Compare Stormboard vs LeanKit vs IdeaScale

About Stormboard

Make your meetings better!

Set up your meeting beforehand, capture, organize, and discuss ideas in real-time, and then assign tasks and monitor progress in a digital workspace that you can return to again and again.

Built-in templates for Agile, Project Management, and more help streamline your business processes, and all your work can be instantly exported into one of many dynamic reporting options.

Stormboard also works on any device from your 4" phone to an 85" Microsoft Surface Hub.

About LeanKit

Designed for the practical implementation of Kanban, LeanKit is a highly flexible project management platform that lets you visualize your process, collaborate more effectively and identify opportunities for improvement.

Using cards on a virtual whiteboard, LeanKit harnesses the innate human preference for consuming information visually. By creating a visual model of your team’s work and workflow, you gain insight that’s otherwise lost in list-based tools. Our intuitive software provides a single, consolidated view of the work that teams can easily access and interact with across multiple locations, devices and systems.

About IdeaScale

IdeaScale is the largest cloud-based innovation software platform in the world with more than 25,000 customers and 4.5 million users. The software allows organizations to involve the opinions of public and private communities by collecting their ideas and giving users a platform to vote. The ideas are then evaluated, routed, and implemented, making IdeaScale the engine of crowd-powered innovation. IdeaScale’s client roster includes industry leaders, such as Citrix, Marriott Vacations Worldwide, NASA, the New York City Police Department, Princess Cruises and many others.

Features

• API
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Email Integration
• External Integrations
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Project Management

Features

• API
• Calendar Management
• Dashboard
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Data Visualization
• External Integrations
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Scheduling

Features

• 2-Factor Authentication
• API
• Batch Permissions & Access
• Calendar Management
• Contact Management
• Contact Sharing
• Email Integration
• External Integrations
• Gantt Charts
• Google Apps Integration
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Project Management
• Scheduling
• Task Scheduling/Tracking

Summary

• Connect Remote Teams
  Collaborate in realtime or on your own time (synchronously or asynchronously).

• Templates:
  Stormboard models your existing business processes using 'smart' templates.

• Comment on Ideas:
  All ideas have a comment thread allowing your team to clarify, debate and refine ideas.

• Generate & Capture Ideas:
  Quickly add sticky notes, photos and videos to a shared wall. Generate more high quality ideas as everyone can contribute at the same time on their chosen device.

• Prioritize your Ideas:
  Users get 'dots' to vote on their favorite ideas. Instantly see what ideas your team likes and dive deeper on the best ideas.

• Report:
  Instantly generate innovation reports rather than waiting weeks to transcribe a photo of a whiteboard.

Summary

• Stay connected on the go with browser, Android, and iOS apps.

• Create a consolidated view of your work by integrating LeanKit with your existing systems.

• Identify bottlenecks and reduce waste with powerful reporting and analytics.

• Align strategic initiatives with execution with a tiered board approach.

• Work together effectively with built-in collaboration tools.

• Visualize your workflow with flexible Kanban boards.

Summary

• Idea collection and voting

• Build teams around projects and ideas

• Refine ideas into proposals

• Review and prioritize projects for implementation

Pricing

Pricing

• Credit card required: N/A

• Standard Edition - $12 / month / user
  Select Edition - $19 / month / user
  Advanced Edition - $32 / month / user
  Premium Edition - $49 / month / user
  
  Lite Edition is free for up to 3 users. Add more users, more boards and leverage some of LeanKit’s advanced features with LeanKit’s Standard Edition. Upgrade to Select Edition to create nested levels of boards that can be linked together and roll up metrics to one central reporting hub. Get even more features with Advanced and Premium Editions.

Pricing

FAQs

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Primarily Enterprise remote teams looking to share sticky notes and whiteboards.

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes, a full API to get data in and out of Stormboard is available.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Yes. Multiple users can contribute in real-time on any device from anywhere in the world.

What platforms does this service support?

• Stormboard has native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices and works in real-time on any device with a web browser from your 4" phone to your 84" Microsoft Surface Hub.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Yes. We have a great help system and our customer support team is always ready to help when needed.

What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?

• Jira, Asana, Office 365

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• We have a full API and an integration with Zapier to connect to almost any app.

What is this service generally used for?
• • Making meetings more collaborative.
  • Agile, lean, six sigma and continuous improvement projects.
  • Kanban for software development management

FAQs

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profits, Public Administrations, Small Business

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• Our open source integration service coordinates two-way communications with Microsoft Project Server, TFS, and VS Online; as well as GitHub, JIRA, Buildmaster, Oracle Primavera and more. Also, Zapier offers hundreds of pre-built integrations between LeanKit and your favorite web apps, such as Google, Salesforce and Zendesk.

Does this service offer an API?

• LeanKit’s open API gives you the flexibility to configure integrations to meet your organization’s unique needs. SDKs are available for a number of programming languages to enable easy developer access. Our open API also makes it easy to gather the data you need to satisfy specific reporting requirements.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, and Video Tutorials are available to support your initiatives.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Coordinate the flow of work within and across connected teams to improve the delivery of customer value. LeanKit gives all team members and project stakeholders a shared understanding of the work, providing the right level of visibility and detail to track progress and identify potential problems -- even when a project spans multiple teams and boards.

FAQs

What is this service generally used for?

• This service is used to create change either for continuous improvement or net new innovation. It is used on products/services, processes/internal programs, market research or sourcing new markets, and organizational or business model innovation

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• IdeaScale integrates with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Yammer. It integrates with SharePoint, Active Directory, Google for Work (formerly google Apps), Lithium, Google Analytics, OneLogin, Import2 and a robust REST API library.

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• IdeaScale is used by both small and large businesses as well as State, Local, National, and International governments as a crowdsourcing mechanism to access great new ideas, build consensus, and deliver on change initiatives.

What platforms does this service support?

• IdeaScale is a web application that is optimized for use on every mobile device.

What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?

• IdeaScale is used in concert with a host of enterprise products, including project management programs and other web publishing programs.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Yes.

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Yes. Depending on the license level, IdeaScale customers have access to a dedicated Innovation Architect. All users have access to IdeaScale's comprehensive library of resources, knowledge base, and 24/7 chat support.

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