Innovation Built Into Every Tool You Use

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Planbox and Your Tools, Working Together

Planbox has out of the box integrations with most of the tools your team uses everyday.

Planbox has developed hundreds of quick connectors so that innovation is a part of your everyday work – from interactions in popular tools (such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Google Drive, Dropbox and SharePoint) to work performed in more niche enterprise solutions (such as reward management and startup matching).

Many of these apps can be quickly and easily activated using Planbox Integration settings while reviewing our short instructional videos.

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Anytime, Anywhere

Our mission is to immerse Planbox in all of the tools you use everyday so that you can innovate anytime and anywhere without ever having to stop what you are doing. Planbox will be where you are – when you are inspired or when you have an innovation task to complete.

Task Automation, Collaboration and Reporting

Effortlessly integrate Planbox with the business and personal applications you love to automate routine tasks and streamline workflows.

With just a few clicks, Planbox offers users the freedom to connect their favorite apps to the Agile Innovation Management platform, empowering them to effortlessly streamline their workflows and facilitate the flow of information between applications without coding or requiring developers to build custom integrations.

The tools that many find useful to connect to Planbox include:

Implementing a single sign-on solution for your Planbox platform allows your audience to participate in your innovation activities with the minimum effort possible. Planbox supports SAML 1.1 and 2.0 protocols.

Create ideas automatically based on the email content the moment an email is sent to a designated account, while reminders in your calendar are automatically created for your challenge’s start and end dates and other key innovation events and milestones.

Integration of Planbox with intranet/extranet portal solutions such as SharePoint offers the possibility to make your innovation management system securely and immediately accessible as part of your internal or external web portals, your users can participate in your innovation activities without leaving the portal, users are not required to separately log into Planbox which increases the opportunity for engagement, and increases the visibility of your innovation program.

Upload documents in Planbox or browse and link to documents that are securely stored in document management systems such as Google Drive, Dropbox and SharePoint.

Planbox integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams so that your users can participate in and collaborate on innovation activities directly from your favorite messaging tool. Create ideas, comment, vote, or change the status of an idea and get notifications for any updates in your innovation portal.

Planbox can import skill information from your HR solution to search for subject matter experts, idea evaluation, mentoring and concept development. User innovation activity can also be automatically exported to your HR solution so you can evaluate your employee’s contributions to your innovation success.

Turn won opportunities in CRM tools like Salesforce into ideas in Planbox to explore how else you can benefit from the newly won customer. You can also turn lost opportunities into ideas on what improvements you can make in your processes or offerings and lessons learned.

Planbox’s visual workflow-driven innovation portfolio management module (Portfolio Central) is used to evaluate, plan, seek funding approval and initiate innovation projects that can then be exported into your PPM solution for enterprise project planning and management.

Create projects or tasks from ideas, assign and track work to evaluate and develop an idea all with a single click to action information exchange between Planbox and project and work management tools such as Asana and Monday.com.

Automatically export ideas, canvas cards, innovation tasks and other data to Google Sheets or other reporting/data analytics tools for further data analysis and reporting.

Planbox is fully integrated with Zapier, an online automation tool that connects popular web applications empowering you to effortlessly streamline your workflows and facilitate the flow of information between Planbox and other applications without coding or requiring developers to build custom integrations.

You can set up a few keywords to automatically turn relevant tweets into new ideas or add the tweets as comments to an existing idea.

Automatic Information Discovery

Planbox offers an Auto Information Discovery module that continuously searches internal and external data sources you have access to, tapping into all available information and the wisdom of the crowd instantly and on an ongoing basis to discover opportunities, uncover potential problems, identify key insights and find relevant information for a focus area through pattern analysis and machine learning.

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Automatic information discovery, idea creation and article linking functions serve dual purposes. First, they snapshot and capture the existing body of knowledge which is helpful in IP creation and defense. Auto-curated articles and ideas also provide participants with relevant content to collaborate and build on, increasing engagement and serving as a spark to finding new focus areas, solutions and possibilities.

Private Data Sources

  • Chat and collaboration applications such as Yammer, Slack, and Microsoft 365
  • Customer relationship management (CRM) leads, opportunities, chats, and comments
  • Document storage and management systems such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box.com, Amazon Drive, SharePoint, and Microsoft OneDrive
  • Secure filtering and import of support emails and discussions stored in Outlook, Gmail, and other IMAP compatible email systems.

Public and Social Data Sources

  • Social network content such as Twitter feeds
  • RSS feeds and searchable content such as TechCrunch, Mashable, and Google News
  • Business networking content such as LinkedIn group feeds
  • Patent databases in USA (USPTO), Canada and other jurisdictions

Make Innovation Part of Everyday Work

Discover how your team can innovate anytime and anywhere while using the tools they love.

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