G Suite enterprise users can seamlessly collaborate on innovation activities while working in popular tools like Gmail, GDrive, GDocs and GSheets

Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, the top-ranking agile innovation management platform provider, today announced its integration with Google’s suite of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools. This integration makes it easy for organizations to increase company wide engagement across all innovation campaigns directly via Google Mail, Calendar, Drive, Docs and Sheets, among other G Suite applications.

“Embedding innovation into G Suite eliminates collaboration silos by providing much greater visibility into all of your organization’s innovation campaigns, activities and success stories,” said Aleksandra Gutsman, Innovation Solutions Consultant at Planbox.

G Suite users can easily participate in innovation activities without having to leave the office apps they use everyday, for example:

  • After connecting Planbox with Gmail, ideas are created automatically based on the email content the moment an email is sent to a designated account; you can also set up alerts to create an idea from an email when certain keywords or phrases appear in an email’s subject or body.
  • After connecting Planbox with Google Calendar, reminders are automatically created for your challenge’s or innovation event’s start and end dates and any other key milestones and reminders you have set up in Planbox.
  • After connecting Planbox with Google Drive, attach new documents and add a comment to an idea when a new file is added to a designated G Drive folder.
  • After connecting Planbox with Google Docs, append text to an existing document from new ideas or comments in Planbox.
  • After connecting Planbox with Google Sheets, create spreadsheet rows from new or updated ideas or comments in Planbox.
  • After connecting Planbox with Google Slides, create presentations from new ideas in Planbox.

Planbox also integrates with Google Translate, which is seamlessly embedded in the agile innovation management solution, effectively eliminating any language barrier your organization may have with its various stakeholders located in different regions. “This integration greatly improves accessibility for your innovation ecosystem as all content is translated automatically and in real-time based on the user’s preferred language. “Google Translate makes instant collaboration across geographies an effortless task for organizations looking to make their innovation initiatives more diverse and inclusive to global communities,” said Gutsman.

Visit Planbox’s G Suite integration page to learn more. 

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About Planbox: 

Planbox is the pioneering cloud-based AI-powered agile innovation management platform trusted by some of the world’s most recognized brands, including Blue Cross, Cargill, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobil, Honeywell, John Deere, Novartis, Ontario Power Generation, Sun Life Financial, Whirlpool and Verizon, with millions of internal and external users. By leveraging a single system of record for innovation, its clients have built an agile innovation management capability that allows companies to innovate consistently and experiment cost-effectively within its ecosystem of employees, customers, strategic partners, universities, virtual net-works of R&D problem solvers, entrepreneurs and startups. Planbox’s Agile Innovation Management Suite is a modular platform for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. The AI engine mines your data for insights while your community collaborates to discover, develop and capitalize on the best strategically aligned ideas within your ecosystem of employees, customers, partners, academia and startups. Planbox accelerates business outcomes by pursuing breakthrough innovations, creating a sustainable continuous improvement program, building a framework for corporate venturing and actioning on consumer insights.