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# Sideways 6 Reviews
**Vendor:** Interact  
**Category:** [Idea Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/idea-management)  
**Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 41
## About Sideways 6
"A no-brainer for employee idea crowdsourcing platform." Jan 2023 Engage your people, improve your organisation and build a culture of Innovation quickly and simply, on Microsoft Teams, your Interact Intranet and more At Sideways 6, we understand the importance of engaging your employees to achieve business goals through ideas. But running ideas programs at scale can easily become unwieldy and difficult to execute with impact. That's why we've developed a solution that revolutionizes the way companies share, manage, and review employee ideas to drive business goals through a culture that puts employees at its core. Our software makes it easy for companies to share and organize employee ideas in the tools your employees use every day, ensuring that no great idea goes unnoticed. With automated and customizable tools, communications, tracking, voting, and reviewing, our platform allows companies to quickly and easily assess the potential of each idea and make informed decisions for maximum impact whilst engaging employees. Companies that use Sideways 6 manage ideas 3 times quicker, spend 4 times less time updating employees, see 78% more engagement and ideas and implement ideas that make a tangible different to the bottom line. By using Sideways 6, businesses experience a significant increase in resource efficiency (\>$60M saved by Balfour Beatty), productivity (Nestlé ideated 155 new products to take to market), and engagement (16% increase employee engagement at DXC Technology). By leveraging the power employees' ideas, Sideways 6 can help your company reach new heights of success. Find out why the likes of Rio Tinto, Nestlé, Vodafone and Marks and Spencer trust the Sideways 6 approach at www.sideways6.com.



## Sideways 6 Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users appreciate the **collaborative support** from Sideways 6, enhancing value and adaptability to meet diverse needs. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **dedicated customer support** from Sideways 6, ensuring successful onboarding and ongoing assistance. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **extensive customization options** of Sideways 6, tailoring it to fit diverse business needs effectively. (1 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **ease of use** in Sideways 6, enhancing both idea submission and administrative tasks effectively. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **empowerment of employees** through Sideways 6, enhancing engagement and fostering innovation from the ground up. (1 reviews)
- Idea Management (1 reviews)
- Innovation Management (1 reviews)
- Users value the **seamless integration with Teams** , enhancing collaboration and customizing their experience for better outcomes. (1 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **intuitive user interface** of Sideways 6, enhancing engagement and facilitating seamless idea submission. (1 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users find **difficult navigation** in the submissions pipeline limits the overall user experience and ease of use. (1 reviews)
- Users worry about **idea duplication** as suggestions may be overlooked, risking employee morale and engagement. (1 reviews)
- Users face **limitations with self-service access** to engagement and login data, causing frustration and inconvenience. (1 reviews)
- Users find the **search functionality lacking** , making it difficult to navigate submissions effectively. (1 reviews)
- Users experience **search limitations** and an onerous backend, leading to a slightly poorer user experience. (1 reviews)

## Sideways 6 Reviews
  ### 1. Appreciate Sideways 6

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Anshuman S. | Product Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2025

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Sideways 6 stands out by empowering every employee to become an innovator, drawing on valuable insights from those on the front lines. Unlike traditional suggestion boxes, it ensures that ideas are not only collected but also thoroughly reviewed, developed, and put into action. This approach fosters a strong culture of continuous improvement and greatly enhances employee engagement.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

One possible drawback is that the platform's effectiveness relies greatly on the company's willingness to follow through on the ideas submitted. If there aren't sufficient resources allocated to assess and put these suggestions into practice, the platform could end up functioning like a digital suggestion box where employee input is overlooked. This, in turn, might harm morale if employees begin to feel that their contributions are not being taken seriously.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Sideways 6 addresses the important issue of untapped employee insight by offering a straightforward way for ideas to reach the appropriate decision-makers. For me, this makes it simple to share suggestions for improvement and gives me the sense that my input is truly valued. In the end, this contributes to a more efficient work environment and fosters a greater sense of shared purpose.

