Qmarkets FAQs

  • Who is Qmarkets best for - their role(s) within what kind of companies.

    Qmarkets' idea and innovation management software is ideal for global enterprise companies looking to leverage the collective intelligence of their employees, customers, and other stakeholders. The platform is designed to meet the needs of C-suite executives, Chief Innovation Officers, Heads of HR, and all other major corporate decision makers tasked with innovation projects.

    Qmarkets software is available in three unique editions, each tailored to assist enterprises at different stages of their innovation journey.

    Qmarkets' idea management platform is used by enterprise companies from all industries and sectors: finance and banking, insurance, energy, consumer packaged goods, transportation, government authorities and more.

  • How does Qmarkets benefit them?

    Qmarkets' software affords the following benefits:
    • Improved Decision Making - Qmarkets software transforms the way leaders makes decisions by allowing them to leverage collective intelligence or involve a larger audience in the ideation process.

    • Simplified generation of groundbreaking ideas – Whether you want to gather insights from your employees, customers, or other stakeholders, Qmarkets’ software ensures the process is simple and efficient. Users also have the ability to upvote and comment on ideas submitted by other users.

    • Streamlined idea management – Qmarkets makes it easy to collect and evaluate ideas, manage their development and implementation, as well as monitor their ROI.

    • Advanced KPI and ROI reporting features – These allow managers to gain a clear, at-a-glance readout of the progression of innovation campaigns, ensuring that they can be modified and developed with ease.

    • Total flexibility – Qmarkets offers advanced self-admin capabilities, as well as the option to benefit from dedicated configuration experts. The software is designed to be flexible enough to bring just about any innovation vision to life.

    • Employee Engagement Capabilities – The Qmarkets platform allows innovation campaign managers to engage participants via gamification and collaboration.

    • Powerful security and deployment options – Qmarkets offers on-premises deployment of the innovation management system onto your local server, as well as the option to host it on a secure cloud.

  • How technical do users need to be to use Qmarkets's software?

    The system's intuitive design makes the innovation management process smooth and simple. What’s more, users with advanced roles - such as innovation managers and sysadmins – will be provided with clear instructions as to how to take full advantage of all the platform’s features.

    Qmarkets offers complete support to customers to ensure their innovation management system is primed to address their unique requirements. On-premises deployment is also an option, giving customers the ability to run innovation system functions on a dedicated corporate intranet network.

  • What makes Qmarkets a leader in this space?

    A number of factors have contributed to Qmarkets being recognized as a globally-recognized leader in this space. Top Analysts – including Gartner, Forrester, MWD, and Info-Tech – have described Qmarkets’ as a robust, scalable, and highly-configurable innovation solution.

    Qmarkets software offers an end-to-end innovation process, based on more than 10 years of best-practice driven work. The fact that Qmarkets is able to offer services to match the internal innovation cultures of clients – and improve upon them – has also contributed to the company attaining its position as a leader.

    Aside from delivering unmatched functionality and a wide degree of flexibility, Qmarkets has proven to be one of the most scalable platforms on the market. The platform is designed to evolve along with organizations, and empower them with the self-admin capabilities they need to maintain both disruptive and incremental innovation.

  • Who are Qmarkets's biggest competitors (3-5 companies)?

    Spigit, BrightIdea, Planbox

  • How/why is Qmarkets better than those competitors (or most others in their market)? What about Qmarkets is unique, stronger, easier, etc.?

    Our software is optimized for large-scale organizations with sophisticated innovation projects. If you want to implement a company-wide culture of innovation across hundreds of business units with unique workflows or processes tailored to individual requirements, Qmarkets offers powerful features for achieving this. While Qmarkets software is ideally suited to larger organizations, the editions of the platform also make it ideal for smaller companies and departments who want to start small and grow their projects.

    What also sets Qmarkets apart from the crowd is flexibility. Qmarkets can readily work with customers at every stage of the innovation process in multiple locations around the globe.

  • What kind of features can customers expect Qmarkets to release in the near future? And longer term?

    We naturally do not wish to share our internal project roadmap externally. However, as IT Analyst Info-Tech recognized in their industry report, Qmarkets is the trend-setter in the innovation management market. We are continuing to develop cutting-edge features that push the boundary of our industry.

  • Which popular or common software does Qmarkets integrate with?

    Qmarkets can integrate with the following software and systems.
    For User Authentication:

    • SAML

    • SCIM

    • LDAP

    • G-Suite

    For Project Management and PLM
    • JIRA

    • Planview

    • Planisware

    For Enterprise Social Networks

    • Jive

    • Yammer

    • Salesforce

    Portals

    • SAP NetWeaver

    • SharePoint

    Human Resources

    • SAP

    Social Networks

    • Twitter

    • Facebook

    • LinkedIn

    Content Providers

    • CrunchBase

    • TRENDONE

    • Inno360

    Back-end

    • Google Translate

  • Software pricing can often be complex. If it's pretty straightforward, list tiers, pricing (per year, seat, etc) and limits for Qmarkets. If it's not simple, use broad estimates or ranges for typical setups.

    Our pricing varies depending on the product edition, integration requirements, customer's requests, number of users, and deployment model (Cloud/SaaS).

  • Does Qmarkets offer a trial or free download available?

    Because each of our customer's needs are different, we provide bespoke demonstrations that cover exactly how the Qmarkets platform can match unique client requirements. We can then provide a sandbox for more hands-on experimentation, or a pilot for companies who need to demonstrate a proof of concept.

  • Does Qmarkets offer any kind of training/education for their product?

    Qmarkets offers comprehensive customer success services, equipping clients with proven best practices and strategies to ensure their innovation projects yield the continuing results. Qmarkets customer success offerings extend to companies at all stages of the innovation process, from those just launching a new initiative, to those looking to scale-up and optimize existing ones. Additional customer success training and consulting resources are also offered for project leaders, innovation teams, and employees.

  • Describe the implementation process and timeline for Qmarkets software.

    This can vary extensively depending on the unique requirements of customers.

  • What are the Qmarkets support options? List all.

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