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Vorteile

I appreciate the well-rounded approach to the platform. Once the back-end has been set up (admins), it's very intuitive for users, making adoption much easier. Most of the other options we demoed were strictly limited to idea submission and organization - great from the basic user standpoint. Edison does a much better job of thinking about how admins and challenge owners operate and makes the back-end processes simple (walking an idea from submission through execution).

One stand-out function that is not available on many other platforms is the ability to save an idea as a "draft." If you have an "aha moment" and want to jot it down quickly, but don't have time to flesh it out immediately, this is very helpful.

Nachteile

It lacks the ability to turn categories on/off for different challenge types. All categories are automatically available across the entire company. This can be a problem if you have very different subject areas targeted by specific challenges. Note that categories are a REQUIRED field to include in the build for an idea submission, so this cannot even be turned completely off at the idea submission level.

The reporting functionality is great, but note that any custom edits to the Edison Ideation platform, such as new fields for idea submission, require custom editing of the template PowerBI report. It does not auto-update. Adding the custom fields is not immediately intuitive if you are not already familiar with PowerBI software.

The triage feature is great, but limited. Different metrics can be assigned to different challenge types, however, they are accessible in every stage gate of the challenge and cannot be toggled on/off for specific stage gates. This can be annoying if an idea is only meant to be triaged in one stage gate, e.g., "review" vs. "awarded."

The idea submission form format cannot be edited (dimensions, orientation, text color, font, etc.), limiting customization.