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Delivering an end-to-end unified idea and innovation management solutionThe modular idea generation and portfolio management suite built on Office 365, edison365 creates the freedom to crowdsource ideas, and the platform to implement them. By leveraging Microsoft Office 365 and harnessing your employees’ insight, edison365 turns your good ideas into great business solutions and services.

edison365ideas is part of the award winning edison365 suite – a unified idea and innovation management solution that turns organisations’ ideas into visible and actionable plans. With a beautiful and engaging interface, easy to use on any device or browser and with zero training, edison365ideas ensures you realise benefits from day one.

A place for every idea

Business objective How edison365ideas helps

Stay competitiveAligns with your business strategy; set challenges based on key objectives, or open ideation up to anyone, anywhere. Provides measurable results for a better understanding of your performance against your business strategy.

Engage employeesThe beautiful UI engages employees to share their ideas and receive direct feedback. The simple intuitiveness of the solution means zero training and instant adoption ensuring employee retention.

Provide better products and services Draws from the insight of every member of staff across multiple departments,to generate rapid enhancements, new solutions and business-wide efficiencies.

Improve the workplace

Harness the power of crowdsourcing and get company-wide feedbackon ideas and in turn employees can be heard and rewarded. Standardises your approach to innovation through a single platform ensuring faster idea generation and implementation.

Leverage existing investmentsDeployed and managed via the cloud, leveraging your existing investment, edison365ideas is built to work entirely on Microsoft Office 365, with data secured in the Office 365 tenant.

Crowdsource ideas Make sure every employee has the chance to be heard with edison365ideas, and reward them for their ideas to maintain higher employee engagement and morale.

Collaborate and develop Anybody can rate an idea and add their own – building the foundations for business progress from the insight of every employee.

Make good ideas great Keep track of every idea in your business – rank and select the best ones to refine them into real proven solutions.

Integrate and extend edison365ideas is built for Microsoft Office 365, so it works with all the applications you are already familiar with – so you can make ideas a reality faster.

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Application Function Benefits with edison365ideas

Office 365 The professional productivity suite

edison365ideas is built on Office 365. Leverage your existing investment and extend your ideation process.

SharePoint Online Content management and document storage

edison365ideas data is stored on the Microsoft tenant in SharePoint online. Store all edison365ideas content for easy business wide access.

Yammer Discussions View the same discussions within edision365ideas or within yammer. Easily switch yammer integration on or off.

Power BI Interactive data visualisation

Create live reports and check real-time statistics for edison365ideas submissions and challenges.Measure the results from developed ideas.Inform future ideation approaches and challenges.

Delve User profile management Immediately see who owns challenges and ideas and find out more about the owner within Delve.

System requirements

Organisational system requirementsOffice 365 SharePoint site collection for edison365ideasYammer Network group for edison365ideas conversations*

End user requirementsA SharePoint Online licenseAccess to SharePoint Online edison365ideas site collectionAccess to the Yammer edison365ideas group*A device with a compatible browser for Office 365

edison365ideas is a real game changer for many customers looking to better manage innovation and unlock business value from Office 365. The edison365 team have taken the time to understand what is happening in the modern customer workplace, and this solution demonstrates their strong capability in a cloud-connected world.

Laura Bouchard, Partner Sales Director, Microsoft

* Optional; only required if conversations are required in edison365ideas

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The modular idea generation and portfolio management suite built on Office 365, edison365 creates the freedom to crowdsource ideas, and the platform to implement them. By leveraging Microsoft Office 365 and harnessing your employees’ insight, edison365 turns your good ideas into great business solutions and services.

edison365projects, the award-winning Microsoft Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution, enables you to seamlessly execute projects through an intuitive, sleek interface. Built on Office 365 and Microsoft Project Online, you can get up and running instantly and deliver measurable outcomes to real business challenges – improving operational efficiency, employee engagement, and competitive advantage.

edison365projects :

• Up and running instantly• No need for customisation• Access anytime, anywhere• Always maintained• Fully scalable

Successfully manage your Project & Resource Portfolio with award-winning edison365projects

End-to-end strategy to execution Add edison365ideas to provide an end to end innovation and portfolio management solution. One solution built entirely on Office 365

Integrate and extend edison365projects datastore provides access to all data and all changes enabling unmatched reporting using your reporting tools of choice. Easily integrate with third party systems such as finance and HR

Extends Project Online Adds sophisticated functionality including portfolio modelling, cost management and integrated Agile task planning as well as support for major methodologies such as PRINCE2® and PMI

Drive rapid adoption and valueBeautiful, easy and ready to use; the award-winning unified PPM solution that empowers your staff instantly

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Everything you need in one solutionedison365projects includes many of your online project requirements:

Portfolio modellingEasily perform ‘What if?’ scenario planning to manage resource demands. Compare multiple scenarios and determine which projects should proceed.

Complete Agile supportManage your projects with both Waterfall and Agile techniques. Full support for Agile is included, with drag and drop task boards.

DataStoreAccess the SQL data store that contains all your latest Project Online and SharePoint data as well as all changes for enhanced reporting, system integration and audit tracking.

Comprehensive management reportingCompletely transform your Project Online reporting, using pre-prepared templates for a range of standard reports such as a status or highlight report at both project and programme level. Use the existing standards, customise them or create your own.

Finance managementManage all project financials in one location including budget, forecast and actuals as well as income, benefits and ROI. Easily integrate costs with your finance system.

Seamless planning Integrated scheduling using Microsoft Project or Project Online. Build and control projects either online or offline with the shared scheduling engine. The familiar UI reduces time spent learning new tools.

Comprehensive device end user accessUse multiple devices to access information; Windows, iOS®, and Android™. Different users can use different devices and different browsers to suit their personal ways of working.

In-built collaborationTemplate site designs for projects and programmes provide extensive built in collaboration features. Use Yammer to discuss each project through the easy to use UI.

Standards and templatesPre-defined standards and templates to support major project lifecycles. Integrate your Project Lifecycle; Schedule; Risk, Issue and Document logs into templates that enable governance and standardisation.

A single source of Portfolio, Project and Resource data

edison365projects is changing the way organisations manage their projects and resources, providing them with the technology and management to drive success.

Laura Bouchard, Partner Sales Director, Microsoft

edison365 is a real game changer...

Gain insight to portfolio performance

Take control of resources and expenditure

Make more informed decisions

Get information at your fingertips

Maximise resources Enable more effective collaboration

System requirements

Organisational system requirementsOffice 365 Project Online site collection for edison365projectsYammer Network group for edison365projects conversations*Requires edison365projects DataStore

End user requirementsA Projects Online licenseAccess to Projects Online edison365projects site collectionAccess to the Yammer edison365projects group*A device with a compatible browser for Office 365

* Optional; only required if conversations are required in edison365projects

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