Microsoft Office 365 users can seamlessly participate in and contribute to innovation activities while collaborating in Microsoft’s wide-range of office productivity tools

Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, a pioneer in agile innovation management solutions, today announced its integration with Microsoft Office 365’s line of cloud-based productivity applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, among others.

Scaling innovation across the enterprise through Microsoft Office 365’s productivity tools improves innovation program visibility and accessibility, enabling organizations to engage their employees and external stakeholders with ease as innovation activities seamlessly fuse with everyday work. Below are some examples of what users can achieve by integrating Microsoft Office 365 with Planbox: 

  • After connecting Planbox with Outlook, 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 your 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 OneDrive, attach new documents and add a comment to an idea when a new file is added to a designated OneDrive folder.
  • After connecting Planbox with Word, append text to an existing document from new ideas or comments in Planbox.
  • After connecting Planbox with Excel, create spreadsheet rows from new or updated ideas or comments in Planbox.
  • After connecting Planbox with PowerPoint, create presentations from new ideas in Planbox.

“Connecting Planbox and Microsoft Office 365 creates the ultimate powerhouse for employee engagement, increased productivity and enhanced creativity”, said Aleksandra Gutsman, Innovation Solution Consultant at Planbox. “Embedding innovation in day-to-day office applications is a giant leap towards harnessing organizational knowledge, discovering new insights, and finding actionable solutions to tough business challenges by empowering and nurturing a diverse, motivated culture of innovation and agility.”

Visit Planbox’s Microsoft Office 365 integration page to learn more. 

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About Planbox 

Planbox is the pioneering agile innovation management platform software provider for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. Planbox is recognized by Forrester as the top-ranking innovation management platform in the marketplace, having received the highest score in strategy and current offering in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1, 2020. As the most robust and scalable platform on the market, we empower our clients to discover, collaborate and capitalize on the best strategically aligned concepts with their ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, startups, academia, government and the general public to pursue breakthrough innovations, create a sustainable continuous improvement program, build a framework for corporate venturing and action on consumer insights. With over 20 years of domain expertise, 400 enterprise deployments, 5M participants and $10B of realized ROI for customers, Planbox’s AI-powered cloud-based agile innovation solutions accelerate business outcomes for some of the world’s most recognized brands, including Whirlpool, Dow, Novartis, ExxonMobil, Cargill, Bobcat, Honeywell and Sun Life.

In 2020, Planbox acquired IdeaConnection, the best-in-class open innovation platform and expert solver network. IdeaConnection by Planbox provides access to millions of diverse and brilliant minds and a global network of 20,000+ multidisciplinary experts and world-class facilitators in more than 180 countries, with an 80% solve rate for open innovation services such as public and confidential challenges, crowdsourced tech scouting and prior art search.