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Hives in Microsoft Teams

Ideas come up in Teams all day. Hives gives them somewhere to go.

Add Hives.co as an app and it sits in the Teams sidebar. People submit ideas and feedback without leaving Teams, look through what colleagues have sent in, and follow an idea through the workflow. The team decides in Hives, and the person who suggested it can see what happened.

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In Teams, and for everyone who is not.

Ideas come in through Teams. Decisions get made in Hives.

Idea programmes tend to lose people at the same moment: when taking part means going somewhere else. With Hives.co added to Teams, somewhere else is already in the sidebar, next to the chats and channels people have open all day. Adding it is four steps in Teams: open Apps, search for Hives.co, select it, click Add. It works on every paid Teams plan.

  1. Open

    In the sidebar, next to the chat.

    Once Hives.co is added, it sits in the Teams app sidebar. Open it, submit an idea or a piece of feedback, and go back to the conversation you were in.

  2. Share

    One link in a channel reaches everyone in it.

    Post a collection's link in a Teams channel and people submit from it, at a desk or on a phone, signed in with the Microsoft account they already have. Only your organisation gets in.

  3. Reach

    Not everyone has a Teams licence. Most people have a phone.

    The people in the store, out on site or on the road take part with a QR code, the mobile app or a browser, signing in with their email. Their ideas land in the same collection as the ones from Teams.

  4. Follow

    See what came in, and what happened to yours.

    From the sidebar, people look through what colleagues have submitted and follow any idea through the workflow, their own included. The person who suggested something can see which step it is in without asking anyone.

  5. Decide

    The decisions happen in Hives, not in the thread.

    Reviewing, prioritising and deciding take place in the Hives workflow, the same one whichever way an idea came in. Teams is the way in. The collection, the workflow and the record of what was decided stay in one place.

Nothing for IT to deploy, and no new address for anyone to remember. It is in the sidebar.

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For IT and the Teams admin

What IT asks before anyone clicks Add.

Security and GDPR details The App Compliance answers on Microsoft Learn

  • Listed in the Teams store

    Hives.co is listed in the Microsoft Teams store and on AppSource, app ID WA200006670. It works on every paid Teams plan. The free version of Teams does not support apps.

  • Microsoft single sign-on

    Microsoft SSO is included on every plan, so people sign in with the account they already have and access ends when that account does. Enterprise plans add SAML.

  • Name and email, stored in Germany

    In its App Compliance answers to Microsoft (August 2024), Hives states that the Teams app processes name and email address, that this data is stored in Germany, and that it is kept for less than 60 days after an account is terminated.

  • What else Hives told Microsoft

    The same answers cover TLS, annual penetration testing, a documented disaster recovery plan, established data access management, and reporting data breaches within 72 hours. They are the answers Hives gave Microsoft, not an independent certification.

  • Nothing to deploy

    Hives is a web app. IT reviews access and identity rather than running a rollout.

  • Customer data in the EU

    Customer data is hosted in the EU by default. The security page has the details on hosting and sign-in.

Common questions

Install steps and requirements
Does it need a paid Microsoft Teams plan?

Yes. The Hives.co app works on all paid Microsoft Teams plans. The free version of Teams does not support apps, so people on it take part through a link, a QR code, the mobile app or a browser instead.

What data does the Teams app process?

Name and email address. That is what Hives listed in its App Compliance answers to Microsoft, last updated in August 2024. The same answers state that the data is kept for less than 60 days after an account is terminated.

Where is the data from the Teams app stored?

In Germany, according to the App Compliance answers Hives gave Microsoft. Hives customer data is hosted in the EU by default.

How do people sign in?

With the Microsoft account they already have. Microsoft single sign-on is included on every plan, so only your organisation gets in and access ends when the account does. People who are not in Teams take part from a link, a QR code, the mobile app or a browser, signing in with their email.

How do we install it?

In Microsoft Teams, open Apps, search for Hives.co, select it and click Add. The help article has the same steps and the requirements.

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