Innovation Management Software - Solution Architecture | IFT's FEI solution architecture is based on the most advanced, web based software platform available for FEI. |  |  |  | | | Our FEI solutions can be deployed individually or combined into a single system, depending on your particular needs. | | | Co-Creation and Insight
IFT's Insight Clubs are an IFT hosted solution provided to customers. This solution requires no technical installation or support by the customer. Read more… | | Outcome Driven Innovation
IFT's Outcome Driven Innovation is a self containing module of our offering that can be hosted or installed in our customer's environment. Read more.... | | Open Innovation
IFT's open innovation solutions encompasses Innovation scouting services and an open innovation portal website fully integrated in a specific configuration of our FEI software platform. Customers may choose to host and support this solution in their own IT environment, or take advantage of IFT's secure application hosting service. Read more… | | Innovation and Idea Management
This solution is based on a standard configuration of our standard FEI software platform, described below. Customers may choose to host and support this solution in their own IT environment, or take advantage of IFT's SaaS offering. Read more… | | FEI Solution Features | | |
Administration and setup
- Multilingual English, French, German. Unicode ready (support of Asian characters)
- Configurable confidentiality levels
- Configurable role based permissions and security rules
- Administrable user profile and rights
- Password protected login and integration with LDAP
- Integration with product development process and portfolio management systems
- Customization of application pages and data model
Patented Correlation
- Automatic prompting of related idea and insight stimuli
- Automatic identification of other correlated users
- Automatic correlation maps
- Automatic cluster maps
Idea Evaluation
- Screening and idea selection
- peer reviews and expert call-ins,
- simple and sophisticated scoring criteria: financial (ROI, NPV, IRR), market, risks, etc..
- Performance dashboards and KPIs
- visualization of the idea portfolio according to multiple dimensions and dash-board types: funnel, matrix, scorecards, etc.
Idea Development
- Document management
- Task management and email notification
- Idea community voting
- Collaborative discussion threads
- Recognition and rewards
- Dashboards and KPIs
Idea Capture
- Configurable idea forms
- Configurable idea workflow automation
- Idea searching and browsing
- Centralized idea bank
Insight Management
- Insight capture forms
- Insight sharing
- Insight connectors to other databases
- Customer feedback analysis
- Centralized insight bank
Open Innovation Portal
- Hosted website, professionally designed to meet your preferred style guide
- Fully integrated with insight and idea capture, development and evaluation capabilities and correlation engine
- Subscriber registration and login
- Email notifications
- Subscriber dashboard and performance metrics
- Subscriber reward mechanisms
Insight Clubs
- Recruiting and setting up online community
- Developing editorial calendar
- Ongoing management of and interaction with community members
- Monthly reports on results and observations
- Final report on results, recommendations and suggestions-- including identification of promising white spaces for innovation.
| | FEI Software Platform Technical Architecture | | | | Our software platform is a single, fully integrated web-based application and relational database, which can be accessed from any web-browser connected to the internet.. It uses a standard three tier architecture to support a web client, a java-based webserver application and a relational database management system. | | |
Database Server
- Oracle 9i or 10g
- Ms SQLServer 2005 or 2008
- MySQL 4.0 or 5.0
Application Server
- Apache or Microsoft IIS webserver
- JBoss 3.2.5 or 4.0, WebSphere 6.0 or 6.1,
- SMTP Compatible Email Server
- Operating Systems : Windows 2003 server, Linux Fedora 5 to 8, Sun Solaris 8, Suse Linux Enterprise 10 (64bits)
PC Client
- Internet Explorer 6.0 +, Firefox 2.5 +
- No additional plug-in needed on client work-station
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