  ### 2. Great company to work with.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jordan G. | Hatch Coordinator - Member Experience, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2025

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Their tech support, onboarding and commitment to the success of the program that's supported by their services.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

The only negative is limitations with self-service access to engagement and log-in data.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Staff led ideas. Giving a voice to our staff to raise problems and opportunities to improve customer and employee experience.

  ### 3. We've tried the others, but the platform and supporting team are by far the best!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Yvette F. | Manager, Member Experience, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

From the outset, the team at S6 have been invested in our journey and need - collaborating to ensure we get maximum value about outcome from the S6 platform.
We love the integration with Teams and ease of use, both as a front end user for submitting an Idea, but the a backend as an Administrator of the pipeline.
We've largely been able to customise the forms, flow and user experience to meet our diverse business needs, and periodically work with S6 to ensure we have an effective tool to support our cultural and performance objectives. They're always eager to collaborate and understand how they can evolve and adapt the tool to drive value and engagement.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Not much...
There have been some limitations in the ease of search in the pipeline of submissions, which as we migrated a significant volume of submissions from prior platforms, has made for a slightly poorer UX.
The back end is a little "onerous" for an infrequent user / administrator of the pipeline (part of our model to have decentralised Champions manage their bucket of work), but a small challenge to navigate.
We'd love to have our hands on our engagement data (our core success measure) a bit more real-time/self-led, but the team are always timely and generous with sharing this data to support our monthly reporting, so again, a manageable "issue".

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

S6 is helping support our cultural value - that we are a customer obsessed organisation, and that when you (a staff member) see a substandard experience - you can elevate it quickly and easily.
Our platfrom is supported by a network of decentralised cross-functional Champions who investigate, prioritise and deliver on improvements to eliminate these poor employee or member experiences.
As the centralised owner of the Platform and cultral proof point of our commitment and tangible delivery of improvements that deliver increase CSat or EX, Sideways 6 provides us;
- an engaging, easy to use, all employee - always on platform for our staff who work across multiple locations and 24/7, to share their ideas or things that are stopping us succeeding.
- an effective back end pipeline management to administer the buckets of work, progress, cadence and outcomes - with automation, features and report (far above other products we've used) that allows us to provide Executive confidence that we're delivering our our customer obsessed commitments and employee promise.

  ### 4. Easy to use and great for business reports

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Lauryn D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

I like that I can export data into excel and easily change the values I do or don't want to see, as well as saving multiple different views for different purposes. This is really useful for creating different reports and checking different facts quickly

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Within each idea, it is a bit harder to search or filter for specific information

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Sideways 6 collates all ideas into one place and provides multiple ways of filtering those, to view them by date, stages, submitter, etc. Sideways 6 makes it so much easier to create reports and data sets from a mix of qualitative and quantative data.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you for this feedback, it's very useful and we'll pass that on to our product team. 

  ### 5. Superior customer experience and product

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Michelle R. | VP of Business Advancement, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Sideways6's seamless integration with Microsoft Teams was a key factor in the selection process.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

I have been very pleased with Sideways6's response to customer feedback and its transparency of future enhancements and functionality.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The Sideways6 platform enables every colleague to impact T&F by suggesting ideas that we test, trial, and ultimately use to advance and grow our business. One of the most critical drivers of innovation within our organization is our people, and there is no shortage of new, creative, and unique ideas throughout Advanced Learning. Sideways6 enables T&F to meet this critical business initiative.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you so much for these great insights and we're delighted that T&F is getting value from our product. As always, don't hesitate to let us know if there's anything else we can do to improve it.

  ### 6. Best in view of Analytics Report

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** saikiran k. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

There is best view for the Analytics report, where the campaigns gives us te clear cut information and the Dashboard view is Awsome and it is user friendly interface.
And Support team they are very quick to help and resolve my problem.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

when ever in Run the power automate flow it is run fine, when ever the interface changes it is making hard to run the flow.
I need to go back to flow and change the co-ordinates as per the interface changes.
and genreal pop-ups makes my flow to fails.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

N/A

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you so much for your feedback - really helpful - we'll look into disrupting flows to a minimum and are taking this very much on board. 

