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Move required to accommodate accelerated growth in Silicon Valley and growing adoption of Social Business Software
Portland, OR and Palo Alto, CA - November 17, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced the opening of its new Bay Area office at 735 Emerson Street in Palo Alto. The move reflects Jive's dramatic growth and increasing focus in the Bay Area at a time when the company is experiencing the greatest momentum in its history.
- Jive moved to this larger office space after outgrowing its previous Palo Alto space in just four months. While the first Bay Area employee joined on June 1, 2009, Jive anticipates that 15-20% of its staff will be based in Palo Alto by the end of 2009. In addition, several Jive executives, including CEO Dave Hersh, now work from the Palo Alto office.
- Jive is currently hiring aggressively in the Bay Area, with several open positions in engineering, product management, professional services and marketing.
- The move comes at a time when Jive continues to achieve record growth -- with Q3 of 2009 growing more than 100% as compared to Q3 of 2008 - and follows news of the company's largest-ever product launch, receiving $12M in Series B funding from Sequoia, and being positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's " Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace."
- Jive is celebrating the new office by holding an Open House for customers, prospects, prospective employees, partners, press and analysts on Thursday, November 19, from 4pm-7pm at 735 Emerson Street in Palo Alto. Hors d'oeuvres will be served along with an open bar. RSVP at events@jivesoftware.com.
Commentary
- "We have a goal to make Jive a fixture in the Bay Area technology scene, and we are searching for top-notch talent here who thrive on innovation and will help us meet our aggressive growth goals," said Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive. "Expanding our presence in the Silicon Valley is incredibly important given how many customers we have here, the deep talent pool, and all of our current and potential partners that help drive the Social Business Software market."
Additional Resources
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
Media Contacts
Aaron Wessels
Reidy Communications for Jive
415-643-8090
aaronw@reidycommunications.com
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PORTLAND, OR, Nov. 16, 2009
News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, announced that The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) is piloting the use of Jive to extend outreach and deepen engagement with external partners in government agencies, international organisations, civil society and other institutions with help from Jive Social Business Software.
- OECD, one of the world's largest and most reliable sources of economic and social analysis and data, provides a forum in which governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies.
- OECD relies heavily on consultation and collaboration with external partners, and has a number of systems to support information/data sharing and discussion forums. Much interaction however still takes place via e-mail.
- Recognizing the need to update its external collaboration portfolio, OECD performed a review of the latest in collaboration technologies and chose Jive Social Business Software. Using Jive, OECD implemented an external community to support both informal information sharing and collaboration with its partner groups as well as more formal discussions.
Jive Commentary
- "Many of our internal staff and external partners were demanding an easy to use, effective tool to aid in the consultation and collaborative process," said Chris Daniel, Analyst at OECD. "Some users had already begun experimenting with free software available on the web."
- "We wanted to provide a space where partners and staff can easily engage with one another," mentioned Chris. "Jive allows us to provide both secure private spaces as well as more open spaces where participants can find, discover and interact with one another, and share their findings, research and analysis."
- "In both the private and public arenas, we are seeing a growing demand for effective collaboration with third parties for research, contract work or established partnerships," said Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive Software. "Jive SBS uniquely supports these activities by providing an intuitive interface that minimizes the need for formal training and promotes open conversations and rapid adoption."
About OECD
The OECD (www.oecd.org) brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world to:
- Support sustainable economic growth
- Boost employment
- Raise living standards
- Maintain financial stability
- Assist other countries' economic development
- Contribute to growth in world trade
The Organisation provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies.
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
Media Contacts
Aaron Wessels
Reidy Communications for Jive
(415) 643-8090
aaronw@reidycommunications.com
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Jive to show CMOs how to use Social Business Software for connecting with customers and participating in brand conversations on the social web
San Francisco, CA - November 10, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced that Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive, will be speaking at the CMO Thought Leadership Summit. Hersh will be speaking as part of the Marketing Technology Panels Breakout, "Best in Class Ideas for Leveraging Social Media as CMOs" on Friday, November 13th from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
- Jive has partnered with the CMO Club to sponsor the summit as the only Social Business Software CMO Thought Leadership Summit Partner.
- The CMO Thought Leadership Summit, "The World's Best CMO Conversations," is produced by The CMO Club and will be held November 12-13, 2009 in San Francisco and the Union Square Marriott. The exclusive CMO-only event will feature CMO delivered case studies and roundtables from some of the top CMOs from the world's largest brands.
