ITONICS in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Innovation Platforms

ITONICS, the leading innovation management software provider, has been recognized for the third consecutive year as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Innovation Management Platforms.

In 2025, Gartner spotlights 10 vendors worldwide – down from 12 in 2023. ITONICS continues to stand out by combining comprehensive innovation workflows with a pragmatic approach to AI, enabling organizations to turn innovation into a strategic advantage.

What is the Gartner Market Guide?

Gartner Market Guides provide decision-makers with an overview of a specific technology market, its direction, and key players. Rather than ranking vendors, Market Guides highlight Representative Vendors that Gartner considers most relevant for the category. The 2025 edition of the Market Guide for Innovation Management Platforms identifies the core capabilities, market trends, and emerging technologies that innovation leaders should be aware of. Further insights into customer reviews of the individual vendors mentioned in the Market Guide can be found at Gartner Peer Insights.

Key capabilities of innovation management platforms

Innovation management platforms are no longer "nice-to-have". They are becoming core systems to:

• Sense emerging trends and technologies early
• Generate, capture, and refine new ideas
• Improve decision-making and prioritization
• Manage workflows and measure value realization
• Engage partners and ecosystems effectively
• Unlock organizational insights and IP management
• Enable AI to drive speed, scale, and smarter decisions

Key platform capabilities include gathering insights, developing and defining ideas, assessing opportunities, refining prototypes, scaling execution, and governing the full innovation lifecycle. According to Gartner: "Innovation management platforms support a broad spectrum of innovation activities. While crowdsourcing and managing ideas continue to be the main uses of this technology, buyers are also increasingly looking for trendspotting, roadmapping, external ecosystem partner relationship management, intellectual property (IP) handling and commercialization."

The market itself is consolidating, with a sharper focus on AI-driven capabilities, measurable business impact, and end-to-end integration across ecosystems.

ITONICS has once again been named a representative vendor in the latest Gartner Market Guide for Innovation Management Platforms. It's not a headline for us, but a marker of consistency. We stay focused on delivering sustained value in a market that's evolving fast and consolidating even faster.

Dr. Christian Mühlroth, CEO, 
ITONICS

How ITONICS stands out

While many platforms stop at trend scouting or idea management, ITONICS provides an end-to-end Innovation Operating System:

• From foresight to execution: ITONICS connects trends, technologies, ideas, portfolios, and roadmaps in one system of record.
• Pragmatic AI enablement: Instead of hype, ITONICS integrates AI where it drives tangible outcomes, from automated trend discovery to decision support.
• Scalable governance: Enterprise-ready workflows, permissions, and integrations support innovation leaders across industries.
• Proven with leading innovators: Trusted by companies like adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, Mondelez, Siemens and KPMG to drive faster time-to-market and reduce complexity.
  
  

Trusted by thousands of global users worldwide, ITONICS is the only innovation management software in the world to be recognized by Gartner in 4 different innovation categories in their 2024 Hype Cycle for Innovation Practices.

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