Best Innovation Software in Africa

DirectSuggest's award-winning employee suggestion box app streamlines the employee feedback process so employees can be easily heard and their company can effectively leverage their collective knowledge. We make it simple for employees to make suggestions on any device surrounding company created categories with the assurance they automatically arrive to the proper decision-maker. Every employee can also collaborate on suggestions via voting and commenting to enhance the quality of ideas. DirectSuggest only costs $0.50 per employee per month, and we have incredibly high ROI/Savings potential with an average 33X return on investment. The implementation process is also quite easy, and normally upon being committed and properly prepared to do so, setting up DirectSuggest from start to finish can be completed in as quickly as a week or less.

Yumana empowers Innovation Directors to design, launch, and scale programs with ease. Our AI-powered, no-code platform brings together everything required to manage portfolios, identify and evaluate startups, and coordinate entire partner ecosystems within a single environment. Its impact reaches far beyond innovation teams. HR, operations, and sustainability leaders use the platform to replicate best practices and engage employees in continuous improvement. Built to evolve alongside your organization, the platform adapts to complex structures, connects global teams, integrates seamlessly with existing tools, and automates key processes. The result: faster ROI, greater engagement, and stronger outcomes at scale. Global leaders including L’Oréal, Michelin, Airbus, Safran, and VINCI already trust Yumana to turn ideas into measurable impact. Discover how your organization can do the same. Join the Yumana community!

Drive business success through employee ideas with Sideways 6, the revolutionary idea management software native to Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, Interact and Workplace by Meta. Running ideas programs at scale can be difficult to execute with impact. Our solution makes it easy for companies to gather and organize employee ideas ensuring that no great idea goes unnoticed. Our platform allows companies to quickly and easily assess the potential of each idea and make informed decisions for maximum impact whilst engaging employees. By using Sideways 6, businesses experience a significant increase in resource efficiency (£12m saved and 101k hours saved by Balfour Beatty in 2022 alone), productivity (Nestle ideated 155 new products to take to market), and engagement (16% increase in employee engagement at DXC). Find out why the likes of Rio Tinto, British Airways, Vodafone and Marks and Spencer trust the Sideways 6 approach.

IamIP’s patent software provides a secure, easy to use web-based platform for centrally managing and searching all published patents worldwide. Search: Perform patent searches like a patent examiner with direct connection to patent offices' register. Perform full text searches etc. Share: Create a working space for your colleagues during a project. For example, involve R&D for review. Monitoring: Set up patent monitoring for yourself and the organization. Share documents and the platform will remind the user to provide feedback. Legal Status: Monitor individual patents & follow the legal development.

Capture and action the best ideas from people with Idea Drop, a cloud-based idea management platform. Idea Drop is ideal for mid-sized businesses. Idea Drop features include campaign management, idea submission portal, collaboration tools, analytics, and idea curation. With Idea Drop's idea submission, users can capture ideas from different teams with the assistance of customizable forms. Idea Drop also enables users to launch idea campaigns depending on the business challenges.