IdeaLift Joins the Microsoft Partner Network: What This Means for You

We're excited to announce that IdeaLift has been accepted into the Microsoft Partner Network. This milestone represents our commitment to building enterprise-grade integrations and supporting product teams where they work.

Why Microsoft Partnership Matters

For product teams using Microsoft Teams, this partnership brings immediate and future benefits:

Enhanced Teams Integration

Our Microsoft Teams bot helps you capture feature requests and product ideas directly from your team's conversations. When someone shares a great idea in Teams, you can:

• React to any message with a thumbs up to capture it as an idea
• Use /idea <url> to log URLs as feature requests
• Run /idea capture to summarize a conversation thread into a structured idea

These ideas automatically sync to your connected GitHub Issues, Jira, or Linear workspace.

Enterprise Trust

As a Microsoft Partner, IdeaLift meets Microsoft's standards for:

• Security: Rigorous app security requirements
• Privacy: Compliance with enterprise data handling practices
• Reliability: Production-ready infrastructure and support

For enterprise teams evaluating feedback management tools, Microsoft Partner status reduces procurement friction and provides additional confidence in our platform.

Coming Soon: Azure Marketplace

We're working toward listing IdeaLift on the Azure Marketplace. This will enable:

• Simplified Billing: Purchase IdeaLift through your existing Azure subscription
• Centralized Management: Manage your subscription alongside other Azure services
• Enterprise Discovery: Visibility to organizations searching for product management tools on Azure

Coming Soon: Teams App Store

We're preparing IdeaLift for the Microsoft Teams App Store. Once certified, you'll be able to:

• Install IdeaLift directly from the Teams app directory
• Benefit from Microsoft's security and compliance verification
• Get automatic updates through Teams

What This Means for Existing Users

If you're already using IdeaLift with Microsoft Teams, nothing changes immediately. You'll continue to use the bot as you do today.

Over the coming months, you'll see:

1. Improved Teams experience as we optimize for certification requirements
2. New installation options via Teams App Store and Azure Marketplace
3. Enhanced enterprise features for larger organizations

Get Started with Teams

If you haven't tried IdeaLift's Teams integration yet, now is a great time to start:

1. Sign up for IdeaLift or log in to your existing account
2. Go to Dashboard > Integrations > Microsoft Teams
3. Follow the connection flow to add the bot to your workspace
4. Start capturing ideas from your team conversations

The Road Ahead

Microsoft Partnership is part of our broader mission to meet product teams where they work. Whether your team uses Slack, Discord, Teams, or all three, IdeaLift captures ideas from every conversation and routes them to your development workflow.

We're building the feedback management layer that connects customer conversations to shipped features. Microsoft Partnership helps us do that better for the millions of teams using Teams every day.

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Have questions about our Teams integration? Reach out to support@startvest.ai or join our Discord community.