- In September, Jive introduced Jive Market Engagement, a new solution for marketing teams that combines the power of social media monitoring with Social Business Software. Jive Market Engagement helps organizations implement a broad, unified social media strategy to participate in productive conversations with customers that build loyalty, drive engagement and increase revenue. The solution enables brands to easily socialize key observations from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other online sources to move faster in the moment of pain or the moment of opportunity.
Additional Resources
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
Media Contacts
Aaron Wessels
Reidy Communications for Jive
415-643-8090
aaronw@reidycommunications.com
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The platform, based on Jive, is available to all 11,500 employees. As of today 55% of all Swiss Re employees have logged in at least once, and they are seeing a steady increase in creation and viewing of content. There are currently 347 groups created for collaboration on business topics with both global and local themes. The participation is cross-functional and comes from all regions and countries. They had used data from an existing internal user directory, called "Who is", as a starting point and IT had been amongst the first regular users, but eventually they've even got their account managers involved.
San Francisco, CA - Enterprise 2.0 Conference - November 4, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today congratulated Jive customer Claire Flanagan, Senior Manager, Knowledge Program and Enterprise Social Collaboration, at Computer Sciences Corporation for being awarded the 2.0 Adoption Council's "Internal Evangelist of the Year."
- The 2.0 Adoption Council awarded its inaugural, prestigious "Internal Evangelist of the Year" award on November 3 at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. According to the 2.0 Adoption Council, the award winner exemplifies, "the tenacity, courage, and sheer energy it takes to inspire a large enterprise to embrace the principles and practices of Enterprise 2.0." The award was presented to Flanagan by Andrew McAfee, widely regarded as the "father" of the enterprise 2.0 movement.
- Last week at the JiveWorld Conference in San Francisco, Flanagan accepted a Jive Social Business Software (SBS) Award on behalf of CSC, a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services. CSC received the Community Adoption Award for the launch of its internal community "C3: Connect. Communicate. Collaborate." Under Flanagan's leadership, C3 enjoyed viral success in only 20 weeks, achieving 25,000 registered users, creating over 2,000 new groups, and generating over 1 million page views a month.
Jive Commentary
- "Internal Evangelists are the true heroes of the Enterprise 2.0 revolution, preaching the principles of the 2.0 movement, building the C-level business cases, and driving adoption across large enterprises," said Susan Scrupski, founder of the 2.0 Adoption Council. "Claire embodies the spirit of the Internal Evangelist and will help inspire other evangelists who are looking to drive seismic change in their enterprises. To quote one of her colleagues, ‘I believe Claire's program marks a clear line in the sand, a before and after point in time for CSC.'"
- "Claire has been a tireless advocate of Social Business Software within her organization and within the greater Enterprise 2.0 community. She is very deserving of this accolade," said Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software. "I speak for all of Jive in congratulating Claire on being recognized by her peers to receive the Internal Evangelist of the Year award. She has set an example of what Social Business Software can accomplish within large enterprise settings, and she continues to help guide Jive on expanding that vision through future innovation."
Additional Resources
- Enterprise 2.0 E2TV broadcast of the Internal Evangelist of the Year award
- Jive Software Website
- 2.0 Adoption Council
- Computer Sciences Corporation
About 2.0 Adoption Council
The 2.0 Adoption Council was founded by SoCo Partners. Susan Scrupski, founder of SoCo Partners, has been tracking Enterprise 2.0 since its inception in 2006. She brings a unique insight into the adoption curve for large enterprises and has firsthand knowledge of the myriad of barriers between desire and full-scale adoption. More information on the Council can be found at http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software,and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
Media Contacts
Aaron Wessels
Reidy Communications for Jive
415-643-8090
aaronw@reidycommunications.com
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Jive Social Business Software Awards Recognize Six Outstanding Customers
Portland, OR - October 29, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced its first Annual Jive Social Business Software (SBS) Awards at JiveWorld09. Six customers: United Business Media (UBM), NIKE Inc., National Journal Group, CSC, Kaiser Permanente, and Swiss Re were awarded for their outstanding achievements exemplifying the business outcomes that Social Business Software can generate. The award categories included Business Impact, Community Innovation, Community Adoption, User Experience and the Social Business Software Champion Award.
- Business Impact - UBM was selected for its community deployment of Jive SBS, and its role in the strategic vision of the company. UBM's wiki platform has the support and attention of the company's senior leadership. Within the first year of deploying the UBM wiki, its community has grown to over 5,000 users, working in 35 countries. UBM's wiki users have created around 25,000 pages and generated around 3 million page views - delivering significant efficiencies, cost reductions and revenue increases to the organization.
