OVERVIEW OF IDEASTRACKER V2.5

IdeasTracker is a fast, effective, and easy-to-use web-based solution for businesses to manage their ideas, knowledge and information, from anywhere on the planet. IdeasTracker offers a simple, yet robust solution which can be customised to your company's specific business needs.

When your business uses IdeasTracker you can:

• Gather cost saving and revenue generating ideas from staff, and follow through on the implementation of these ideas
• Peer review ideas
• Share ideas for risk management between different branches and country offices, multiplying savings and earnings many times over
• Create a knowledge database of processes and best practices, accessible to all branches and team members
• Discover and evaluate your most creative staff by the number of financially beneficial ideas they generate
• Give kudos and recognition to employees who really perform
• Engage your customers and capture their feedback and opinions
• Store metadata with document types of any kind

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Each employee has access to IdeasTracker, and they can add an idea, reply to someone else's idea, track ideas through the implementation process, view and create knowledge and view company news.

An administrator is required to:

• Approve user accounts
• Prepare ideas for moderation and evaluation by whoever is responsible in your company.

WHERE IS IT STORED?

IdeasTracker runs on a server - either yours or one at an ISP - which means it can be available anywhere in the world, or just in your company. You can also run IdeasTracker on one computer if you set your computer up to run like a server - in this instance you can use IdeasTracker to track your own ideas and organise your knowledge.

IdeasTracker is developed in PHP and works in Linux and Microsoft environments on a wide range of servers - view the installation specifications here. It works out-of-the-box with MySQL. It's relatively easy to customise it to other databases - contact us to find out how.

The code is triple-key encrypted, but the overall security depends on how you choose to host it. Being a web-based application your server security is important. Check with your host or IT department for the optimum solution.

Recent estimates show [that] 85 percent of a company's information remains inaccessible (StorageTek; Merrill Lynch).