Qmarkets

What Qmarkets is

Qmarkets is an innovation management platform for large and mid-sized organizations that want to turn ideas into measurable outcomes. Its product areas include idea management, continuous improvement, strategic foresight and trends, technology scouting, and innovation portfolio management. Iris, its AI layer, supports clustering, enrichment, agent analysis, and expert matching, with Qmarkets saying users can inspect the reasoning behind outputs. Organizations can configure workflows, evaluation criteria, submission forms, roles, permissions, terminology, and multiple workspaces. Integrations include Microsoft Teams, Jira, Power BI, SharePoint, SAP, Okta, Zapier, SAML 2.0, SCIM, REST API, and webhooks. Deployment can use AWS or Azure cloud hosting or on-premise Windows or Linux environments. Qmarkets says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, supports multi-factor authentication, and is stored in a customer-selected region. It states ISO 27001 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications across its operations. Pricing is quote-based, depends on product, plan, users, integrations, and add-ons, and includes an annual-license setup fee.

Who it suits

It is aimed at large and mid-sized organizations, including innovation, strategy, R&D, digital transformation, IT, process improvement, and HR teams. It suits organizations needing configurable workflows, idea evaluation, and multiple hosting choices.

Limits

The Core plan supports up to 1,000 users, includes limited AI credits per quarter, and allows one additional system language. The strategic enterprise plan includes up to 30 power users and 60 collaborators; external-facing challenges and the startup database are premium add-ons.

Getting started

1. Open the Qmarkets website
2. Choose a product family and plan for a quote
3. Select cloud hosting on AWS or Azure, or on-premise deployment
4. Configure users, integrations, workflows, and add-ons with Qmarkets
5. Launch the annual license with its setup fee

Verdict

Qmarkets covers idea programs, strategic innovation, and portfolio work with configurable processes and hosting. Its quote-based pricing and setup fee mean buyers need to scope users, products, integrations, and add-ons before purchase.