We’re excited to announce that Ideawake has moved from position #7 to position #3 in G2’s Idea Management software category and earned seven badges in G2’s Summer 2026 report, highlighting our dedication to continuously building an easy to use, easy to administer platform that customers love.
G2 rankings and badges are calculated from verified customer reviews vs. analyst opinions, which means every badge below reflects what customers actually experience when they run an innovation or improvement program on Ideawake. Thanks to all of you who took time to support us and being a part of this amazing milestone!
Summer 2026 Badges – Enterprise Category
Here’s a summary of the badges Ideawake earned for the Summer of 2026:
- Easiest to Do Business With
- Easiest Setup
- Easiest to Use
- Best Meets Requirements
- Best Usability
- Easiest Admin
- High Performer
The Driver Behind Our Ratings – Our Amazing Team and The 2020 Rewrite
Based on over 1,000 interviews from innovation and improvement leaders, we identified fundamental shortcomings in how idea management systems across the market were designed that made them:
- Too complex to onboard and train Administrators and Subject Matter Experts for enterprise use cases
- Clunky to manage as programs began to scale past 500 – 1,000 ideas
- Not flexible after campaigns were launched, resulting in hours of workarounds instead of a few clicks to update a field or scoring criteria
We took that feedback and instead of trying to modify our existing platform, we rewrote Ideawake from line one in 2020 as a CRM to manage innovation instead of a challenge management system.
Although it seemed risky at the time, five years later this direction clearly paid off – highlighted by our recent accolades and where Ideawake now sits on the G2 Grid (see below). Thanks again to all of you for your support and look forward to continuing to work together to build the best idea and innovation management platform on the market!
