Top Sideways 6 Alternatives and Competitors
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Sideways 6 is idea and innovation management software that works alongside your collaboration tools, sparking ideas in places where they happen naturally. Sideways 6 allows you to source ideas from anywhere. It collects ideas by leveraging tools your employees already use such as Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Workplace by Facebook. With Sideways 6, turn ideas into projects and manage them all the way through to delivery.
Common Features
Idea Capture | Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting | Role-Based Access | Social Collaboration | Advanced Search and Filtering | Idea Approval Workflow | Mobile | Idea Funnel | Notifications | Idea Scoring / Evaluation | Idea Segmentation | News Feed | Multiple Language Support | Data Export and Import | Application Integration | Customizable Branding | Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Sideways 6
Compare how Sideways 6 stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

HYPE Innovation
HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)
8.3
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+97
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25
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Compared to Sideways 6, HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) is:
Better at Integrating
Easier to Use
Easier to Customize
More Inspiring
More Innovative
Worse at Support
Hype Boards (formerly Viima) makes Innovation a Part of Everyday Work. Here's how to use HYPE Boards to go from collaboration to innovation

HYPE Innovation
HYPE Enterprise Suite
8.1
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+91
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39
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Compared to Sideways 6, HYPE Enterprise Suite is:
Better at Integrating
More Innovative
Easier to Use
More Inspiring
Easier to Customize
Less Transparent
HYPE Innovation joins forces with Planbox, bolstering leadership in strategic innovation management. HYPE Innovation offers dedicated software and consulting for a broad range of innovation management use cases. We’re here to help you create your own innovation strategy, build a roadmap, and give you the tools to track your success. Beyond our innovation management solutions, our vast client community is a buzzing network of innovation professionals where you can find invaluable advice from your peers.

Brightidea
Brightidea Idea Box
8.0
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+91
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24
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Compared to Sideways 6, Brightidea Idea Box is:
Better at Integrating
More Innovative
Easier to Customize
More Inspiring
Less Transparent
Worse at Support
Brightidea’s turn-key Idea Box is ready to go from day one. The streamlined interface makes participation easy and the mobile app facilitates collaboration anywhere at any time. ROI and business impact are easily tracked through a robust analytics engine that leads to informed insight. With an always-on digital suggestion box for collecting ideas, your workforce is empowered to submit ideas when and where it is convenient for them, at their desks or on the go.

IdeaScale
IdeaScale
7.8
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+90
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31
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Compared to Sideways 6, IdeaScale is:
Better at Integrating
Easier to Customize
More Innovative
More Inspiring
Worse at Support
Less Transparent
IdeaScale is an innovation management solution that links organizations to people with ideas. Those ideas can change the world – not just your business. Find ideas to aid in digital transformation, to face the age of automation, to fight climate change, inequality and beyond. Connect to the ideas that matter and start co-creating the future.
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Planview
Planview IdeaPlace
7.8
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+81
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24
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Compared to Sideways 6, Planview IdeaPlace is:
Better at Integrating
Easier to Customize
More Innovative
Less Transparent
Less Respectful
Worse at Support
Join the 6M+ employees at 500+ enterprise companies that are using Planview IdeaPlace (formerly Planview Spigit) to bring the power of collective intelligence to every business challenge.

ProductBoard Inc
Productboard
7.7
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+94
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18
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Compared to Sideways 6, Productboard is:
More Inspiring
Better at Integrating
Easier to Use
More Efficient
Worse at Support
Less Transparent
Productboard helps product managers understand what customers need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around the roadmap. It is a customer-centric product management platform. It's comprehensive, flexible, and built on an open platform to meet the needs of today’s product organizations.
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