- User Experience - NIKE Inc. was selected for its innovative use of Jive to better connect its global network of marketers with the digital assets they need to drive the brand forward. Although NIKE has a sophisticated Content Management System (CMS) in place, it was difficult to navigate for marketers who weren't yet trained on the CMS application. By using Jive as a social layer above the CMS, NIKE marketers around the world can quickly access and share approved media assets in a single location.
- Community Innovation - National Journal Group, the leading source of nonpartisan reporting on the current political environment and emerging policy trends, was selected for its ground breaking "3121" platform, powered by Jive. 3121 - which combines a dynamic directory, collaboration tools and customizable news feeds - is the first professional networking tool designed exclusively for members of Congress and their staff.
- Community Adoption - CSC, a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services, was selected for the launch of its internal community "C3: Connect. Communicate. Collaborate." Through the tenacity, credibility and trustworthiness of those involved, the CSC team secured a phenomenal level of executive endorsement from the onset and established a clear linkage between its "enterprise 2.0" initiatives to the company's core business strategic objectives. Through enabling a strong global advocate network and allowing collaboration patterns to emerge, C3 enjoyed viral success in only 20 weeks, achieving 25,000 registered users, over 2000 new groups and generating over 1 million page views a month.
- Social Business Software Champion(s) - Two winners were selected in this category: Kaiser Permanente and Swiss Re.
- Kaiser Permanente's IdeaBook, powered by Jive, is an internal online community aimed at capitalizing on the strength of its 165,000 employees and 14,000 physicians by facilitating knowledge sharing and increasing collaboration and productivity. IdeaBook's rising adoption among employees -- it's adding more than 2,000 users per month -- has been made possible by the efforts of a dedicated and thoughtful communication and technology planning team, key leader participation and advocacy efforts such as real life case studies and user anecdotes.
- Swiss Re operates in more than 20 countries and provides its expertise and services as an reinsurer for property and casualty as well as life and health business. Traditional reinsurance products are complemented by insurance-based corporate finance solutions. Swiss Re took a community centric approach to collaboration and provided a business platform for virtual teams, expert networks, projects, learning groups and other communities. More than 10,000 employees got access to the tool and within two weeks after the launch, more than 130 new groups were created.
Commentary
- David Levin, United Business Media Limited, Chief Executive Officer said, "The social media movement is important to UBM and to many of our customers. UBM runs the Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 events that showcase the transformative power of social media. Social media technology is also at the heart of how UBM's business operates. We are fusing social media with most of our live events as well as building virtual environments and communities on social media platforms. Internally the UBM wiki is now a key resource that helps more than 5,000 of our people, working in our 15 businesses in more than 30 countries: 'Connect, Communicate and Collaborate' is the tagline we have adopted for the UBM wiki."
- "We continue to be inspired by the work our customers are doing," said Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software. "Their creativity, enthusiasm and partnership is the cornerstone of our success as a company."
Additional Resources
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
Media Contacts
Bronwyn Saglimbeni
Reidy Communications for Jive
408-414-7250
bronwyn@reidycommunications.com
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Jive Delivers New Native Application for iPhone and Enhanced Capabilities for Smartphones
Portland, OR - October 28, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced Jive Mobile, a new module for Jive Social Business Software (SBS) that enables mobile workers to easily connect with people and resources while they are out of the office. Jive Mobile provides a native application for Apple's iPhone and a significantly enhanced experience for the BlackBerry and any other email enabled mobile devices.
- The Jive Mobile iPhone App provides Apple iPhone or Apple iPod Touch users full access to Jive SBS for online networking and collaboration. Jive Mobile also lets users leverage the unique properties of the iPhone, including integration with mobile contacts, geolocation updates, and the built-in camera.
- Jive Mobile extends the basic core email functionality of Jive SBS - reply via mail to discussion threads - to allow users of any mobile device with e-mail access to create and post Jive community content via email.
- Jive Mobile is available as an add-on module to Jive SBS Version 4, also announced today. For more information on Jive SBS 4.0, see today's news release.
Product Highlights: Jive SBS Mobile for the iPhone
- With Jive SBS Mobile, iPhone users can work inside Jive essentially the same way they do on their desktop:
- Find the people you need by tapping into rich profiles and one-touch call information
- Find and share the content you need with full search, link, and send capabilities
- Engage with others on specific projects or business issues through discussion threads, blogs, documents, comments, and replies
- Stay up to date with what people are saying and doing by following activity based on your colleagues and connections
- iPhone or iPod Touch users can download Jive SBS Mobile directly from the iTunes App Store to connect with their enterprise's license of Jive Mobile.