  ### 7. User experience is very good and that the live assistance is helpful in quickly resolving any doubts

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Eva P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

I must say that the live assistance has been incredibly helpful in quickly resolving any doubts I may have, and the tool's ability to track projects and consolidate reviews in one place saves me valuable time and allows me to focus more effectively.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

I believe the way the tool looks regarding the brand could be enhanced

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The tool is helping me engage employees and improve communication, and the expert review feature is interesting as it allows us to prioritize and stay informed about each idea.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you for your positive feedback about our live assistance and project tracking capabilities. We understand your concern about the tool's appearance and will take that into account for future enhancements. We're glad to hear that the tool is helping you engage employees and prioritize ideas.

  ### 8. Sideways 6 used for Transmission Ideas in SSEN

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Michael C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The customer support! Holding interactive sessions and being involoved in our process and metric rework. Easy to use and perfectly integarted

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Nothing, mayber the fact there is no time dependant automation in their system yet

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Creating a company wide idea collection scheme

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you for this great feedback! We'll pass on your comments to our customer support superstars! 

  ### 9. Enhancing user experience for an idea manager

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Easy to use, easy to manage ideas in an organized way, features like flags and statuses available to mark different phases of the ideas. Space available to post updates on the ideas.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

There is no way to share updates on the ideas with the ideas submitter via sideways6. Also, no way to book a meeting with the idea submitter to discuss the progress of ideas.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ability to have the ideas in one place and the feature to manage these ideas in one place has made the entire process very lean. This has reduced the effort to manually make the sheets and therefore saves a lot of time.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Hi there. Thank you so much for your feedback. We're delighted you're finding the product easy to use.
On your point about sharing update, please let us know what you mean and need to do  (feel free to speak directly to your CSM) otherwise did you know that we have a few ways to share updates:
Automatically. it is possible to create automations to send a Teams private message or email for each stage/status change.
Manually: for each idea, it is possible to send an email, teams private message, teams comment or idea progress update. 
Does this solve your issue?

  ### 10. Experience of using Sideways as an Ideas Manager

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The comprehensiveness of the platform allows me as an idea manager to track the entire journey of a project. The interface is largely user-friendly, allowing for easy monitoring of data, and pulls in information from the Ignite platform seamlessly.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Filtering options could be improved on the platform which would be helpful where we have multiple ideas managers, or several ideas at various stages.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Sideways 6 gives a centralised repository of ideas, allowing us to move away from Excel spreadsheets and manual tracking and recording of ideas. The steps of idea generation and management have become more transparent between managers and has helped save time.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you so much for your feedback. That's extremely useful. 

  ### 11. S6 in SSE Renewables

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The ability to track and manage work and interact and use it to prioritise with colleagues.  Also the ability to use comms notifications to keep idea submitters updated quickly and easily.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Not all the functionalityt/capabilities are intuitive and I don't always have time to spend trying stuff out.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Finding digital data solutions for business stakeholders who have largely silo-ed processes or mechanisms for doing their day job.  It allows me to assess individual ideas consistently against a standard data set and prioritise accordingly.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you so much for your feedback! We are committed to making all our functionalities intuitive so this is really useful feedback that will be passed on to our product teams. Thanks again 

  ### 12. A great tool to manage employee ideas

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Aafreen A. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Integration with Teams, customer service, and continuous improvements that are made.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

I was not a big fan of the backend platform but since the update it has become more user-friendly.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Capturing ideas to advance buisness from all levels of the organisation, breaking down silos.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you so much for your feedback Aafreen, glad you're finding the new backend interface better. Don't hesitate to share your thoughts with our CSMs - we want to make sure we're always delivering the best experience for our customers (especially star customers like T&F :) ) 

  ### 13. A clear and easy to use site.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Sideways 6 has been hepful as it uses bookmark tabs to guide you through the website. It is very easy to navigate and organise your work through Sideways 6.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

The dashboard tab in sideways 6 that generates graphs can be difficult to use, however, once explained this becomes more understandable.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Sideways 6 gives us a platform to organise and plan idea management in an easy way allowing us to deliver ideas that have a positive impact across the company.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Great! thank you for this feedback. We'll look into making it more intuitive but good to hear you get useful usage. 

