Summer Release 2025

We are pleased to announce our Summer 2025 Product Release. We encourage you to check out our blog to read through the updates and view the list below for high-level changes. If you have any questions on feature availability, reach out to your Customer Success Manager.  

Scaling Innovation Throughout Your Organization

Building upon our existing foundation, we’ve worked hard to refine the innovation tools you rely on daily. We continually enhance and develop our offerings based on your feedback, enabling you to expand your innovation programs and ensure that the best ideas prevail.

As you build upon your foundation and your innovation program scales, we wanted to take a beat to ensure the right features were in place to support your journey. You might be expanding your programs globally, or have pressure to track business impact better; these features are for you:

• Expanded Translation Capabilities: Whether you’re rolling out a challenge across global offices or engaging multilingual teams, Brightidea now offers a seamless in-browser translation service. No heavy integrations, no development delays—just fast, flexible translation support. Contact your Customer Success Manager to request a customized quote or activate a trial.
• Business Impact Overhaul: We’ve completely revamped the business impact UI and added features, making it much more intuitive to use. There’s now a new modern accordion layout making it clear what can be expanded or contracted, with changing input field colors for easy editing. We’ve also updated the “Costs” section to allow switching from free-text to drop-down cost categories, enabling cleaner, more consistent data and finance-friendly reports.
• Updated Google Analytics Integration: Admins can now set Google Analytics 4 (GA4) codes for advanced analytics tracking. GA4 offers enhanced measurement capabilities and utilizes machine learning to fill in data gaps.

Details that Matter...

Just like a sand castle, starting with a foundation before adding the details of brick shapes and spires, we are adding a little bit of everyday magic to refine the foundation of our core platform. Polish makes perfect, which is why we continue to refine the features that our customers interact with daily:

• Reorder Answers on Scorecards: As an admin building a scorecard, you now have the ability to reorder the answers to questions the same way users can on submission forms.
• Idea Codes in Action Items Progress: We now display idea codes in the table for tracking ideas in Development steps, making it easier to find and manage ideas as they progress. Including idea codes helps streamline the process of tracking and managing action items.
• RTE for Action Item Emails: We’ve enabled Rich Text Editing 3.0 (RTE) for Action Item emails. Rich text editor capabilities now include bolding, bulleting, hyperlinks, and other rich elements. ✉️
• Editable Email Templates: We’ve enabled more editable email templates for Pipeline and Action Item emails, offering flexibility over previously hard-coded communications. Admins can now edit and personalize more of the emails that are sent through the platform including: action item reminders, action item escalation notifications, and Advance to Next Step email notification popups.
• Rules Engine Changelog: Admins can now access a history of changes to rules. Export the rules engine changelog to view a version history of changes to rules or see the last person who changed an item.

Our Hackathon Obsession Continues

Building on our Spring 2025 release of Hackathon 5, our goal is to develop the world’s best solution for organizing internal hackathons. Ten times better than the next best option. Here are a few updates to continue to progress toward that goal:

• Updated Registration: We’ve decoupled registration from onboarding for greater flexibility. The enhanced registration process, controlled by the “Event Live” phase, is now more streamlined and user-friendly to boost participation and great to capture interest while the event is “Coming Soon.”
• Onboarding Improvements: Controlled by the Scheduler “submission” phase and broken apart from the registration flow, updates to the onboarding process guides users effortlessly through initial hackathon setup, enhancing adoption rates. We’ve polished the project image screen, updated the complete flow with refined images, titles, and AI enhancements, as well as added expertise within onboarding.
• Scheduler Updates: We have two wonderful updates in the Hackathon Scheduler, including: 1) streamlining the setup wizard by removing the need to set every date/time for each phase of a hackathon. Admins only need to set the event date and the rest will be autofilled for you as a starting point, allowing for faster event setup, and 2) expanding the schedule screen, making it easier to view and configure your entire Hackathon schedule.
• User-Specific Time Zones: You can now set your system to display dates and times according to your users’ time zone. Once enabled, we’ll automatically detect and update time zones on login. Always see your correct local times—no confusion, no conversions. This is extremely important when planning remote hackathons with phases that need to start and stop according to participants' time zones.