Product Highlights: Jive SBS Mobile for Smart-phones
- In its core functionality, Jive SBS enables users to reply to email notifications generated from content users follow. With Jive SBS Mobile, users can now create content via email as well, such as creating new blogs, discussions, documents, and status updates.
- Leveraging vCard technology, Jive associates profile data of each Jive community space to an email address. Jive SBS users simply download the vCard for a particular space or group to their BlackBerry contacts list to participate in or create a discussion, document, or blog within that space. Email notifications from particular spaces and groups provide links to reply to the content as well as links to create new content to facilitate direct authoring capabilities.
Jive Commentary
- "The explosion of social networking onto the mobile phone scene has demonstrated what is possible when you allow people to stay connected, regardless of where they are," said Christopher Morace, SVP Products of Jive Software. "Now, mobile workers can connect and collaborate with colleagues participating in critical business conversations, anytime, anywhere."
- "For the past two years, Jive has been critical for Knowledge Infusion in delivering on-demand consulting services, extending our value proposition to clients, and creating a new revenue stream for the company," said Jason Corsello, Vice President, Knowledge Infusion, a leading human resource consulting firm. "Our services are designed to help HR, IT, and business leaders maximize their HR and talent management technology investments on a holistic level. The introduction of Jive Mobile will provide firms like ours with the opportunity to engage via mobile, with our community of customers, partners, employees, and influencers. Not only does Jive Mobile's access for the iPhone, Blackberry and other devices solve one of the largest challenges we face, but we also see this as an accelerator to driving the introduction of new on-demand business models and offerings built off of the Jive platform."
Product Availability
- The Jive Mobile module is generally available as an add-on to Jive SBS 4.0.
Additional Resources
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
Media Contacts
Bronwyn Saglimbeni
Reidy Communications for Jive
408-414-7250
bronwyn@reidycommunications.com
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Jive Bridging socializes activities from public sites to keep enterprises in tune with the relationships that most directly impact their business
Portland, OR - October 28, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced an enhanced version of the Jive Bridging Module in Jive Social Business Software (SBS) 4.0. Going well beyond what others define as Social CRM, Jive Bridging enables companies to foster internal dialogue around customer and partner community conversations, making it easier to engage in these conversations directly.
- With Jive Bridging, employees can now easily pull high-impact conversations that take place in any of their public Jive communities - such as recurring customer issues or channel partner needs - into the private Jive employee community for internal discussion behind the firewall and seamlessly push thoughtful responses back. Jive Bridging addresses the needs of several lines of business:
- Marketing and sales teams gain insight into customers and channel partners, quickly address concerns or opportunities, identify key trends, make prospects visible to sales, and promote customer successes.
- Innovation teams have an around-the-clock venue for collecting, sharing, discussing and taking action on ideas and feedback while eliminating the "black box" feeling that customers, partners, and suppliers often have when submitting ideas.
- Support teams can improve customer service levels by bringing broad internal visibility to questions exposed in the public community. With Jive Bridging they can quickly escalate, discuss, and address issues and concerns and publish the best response to the community in a single click.
Market Perspective
- Public communities have become a critical component of an enterprise's social networking strategies to encourage conversations and interactions among customers, prospective customers, partners, and suppliers. These communities represent a wealth of information about the needs, issues, and goals of these constituents, but most enterprises don't have the right tools in place to fully understand or take advantage of what is happening on these sites. As online communities proliferate, customer service, marketing, and product teams need a way to not only monitor these sites but also participate in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Unlike the limitations of competitive solutions, Jive Bridging provides an interactive window from an enterprise's Jive employee community into their public Jive communities to monitor and influence the conversations taking place there and to streamline the process for broadcasting observations and coordinating responses.
Product Highlights
- With Jive Bridging, users can have a centralized view of people, content, and activity on public communities and sub-communities, including posts, discussion threads, and blogs. On their personalized homepage, users can:
- add widgets, such as Recent Content, "follow" or friend specific people, and bookmark specific content from the community they are following;
- pull conversations from the public community into the employee community and notify groups and specific individuals of community observations;
- easily post all or part of the employee discussion back within the initial public community;
- use community dialogue as a guideline to improve service, drive innovation, and foster customer loyalty.
Jive Commentary
- "The true value of Social Business Software lies in connecting all of the audiences that make up an extended enterprise - employees, customers, prospective customers, suppliers, and partners," said Chris Morace, Senior Vice President of Products at Jive Software. "Jive Bridging delivers the insight into key conversations and breaks down the barriers for enterprises to participate in a truly authentic dialogue that improves service, drives innovation, and fosters customer loyalty."