  ### 14. Very simple and esay to use

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** johnathan m. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Sidways six was very easy to get the hand of

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

There are too many options (but i suspect this is more an issue with the way my company has set it up)

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

streamline the process from idea to delivery

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you for your feedback. That's very useful. Glad to hear you're finding it easy to use. 

  ### 15. User friendliness of S6

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Sideway 6 has become alot easier to use because i am comfortable with the system now. It is quite easy and user friendly

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

One thing that could be improved is to be able to comment within S6 isntead of having to go to the source like Viva engage

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Sideway 6 helps triage and manage our ideas that then go onto saving the business on time and money.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you so much for your feedback that's extremely useful. 

  ### 16. A smooth and practical experience

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Houssem F. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

A history of nominative changes

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

nothing more to say everything is smooth and easy to use

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Source ideas and a way to manage them

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you for your comments. We are happy to know that our product is useful to you and that you find it easy and smooth to use.

  ### 17. SSE Transmission working with Sideways 6

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** A H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Simple, streamlined experience, user friendly and customizable via automations etc. Excellent customer support, friendly and knowledgeable.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

No automations triggered by time events - this would be a useful addition

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Gives everyone within the business an opportunity to have their ideas seen and considered.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you for your feedback! We appreciate your suggestion for adding automations triggered by time events, and we'll definitely take that into consideration for future improvements.

  ### 18. Supportive, Encouraging, Involved

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Working with Sideways 6 has been fabulous! The CSM has been helpful and supportive. The communication is seamless and their level of involvement goes beyond mere service provision. The features Sideways 6 offers are great and easy to learn.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

I don't know that I can say anything negative regarding Sideways 6 to be honest.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Innovation in the work place.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Music to our ears! thank you so much for this review - we'll make sure to pass your comments on to our amazing CS team!

  ### 19. Good system but could be improved

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Daniel H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Easy to filter ideas. Good in being able to action multiple ideas

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Complicated when on idea page. Too many boxes in different spots

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Being able to manage multiple ideas and administer them differently

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you so much for this feedback. We'll look into simplifying the idea pages. 

  ### 20. Good way to manage ideas

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Organisation aspect with filtering and selection options

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Individual topic page appears cluttered.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Management of ideas submitted internally and tracking their progression.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you so much for your feedback. We'll definitely take that on board and look at un-cluttering individual topics to make it as clear as possible. 

  ### 21. User Friendly app

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The app offers a user-friendly experience with visually appealing design and easy accessibility. It's an innovative platform with multiple features. Additionally, the analytics provided by the app are robust, offering valuable insights and a wealth of information.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

it's not really practical to add filters.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Group and categorize ideas within the framework of a project.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Thank you so much for your feedback. We're delighted that you're having a good experience with the product. If you have any more details on the filters not being practical we'd love to hear more and learn what we can do better. Thanks again 

  ### 22. Good platform

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

It is user-friendly, the use of it works well with what we try to use it for, it looks and feels modern.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Can't say I dislike anything. The platform works for me in every way.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Managing ideas easily which is quite a quick and intuitive process when using the interface.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Fantastic! thank you so much! 

  ### 23. A great experience with Sideways 6

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The engagement and support in launching the ideas app for our company.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Nothing huge. The automated emails does not drop down a line word depending

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

a transpartent platform for all our global colleagues to offer business imporvement suggestions. Supporting automation with responses to colleagues.

**Official Response from caroline schreiber:**

> Amazing! great to hear. And thanks for that note on our automated emails. We'll pass on to our product team. 

