Jive Software has now released their new plugin called Ideation. It is an idea storming application to be used directly within your communities. We have been seeking the perfect idea storming application for some of our various communities and there are several things that I like about this one.
1. It sits directly inside of your community as a new tab. Many idea storming solutions are hosted outside of the community.
2. It is implemented as a plugin so it does not require any customization to your base application.
3. It has all of the components of a full blown idea storming application to bring your community driven ideas to fruition.
4. If you are already a customer of Jive Software, the cost for the implementation is similar to most of thier other add-on modules – about $20,000.
For now I am posting the pdf file provided by Jive Software which goes over the high level conceptualization of idea storming. I am also providing the link to the 45 minute recorded webex presentation provided by Jive Software.
Webex Presentation of Ideation
Other enterprise level idea storming applications we have looked at were as follows:
1. Salesforce.com which was quoted to us at around $100,000.
2. Lithium technologies which also does well with this application – but you need to be on Lithium for your communities to use this.
3. Jira has idea storming built in; however, this is in a project management / bug tracking application – not the community which is where it would be most useful. Atlassian would benefit by placing this application inside of Confluence instead.
Now that we have been able to kick the tires some, we give the Jive Software Ideation plugin two thumbs up.
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