Best Innovation Software for Linux of 2025

DirectSuggest is an award-winning employee suggestion box app most recently named Corporate LiveWire’s 2023 Innovation & Excellence Awards ‘Specialist Employee Service of the Year’, and coined ‘The Next Slack’ by HR Tech Daily. Our mission is to easily, affordably, and effectively enable any employee in any organization to use their voice to move the mission of their organization forward and make the world a better place. DirectSuggest streamlines the employee feedback process so employees can be easily heard and their company can effectively leverage their collective knowledge. We make it simple for employees to make suggestions on any device surrounding company created categories with the assurance they automatically arrive to the proper decision-maker. Every employee can also collaborate on suggestions via voting and commenting to enhance the quality of ideas. DirectSuggest only costs $0.50 per employee per month, and we have incredibly high ROI/Savings potential with an average 33X return on investment. The implementation process is also quite easy, and normally upon being committed and properly prepared to do so, setting up DirectSuggest from start to finish can be completed in as quickly as a week or less.

Yumana is the all-in-one innovation management platform built for medium and large enterprises. It helps Innovation Directors, launch, manage, and scale programs that transform ideas into measurable results. The platform centralizes everything in one place to oversee innovation portfolios, scout and evaluate startups, and orchestrate partner ecosystems with ease. Yumana also goes beyond innovation teams. HR, operations, and sustainability leaders rely on it to foster a “Happy to Copy” culture, and engage employees in continuous improvement. Designed to grow with your business, Yumana adapts to your structure, integrates with your tools, engages global teams, and automates what matters most. This makes it possible to deliver stronger outcomes and faster ROI while connecting the entire innovation ecosystem. Trusted by industry leaders such as L’Oréal, Michelin, Airbus, Safran, and VINCI, Yumana unlocks the full potential of your innovation ecosystem.

Sideways 6 helps you find and bring to life the best ideas for your business. Our platform seamlessly integrates with the tools that your employees already love (such as Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Workplace by Meta,...), allowing for faster adoption and instant ideas. Get a demo today to see why more than 4 million employees of companies like Rio Tinto, British Airways, Vodafone and AstraZeneca have chosen the Sideways 6 approach.

IamIP’s patent software is a web-based platform that allows you to centrally manage and search all published patents around the world. It's easy to use, secure, and secure. Search: Perform searches on patents like a patent examiner, with direct access to the patent office's register. Perform full text searches etc. Share: Create an area for your colleagues to work during a project. R&D can be involved in the review process, for example. Monitor your patents and those of your organization. Share documents with the platform and it will remind you to provide feedback. Legal Status: Monitor patents and follow the legal developments.

Innovation is at the heart of becoming Future-Fit. Our end-to-end innovation management platform and services empower medium and large-sized organizations to become more adaptive, creative, and resilient. Planbox helps you turn creative ideas into winning projects and integrate everyday tools to collaborate smarter with your community of employees, customers, partners, startups, governments, academia, and expert solvers. Planbox has offices in Canada, UK, and USA, with customers around the world in over 140 countries.

Idea Drop, a cloud-based platform for idea management, allows you to capture and act on the best ideas of others. Idea Drop is ideal to mid-sized businesses. Idea Drop features include campaign management and idea submission portal. Collaboration tools, analytics, analytics, and curation are all available. Idea Drop's idea submission allows users to capture ideas from different teams using customizable forms. Idea Drop allows users to launch campaign ideas based on business challenges.