  ### 24. Very useful product and great customer service

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Emma P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Excellent customer service. The team is responsive and helpful. Integration with Microsoft Teams and PowerBI. Automations and campaign set up are great.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Some lack of customization and flexibility in the custom fields and comms.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We had an unmanagebly large list of projects & challenges with collecting new ideas from >500 employees. S6 provided an excellent tool to manage this in one place

  ### 25. Outstanding  tool for idea and collaboration management

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Amil H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

End to end innovation management tool that is easy to configure and track progress. Integrates in several corps collaboration tools such as Teams and Workplace

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Difficulties to integrate tailored and on demand features

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It helps collaborate on several challenges at the time and gather ideas from employees across organisation

  ### 26. Amazing service, even better people

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Josh V. | Suggest to Steve Programme Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2021

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The platfrom, knowledge and experience Sideways 6 provide is exceptional. The whole team are very friendly and no task seems too big for them. With their support, they are helping us bring ideas to life across our business, making us change for the better.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

There is nothing to dislike, great people and an exceptional service.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

They are helping us to provide a service for our colleagues that gives everyone a voice to share how they think we can imrpove as a business. Their ways of working is making the suggestion process easier for our colleagues. It also allows the reviewing process for our subject matter experts across the business more efficenet, compared to our old ways of working, the Sideways 6 platform now allows reviews to be completed 4 times quicker.

  ### 27. Good product, even better team behind it

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2021

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The service that sits behind the product

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Not much! There were a few technical improvements that we've suggested, some of which have been implemented

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Idea generation - lots of employee ideas collected from our first campaign, significantly higher than anticipated

  ### 28. Great platform, excellent customer service

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2021

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

With a bit of training, everyone can use the platform. There are good built-in analytics and evaluating and progressing ideas is straightforward.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

The rich functionality can be overwhelming, but with some training, it all makes sense. The UX could be slightly better.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have used Sideways6 to engage our 80,000 employees in ideating our company strategy and used it to inform and recalibrate our strategy during and after the COVID pandemic, again engaging all employees worldwide. Thousands of ideas were put forward.

  ### 29. Excellent tool for managing ideas and giving colleagues a great experince too

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Rich P. | Senior Internal Communications Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2021

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The backend is really strong and really helps to manage ideas through the funnel to implementation. Automations and tools throughout help to give a great colleague experience even after initial idea submission.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Haven't come across any yet, it's really good.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Finding ideas from our colleagues, brining them to light, implementing and improving our business. We also used this at a previous company to find allt he great stories out colleagues had from throughout the pandemic.

  ### 30. Sideways a good tool worthwhile.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Liam J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2020

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

It is operated by companies with high numbers of employees to build a better business, through the ideas generated by the users themselves, and then be executed by this body, it is a mutual help company-staff, since they offer their ideas the company pays them and the corporation ends up benefiting in a higher way due to their high expectations, what I like most is that this server connects to the Yammer platform, to obtain, manage and analyze ideas without requiring a learning from a software to our workers.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

This management of employee opinion ideas is highly expensive, denying access to small companies because they cannot meet the monthly payment due, and even mid-category companies, making it a problem, since it does not present as many tools as Other cheaper software that have the same functionality and offer a greater amount of help, does not have automation in generating opinions for the realization of any future project.

**Recommendations to others considering Sideways 6:**

In recommended terms Sideways 6 is available for large and small companies with more than 100 employees on average, as it is carried out with the work of its executive staff offering their best ideas to choose a project to execute for the benefit of both. both for the business and for the individual workers of the organization, this guarantees a, collaboration, ideology, classification of opinions raised by each member, monitoring of states and among many other functionalities of the software.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use it mainly because it is integrated into any social network of our most mobilization in use, either with Microsoft yammer or facebook workplace, through this means we communicate as it is designed in its programming, so that our employees They can send their ideas to concretize the realization of a discussed project, and you not only get more opinions from some common system but also a quality to exercise good service through the codification and acceptance of the executives of our company.

