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DirectSuggest's award-winning employee suggestion box app streamlines the employee feedback process so employees can be easily heard and their company can effectively leverage their collective knowledge. We make it simple for employees to make suggestions on any device surrounding company created categories with the assurance they automatically arrive to the proper decision-maker. Every employee can also collaborate on suggestions via voting and commenting to enhance the quality of ideas. DirectSuggest only costs $0.50 per employee per month, and we have incredibly high ROI/Savings potential with an average 33X return on investment. The implementation process is also quite easy, and normally upon being committed and properly prepared to do so, setting up DirectSuggest from start to finish can be completed in as quickly as a week or less.

Keep your team's minds in sync with Miro (formerly RealtimeBoard and AWW app). A virtual whiteboard and remote collaboration tool, Miro helps cross-functional teams work more efficiently together to build great things. The platform allows teams to ideate, visualize, and share ideas without any boundaries. It comes with over 200 pre-made templates for capturing and visualizing ideas, collaboration tools such as comments, chat, screen sharing, and video chat, and integrations with popular business tools. Miro AI. You and your team, supercharged. You're here to create the next big thing and we're here to help. Unlock the power of your ideas with Miro AI – your new launchpad for creativity, collaboration, and productivity.

Managing innovation at a large company is never easy. With endless stakeholders to align, data to process, and pressure to deliver results, it’s easy to fall into the trap of innovation theatre—initiatives that look good but fail to deliver real value. At Qmarkets, we help you break that cycle. We give you the tools, methodology, and expert support to build a next-gen innovation funnel that delivers continuous scalable impact. Whether you’re unlocking strategic challenges, scouting startups, enhancing ideas, or tracking impact, our platform helps you manage every stage of the journey — and prove ROI all along the way. This is what we call Impact-Driven Innovation — and it’s how we help leading enterprises make every innovation count. With clients like Ford, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and Nestle, we bring decades of experience building innovation programs that thrive on disruption, embrace efficiency, and strengthen resilience at every turn.

innosabi is for those who believe that better is always possible. For those who seek to push boundaries, embrace innovation, and shape the future of their industries. At innosabi we provide the platform that makes this mindset a reality. Built to adapt. Designed to scale. Engineered for those exploring, engaging with, and embedding innovation. Our Innovation Management Platform (IMP) enables customers to drive innovation. Organizations like Coca-Cola, Lufthansa, BASF, NASA and the U.S. Air and Space Forces rely on innosabi to accelerate progress and create a lasting impact. Our platform works around your needs, seamlessly integrating into existing workflows while offering enterprise-grade security, compliance, and scalability. With dedicated support and a user-first approach, we ensure that innovation flows effortlessly. As we are now part of Collaboration.AI, the products integrate more agent-based AI capabilities and graph-based intelligence.

Yumana empowers Innovation Directors to design, launch, and scale programs with ease. Our AI-powered, no-code platform brings together everything required to manage portfolios, identify and evaluate startups, and coordinate entire partner ecosystems within a single environment. Its impact reaches far beyond innovation teams. HR, operations, and sustainability leaders use the platform to replicate best practices and engage employees in continuous improvement. Built to evolve alongside your organization, the platform adapts to complex structures, connects global teams, integrates seamlessly with existing tools, and automates key processes. The result: faster ROI, greater engagement, and stronger outcomes at scale. Global leaders including L’Oréal, Michelin, Airbus, Safran, and VINCI already trust Yumana to turn ideas into measurable impact. Discover how your organization can do the same. Join the Yumana community!

Drive business success through employee ideas with Sideways 6, the revolutionary idea management software native to Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, Interact and Workplace by Meta. Running ideas programs at scale can be difficult to execute with impact. Our solution makes it easy for companies to gather and organize employee ideas ensuring that no great idea goes unnoticed. Our platform allows companies to quickly and easily assess the potential of each idea and make informed decisions for maximum impact whilst engaging employees. By using Sideways 6, businesses experience a significant increase in resource efficiency (£12m saved and 101k hours saved by Balfour Beatty in 2022 alone), productivity (Nestle ideated 155 new products to take to market), and engagement (16% increase in employee engagement at DXC). Find out why the likes of Rio Tinto, British Airways, Vodafone and Marks and Spencer trust the Sideways 6 approach.

UMT360’s Strategic Portfolio Management solution provides the critical portfolio management capabilities that most organizations are currently missing. UMT360 ensures that the right top-down business planning and controls are in place to help you model and analyze all aspects of your portfolios, align all investments with strategy and accelerate business transformation. Our unique approach helps clients incrementally deploy the specific capabilities needed to attain visibility, gain insight and establish the enterprise connections needed to improve decision-making and accelerate business transformation. Key capabilities include: • Governance Controls Across Any Portfolio • Demand & Innovation Management • Budgeting & Forecasting • Resource Utilization & Management • Outcome Management • Strategic Portfolio Analysis • Roadmapping & Release Management • Business Intelligence & Metrics

IamIP’s patent software provides a secure, easy to use web-based platform for centrally managing and searching all published patents worldwide. Search: Perform patent searches like a patent examiner with direct connection to patent offices' register. Perform full text searches etc. Share: Create a working space for your colleagues during a project. For example, involve R&D for review. Monitoring: Set up patent monitoring for yourself and the organization. Share documents and the platform will remind the user to provide feedback. Legal Status: Monitor individual patents & follow the legal development.

Managing innovation is not an easy task without the proper tools and expert guidance. Innovation programs must be executed properly to be successful. NOVA-INNOVATE, Innovation Management Software is the newest addition to the Novatek Suite of Software Solutions. By providing a patented comprehensive, configurable rules-based engine, NOVA-INNOVATE accelerates the ideation process to allowing you to choose the best ideas faster. NOVA-INNOVATE software is a powerful tool that aids in producing a sustainable and agile innovation process. With NOVA-INNOVATE senior managers could have the right metrics to measure the success of their innovation programs. NOVA-INNOVATE helps establish key performance indicators to measure that success. There is a clear correlation between innovation and growth.

Business Process Management Software (BPMS) & BPM Workflow Automation Tool. Companies need workflow, forms, compliance, and automation routing support. Our low-code options make creating + editing workflows simple. Our best-in-class forms capabilities, make it possible to rapidly build forms, forms logic, and workflows for forms-driven workflow processes. Companies have many existing systems in place that need to work with each other. Our business process integrations across systems are loosely-coupled + intelligently integrated. When you use FlowWright to automate your business, you gain access to standard metrics and metrics that you define. BPM analytics are a key part of any BPM workflow management software solution. FlowWright can be deployed as a cloud solution or deployed in an on-premise or .NET hosted environment (including AWS and Azure). It was built in .NET Foundation C# code and all tools are fully browser-based, requiring no plug-ins.