Yambla Reviews

Thinking together about innovation made easy

Comments: Very affordable, intuitive tool that enables communication across departments and locations, with images and text supporting each other. A tool that is very convenient for all users ( the employee, the community manager, the client) to work with. Submitting an idea, evaluating and reading an idea, initiating interaction and getting the overview are all perfcet provided in the tool.

Pros:

The ease with which the tool can be implemented on my clients' internal communication tools. The ease with which I can do my job as community manager.The overview and reporting provided at the conclusion of the call.The intuitive way of working with the tool, which makes it very easy for anyone to use all the features of Yambal to submit an idea, read and review other ideas.

Cons:

I have had no negative experiences so far when using Yambla

Great platform to engage your innovation community

Comments: Great experience that engaged our innovation community from Beijing to Vancouver.

Pros:

It is the whole package of software flexibility and customer service through their customer success manager as this is a software as a service, lots of capabilities are offered. So almost everthing is possible but need to make sense in the context, so that translation of software capabilities and context knowledge is great with this offering.

Cons:

Some of the features were early stage and we were also experimenting with new workflows and innovation flows, challenging a little but this platform but again worked out very well, so small hick ups in some of output reports , but a company that learn fast.

Transparency to the innovation process

Comments: We have been satisfied with the tool and all of our customer specific configurations were deployed smoothly. Yambla has had a positive contribution in making our innovation process transparent.

Pros:

Everyone is able to share an idea, you can create different kind of challenges, you can easily see the status of your ideas, and you will get very good support from the Yambla contact person

Cons:

Some users say the UI is a little bit cluttered (too many features maybe).

State of the art, easy to use and highly customizable innovation platform

Comments: We use Yambla mainly to collect the best ideas and find the most fitting candidates for our innovation programs. All suiting candidates for our programs get access to the platform and can upload new ideas for the program or staff themselves on other existing teams. We can manage this whole process, can rate every idea and manually give feedback to every team. Through Yambla, we can integrate the candidates perfectly in our recruiting process. It is now in their hands - they can find their suiting team for the program and upload as many ideas as they want. This not just saves us a lot of time, it as well improves the quality of ideas and teams a lot.

Pros:

What I most like about the Yambla platform is the possibility to highly customize the platform for every event. We already used it for completely different purposes, but with the opportunity to choose every ideation process step manually for every occasion, we could create precisely the ideation/collaboration surrounding that has fit most to our needs. What also has have to be mentioned is the excellent customer support. Especially in the setup phase, we had to implement a lot of customized features, but the support always finished in time and with extra help.

Cons:

A few basic features like an integrated tutorial for new users are still missing (but I know that the team is already working on it).

Admin & User-Friendly Ideation Platform

Comments: Yambla allowed to take a bottom up approach to improving our business. Users have a voice with the product that might otherwise not be heard. We met with the management team monthly to review all the ideas submitted that also met certain support criteria. Those ideas we would implement. Tracking everything in Yambla was easy as well.

Pros:

Yambla is a great product and we looked at quite a few competitors before going with Yambla. We like the ease of use out-of-the-box, with minimum configuration required. We were up and running in a few days. With other products there was a lot of implementation time that was required, and the products just had too many options. It was almost like implementing something like SharePoint. All we wanted to do was track ideas. So Yambla fit perfectly for us. From an employee perspective, they like getting recognized for their ideas. Also, for every implemented idea, we pay them a small amount. Implementing Yambla has been a great success. Also, Yambla supports single-sign-on, so the users would be able to access the platform instantly.

Cons:

Nothing comes to mind. We never had any outages. Also the support team was excellent and would reach out to us promptly if I had questions.

Yambla is a great tool to stimulate and leverage collective intelligence

Comments: Yambla helped us to engage our collaborators on innovation, to empower them to find solutions to problems, and to make them active participants of our business transformation by to turning issues into opportunities. Thanks to the platform and its animation, we started to think together about creative solutions to real problems, we developed a collaborative process to leverage on the multiple expertise, kx and experiences of the organization. Yambla is user-friendly and great to use, our innovation community shared more than 500 ideas via the platform and much more opinions via Likes or Comments.

Pros:

The user-friendliness and the service and flexibility of the support team

Cons:

The tool is fantastic for ideation, it can still be improved for innovation funnel management

Among the ideas management tools, there is Yambla

Comments: Yambla is used in our company to amplify collaborative innovation, by encouraging employees, across all departments, to think about many challenges, both in terms of operational excellence and the development of new products and services. Through competitions, we mobilize employees, allowing them to give free rein to their creativity, while ensuring consistency with the desired strategic objectives.