  ### 31. Great experience with S6. Brilliant minds, innovative, kind and very professional.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2021

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The fact that they're always updated, they constantly support you, they provide solutions and best practices.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Some minor features on the platform could be improved

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

They're helping us innovating our company

  ### 32. A fantastic platform for idea capture

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Karen A. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The team at Sideways 6 offer the best support! Justine has been there every step of the way during implementation and has provided information at just the right level.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

I use a laptop and find the text is really small and difficult to read - could the font size be increased?

**Recommendations to others considering Sideways 6:**

Talk to the team at Sideways 6 and find out how it could work with Yammer for you.  They really take the time to show you the ways that you can use the platform.  

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Sideways 6 has offered a solution our Yammer onboarding in a seamless and streamlined way.
The platform offers a fantastic opportunity to capture crowdsourced ideas and prgress these forward to an end result.

  ### 33. Simplify my Yammer searches

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Carlo D. | Crew Insight to Action Business Lead, Airlines/Aviation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2018

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

one tool to pull data from different yammer groups to simplify my searches and report all in one easy manageable area.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

The setup could be easier and more intuitive, challenges and other words do not appropriately define the characteristics of their purpose.

**Recommendations to others considering Sideways 6:**

one tool to simplify yammer searches, try it and see for yourself how easy it is

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

users post on different threads/groups on topics i need to be aware of. Ease of access to all via the centralised Sideways6 operation.

  ### 34. Idea management platform for global business services centres

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

In the project of set up idea management platform for global business services centres we valued the product for being cloud based solution that enables structuring gathered information and its management. Communication feature with ability to predefine notification templates to users to standardise response types, and scheduling notifications to engage and remind employees on the campaign.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Basic product lacked extended KPI measures on platform users (if reviews are run in a timely manner, where are the bottlenecks).

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Engagement of employees to share their ideas, which resulted in performing continuous improvement projects and activities.

  ### 35. A great bolt on for yammer

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2018

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

I love the way that Sideways allows the team to manage the ideas through the stages, and statuses from end to end.

I also think that it is great that the Sideways team are always actively willing to listen to suggestions for improving the system and processes 

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

As with all online systems there can be delays and timing issues at time

**Recommendations to others considering Sideways 6:**

A great crowdsourcing addition

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have seen a number of great successes through our process that Sideways have helped us manage

  ### 36. First campaign with Sideways6 a roaring success

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2018

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The interaction with customers from the team is excellent, whenever I had a question I could ask the live chat or email our customer success manager, and they would ensure to get to the bottom of any questions we had. I love the stages that you can set up to move submitted posts through to work like a pipeline and to more easily manage the flow of ideas through to review and outcomes. This also makes it possible to use Sideways6 as a presentation tool in terms of the dashboard to update stakeholders on the successes of the campaign.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

The interface can be a bit boring to navigate, but is ultimately sleek and minimalistic - it does the job it is required to do. Sometimes I wish it had a few more gamification badges perhaps, and the number of clicks for certain actions can mean some processes are a little long. 

**Recommendations to others considering Sideways 6:**

Find the way that Sideways6 can work for you and your project/campaign, its very flexible and there are lots of ways to use it to reduce your manual workload. 
If you find a feature that doesn't work as intuitively as you need it to, discuss with the customer success manager and product team as chances are its either in the  product roadmap, or it could be with your feedback. 

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are using Sideways6 on a company wide crowdsourcing campaign for ideas to solve and improve problems in colleagues' working lives. Its benefits are huge, including the mass management of a large number of ideas on the platform rather than having to manually pull them into a spreadsheet from Yammer.

  ### 37. Works out of the box with great support

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Steve G. | Internal Communications Channels Manager, Retail, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2017

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

I like its simplicity and versatility. If you're a small comms team, Sideways 6 is like having an extra member, helping you with internal social.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

The preview mode for scheduled posts could be better. The site doesn't seem to remember my login credentials, so I find myself having to type them in multiple times each day.

**Recommendations to others considering Sideways 6:**

If you're looking to get more out of Yammer as a serious business tool, Sideways 6 does a lot of the grunt work and can help you unlock the power of internal social.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Early days, but it's been useful for launching our Yammer education campaign and also harvesting insights and league tables on where the best ideas and most activity is coming from.

