Instant adoption
Fully native to Microsoft Teams, get 70% more ideas right away by engaging your team on a tool they use every day.
Simplified process
Easily manage more ideas—gather submissions, prioritise, and track progress—all within Microsoft Teams.
Business impact
Create shared ownership, generate new revenue, save time and costs and increase employee engagement.
Initiate campaigns focused on key business or team challenges. Customize campaign questions to improve idea quality and streamline workflows for a smoother process.
💡 Launch always-on, or time-bound campaigns to suit your needs.
Discover the best solutions to your challenges - big or small. Make idea sharing interactive with likes, comments, and voting. Keep everyone engaged, informed, and involved every step of the way.
💡Voting is a great way to automatically shortlist ideas
Save time with automated native notifications and simple tracking. Celebrate milestones, gamify the process, and update employees at every stage of the journey.
💡Promote fresh ideas to drive momentum and encourage participation
Use crowd review (voting and liking) to shortlist ideas to be reviewed by your campaign manager or subject matter expert.
💡Create review stage time to keep ideas moving
Easily notify employees when their ideas are delivered, sharing how their contributions drive meaningful results.
💡Measure direct idea impact by time / cost saved, revenue generated
Leverage Sideways 6 AI to streamline idea management effortlessly.
Automatically enhance idea quality, reduce duplicates, and identify common themes, so you can focus on what matters - bringing the best ideas to life.
Save time, improve engagement, and make smarter decisions with AI-powered insights.
Whether you're trialling ideas for the first time or levelling up a proven programme, our plans are designed to deliver value without breaking the bank.
Feature Details |
Lite Plan Quick and easy solution for small teams |
Enterprise Plan Large companies driving big change at scale |
🚀 Campaign Management | Lite | Enterprise |
Number of users | Up to 500 | 500+ |
Campaign creation Branded campaigns, custom workflows, etc. |
✅ | ✅ |
Custom campaign audience Customize campaign question, add additional questions, custom workflow and more |
✅ | ✅ Includes custom audiences |
Anonymous submissions Give the option of anonymous submission to users |
– | ✅ |
Communities Additional dedicated spaces to organize campaigns by departments, regions, and business units |
✅ Limited to 2 |
✅ Unlimited |
👍 Engagement | Lite | Enterprise |
User interaction Likes, comments, voting |
✅ | ✅ |
Automated notifications Updates on ideas and campaigns |
✅ | ✅ |
Campaign updates Announce key milestones, deadlines, or important moments in a campaign |
✅ | ✅ |
Campaign news Automated, scheduled updates to keep audiences informed of ongoing activity (e.g. new ideas, votes, comments) |
✅ | ✅ |
💡 Idea Management | Lite | Enterprise |
Idea stages & status Customisable workflows |
✅ | ✅ Bulk management via idea management platform |
Advanced idea management Split, merge, private notes, tags, owner assignment, bulk management and more |
– | ✅ Via Sideways 6 Idea Management Platform |
Automations Automate idea management workflows and communications |
– | ✅ via Sideways 6 idea management platform |
🗳️ Shortlisting | Lite | Enterprise |
Voting Progress and prioritise the best ideas by number of likes, votes, comments and/or shares |
✅ | ✅ |
Subject Matter Expert Review Automatically route ideas to the right experts for review at selected stages to their preferred channel |
– | ✅ Simple review management and automations via Sideways 6 idea management platform |
📊 Analytics | Lite | Enterprise |
Built-in analytics Monitor campaign engagement, bottlenecks, business impact and key trends |
– | ✅ via Sideways 6 idea management platform |
Data export CSV export |
– | ✅ via Sideways 6 idea management platform |
Read API Pull data via API to create customized PowerBI dashboards |
– | ✅ via Sideways 6 idea management platform |
✨ AI Capabilities | Lite | Enterprise |
Improve my idea Increase idea quality without losing the human touch |
✅ | ✅ |
Similar ideas Reduces duplicates at the point of submission |
✅ | ✅ |
AI Search Find ideas on a specific topic, problem or keyword |
- | ✅ |
AI Auto-populate Categorises ideas for you, in seconds |
✅ | ✅ via Sideways 6 Idea Management Platform |
🎧 Customer Support | Lite | Enterprise |
Customer Service Support level |
✅ email support |
✅ live support plus dedicated CSM |
Employees share and collaborate on ideas, respond to challenges and receive updates on the Ideas app for Microsoft Teams.
Available on Lite and Enterprise plans.
Scale and funnel ideas with powerful workflows and automations to manage, shortlist, review and measure ROI from those ideas.
Available on Enterprise plan only.
How M&S gets 70% more employee ideas
with Sideways 6 and Microsoft Teams
The value of what we achieved with the help of Sideways 6 cannot be understated — it’s priceless.