Pros:

- Rigorous structure and principles, but consistent and easy to use - Complete management of the life cycle of ideas (from genesis to death). - Strong in community engagement. - Reliable tool

Cons:

- Analytics may be too limited in some cases. - For a business administrator, Yambla must be "practiced" in order to be able to use it to its full potential; it is not always self-explanatory

Great Hackathon tool !

Comments: Great partner to work with, easy to use and amazing customer success team.

Pros:

Turnkey solution to holding an internal hackathon at our company, quickly and easily integrated with our SSO and allowed engineers worldwide to have some fun and innovate. With everyone working remotely it was essential that we use the YAMBLA platform this time exclusively for ideation and the hack day submissions. Customer Success was amazing and worked with us daily at times to ensure the success of our event.

Cons:

Some challenges getting all the engineers to submit the right materials at each stage

Best platform on the market

Comments: Yambla helped the organisation I woeker for at that time to implement remote working. A big step at that time. When Covid happened, it was the fact that the implementation allready happened before, they could stay operational and even win several huge clients during this crisis.

Pros:

The userfriendlyness, the excellent clientservice

Cons:

Nothing I can remember. It is a very easygoing and userfriendly platform.

Yambla as an Ideation platform

Comments: It was a clear enabler and accelerator for an internal futureproof project where the main goal was ideation (to enable innovation).

Pros:

The social aspect and the accessibility of the platform are a big advantage. We used it in a diverse organisation with both white collar and blue collar collaborators, so ease of use is keen. The platform enabled us to gather ideas from the complete organisation.

Cons:

Nothing to dislike during the time we used the platform

Awesome tool, maximum engagement

Pros:

Yambla is the perfect tool to tap into the creative and innovative potential of the organisation. It creates maximum engagement on idea development by offering an effortless UI. Also, it contains all the analytics needed to demonstrate results!

Cons:

The tool itself is great and does all that it should. It is however essential to thoroughly design your innovation funnel before deployment to ensure maximum impact

Innovate faster with Yambla

Comments: Wonderful team at Yambla that cares as much about innovation as we do (and maybe even more!)

Pros:

Great for ideation and create a framework for innovation. Used Yambla for several iterations of our hackathons. every iteration we tried a different format and all was supported and powered by Yambla. Our participants loved it.

Cons:

Could use best practice templates to customize without extra help from Yambla

The ease of using Yambla!

Comments: Great innovation tool!The additional 'free' support we got from [SENSITIVE CONTENT] really made the difference compared to any other tools. She just didn't support with the tool itself, but helped thinking on how to make this working for us.

Pros:

It is a very easy to use tool.You can use the standard process or define define steps within the whole innovation process according to your needs and preferred way of working.

Cons:

I liked the possibility of using campaigns (hackatons), but unfortunately this was not so easy to setup by ourselves. We needed quite some support to be able to make it as we wanted.

Solid idea creation platform with fantastic support from Yambla team

Pros:

ease of use, clean and intuitive UX design, flexible UX design, ongoing support of a success manager, lack of useless features that increase the pricing in other cases, social aspects and people engagment features (commenting on others ideas/ sharing/ liking) a real game-changer is a auto-translate feature that enables cooperation of multilanguage teams in the same environment with content (comments, ideas) translated into the user's own language

Cons:

maybe a lacking customization of communication/ update messages (email messages) from the platform level, however done semi-manually by a success manager, so everything went smoothly

Great software for collaborative ideation!

Pros:

- perfectly applicable for decentralized ideation challenges - connects members/employees to jointly develop ideas - provides tools and spaces for actively working together - guides through the process of rating and selecting the best ideas - easy administrateable

Cons:

- finding other members on the platform can be improved - some minor changes to the front-end needed

Used Yambla to gather innovative ideas within the company

Comments: We used Yambla a few years ago to set up an crowdsourced ideation program. The program wasn't scaled further due to other priorities and resource constraints.

Pros:

We selected Yambla because of the social approach to innovation, very easy to use, simple to understand for users (vs more complex innovation management platforms). Integration was quick, we were able to customize the flow easily to our process and received very good support from the Yambla team.

Cons:

Focus is less on innovation management (funnel, process tracking)- there's a basic version of that through the project status flow, but the strength of Yambla is in the social ideation.

Yambla

Comments: Good

Pros:

Data organization, team visibility, data exportability into XL.

Cons:

Not very intuitive to use unless somebody explains it. Once explained it's easier. Useful functionality is deep inside product rather than showing up on top