  ### 38. Excellent product from a friendly team

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Warwick S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2018

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

It's streamlined and largely intuitive - crisply designed and presented. Simplifies a process that would be laborious using older methods and encourages participation/collaborations across the organisation. And the human team behind it are enthusiastic, friendly and sharp.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Perhaps the interface could be simplified still further (for amateurs like me)? There were times when I was trying to do the right thing but in the wrong panel.

**Recommendations to others considering Sideways 6:**

I would definitely recommend the product and the team

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Driving yammer engagement/take-up across a sceptical organisation, in particular running and analysing as staff ideas campaign.

  ### 39. Excellent ideas management tool and support

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2017

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Sideways 6 provides powerful content management for Yammer groups and challenges that helps you keep track of ideas, whereas using Yammer itself may mean those great ideas could get lost. 

The platform user interface is simple to understand and easy on the eye...always useful for if you're going to be looking at it for a long time!

Best of all is the relationship we've developed with the team at Sideways 6. They've always been on hand to support with any issues or questions we may have, and have been hugely receptive to feedback on how the platform could be developed to suit our ever-demanding needs.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Occasionally the system can lag / run slowly. We're aware this could be linked to the amount of data we're putting through it at any one time, however, and as above the team have always been on hand to support where needed.

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

- BAU Idea Management
- Running dedicated challenges and campaigns to drive ideas in certain areas
- Helping make sense of and group together common posts, and split out between feedback and true ideas

  ### 40. Easy to use, great product

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ryan C. | Red Track Crew (Management Apprentice), Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2016

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

Product is easy to use, makes capturing ideas from people all around the business simple and easy to review. Attentive staff who make sure they cater for individual needs.

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

Nothing to note. Anything that we have required to change has been done so very quickly. 

**Recommendations to others considering Sideways 6:**

Highly recommend, easy to use, support from S6 fantastic and very agile when dealing with changes required. 

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Company wide problems linked to commercial priorities. Easy to capture all of our people's idea with very little manual work required. Simple rating system enabling appropriate managers to review the idea.

  ### 41. Using Sideways 6 

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Liam A. | Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2014

**What do you like best about Sideways 6?**

The introduction of Sideways 6 in my company enabled a new way of working, allowing the whole organisation (globally) to quickly and easily share their ideas throughout our business. What appealed to us was the focus on the key three pillars of our organisation: ideation, insights and innovation. We're a consultancy based on London, UK and our clients depend on us to be their creative arm; Sideways 6 allows us to become more profitable, by sharing ideas for new projects, new ideas around the office, new ideas within the industry, in one central location. It also helps our organisation be more engaged with our employees; peoples voices are actually heard. 

**What do you dislike about Sideways 6?**

We were concious about implementing the solution and thought to ourselves, it is enough? The success of the implementation is measured by converting ideas into actionable movements and how effectively a persons voice is heard. Perhaps our only dislike is the lack of analytical features supporting the application. However, we have regular contact with the team at Sideways 6 and the account managers say they this is part of a next release. 

**Recommendations to others considering Sideways 6:**

If you are looking to transform your internal business processes and introduce a new idea management tool focused on your people, the Sideways 6 should certainly be considered. 

**What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have solved a number of business problems, perhaps the largest is the way we log time sheets. We had a big problem with teams not updating their time sheets. The business challenged the employees to voice their opinion, since we have released a new time sheet programme into the business and are using a new tool (thank-god!) to make things easier. 

We had a number of problems around internal announcements; many of the teams felt they were not receiving information as others were. We made changes to our Intranet and made sure that HR Teams broadcast information on a fair scale.  


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## Sideways 6 Integrations
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## Sideways 6 Features
**Feedback**
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**Idea Sources**
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**Idea Collection**
- Idea Campaigns
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- Suggestion Box

**Integrations**
- Project Planning

**Agentic AI - Idea Management**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Cross-system Integration
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