- "The promise of communities - both internal and external - has always been to truly facilitate conversation, collaboration and interaction," said Claire Flanagan, Senior Manager for KM and Enterprise Social Collaboration for CSC. "Jive Bridging delivers on this promise by allowing businesses to have a clear window into an enterprise's extended client or partner communities and by providing an integrated way to collaborate internally on important topics raised in these communities."
Product Availability
- Jive Bridging is generally available as an add-on module to Jive SBS 4.0.
Additional Resources
- Jive Director of Marketing Blog on Jive Bridging
- Jive Bridging web page
- Jive Bridging screen shots
- Jive Software Website
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
Media Contacts
Bronwyn Saglimbeni
Reidy Communications for Jive
408-414-7250
bronwyn@reidycommunications.com
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Jive Extends its Social Layer Deep into the Enterprise, Wide Across the Firewall, and Out into the Marketplace
Portland, OR - October 28, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced the general availability of Jive Social Business Software (SBS) 4.0. The new offering is the largest, most ambitious release Jive Software has brought to market since the company first introduced its integrated SBS platform for enterprises.
- Jive SBS 4.0 enables organizations to extend SBS across every level of an enterprise to literally transform how people work, partner, and address the marketplace. The enhancements and new capabilities in Jive SBS 4.0 reflect the increasing transparency between users' work and social networking habits - and amplify the strategic advantages inherent in bringing those worlds together. With SBS 4.0, Jive extends SBS further out into the marketplace, deep into the enterprise, wide across the firewall, and out on the road.
Product Highlights:
- Jive Mobile for the iPhone and Blackberry - This new module allows users to create content and participate in active discussions from the iPhone and/or Blackberry, or any mobile or desktop device with access to email. The native iPhone application offers a rich experience, giving users full access to Jive SBS functionality in addition to leveraging the unique properties of the iPhone, including integration with your mobile contacts and increased relevancy around location and data syncing. For more information, please see the Jive Mobile press release below:
- Jive Bridging Module - Enterprises need to act more responsive and generate more insight and value from their online customer and partner communities. But these peer-to-peer interactions, both internally and externally, have been historically limited by existing solutions. Jive has added significant enhancements to its Bridging module to let employees capture relevant conversations taking place in their public communities, share them internally, collect and consolidate responses, and go back out across the firewall to post a response. Moving beyond the monitoring or collaboration status quo, Jive Bridging in Jive SBS 4.0 lets users sustain a continuous, bidirectional dialogue with the people around whom their business is centered.
- Jive Connects for Microsoft Office - The Jive Microsoft Office Connector enables Jive SBS 4.0 users to work on any Microsoft Office document, spreadsheet or presentation in Jive or on their desktop. When users create and save Office content on their desktop it is automatically published to Jive where the content is rendered for viewing and commenting directly from the browser. Additionally, users can view and reply to comments made in the browser directly from the plug-in in Microsoft Office. The Jive Microsoft Office Connector further improves team productivity by enabling document co-authoring, allowing multiple contributors to make comments and changes to an Office file simultaneously with automatic synchronization of each other's changes. For example, one user can work on the graphics of a PowerPoint presentation while another is working on the script and see changes in the file as they happen. The Jive Microsoft Office Connector also eliminates reliance on email to share and review content by making it easy for any authorized user to access every saved document.
- Jive Analytics Module - The Jive Analytics Module provides a powerful set of tools for community managers to quickly quantify and characterize the growth and success of their communities. A comprehensive set of key community activity reports is presented via the analytics console, including reports on adoption, participation, and top content, spaces, groups and users. The reports also serve as templates than can easily be customized through an intuitive interface to meet the specific measurement needs of individual customers and specific business questions. Jive Analytics extends the comprehensive data warehouse of end-user activity captured by the Jive SBS platform. This rich collection of data gives community managers and business users significant visibility into community dynamics.
- Jive SBS Foundational Improvements: As users networking and collaboration needs have evolved, Jive has continued to lead the market in developing enterprise-level capabilities to drive broad SBS adoption. Jive SBS 4.0 takes that commitment one step further, adding several enhancements to the core Jive SBS functionality that address evolving enterprise-wide SBS usability, scalability, security and privacy requirements. Some of those enhancements include:
- Improved content organization and presentation capabilities enhance the entire experience for creating, discovering and sharing information within Jive SBS. This in turn accelerates content creation and allows people to easily identify and respond to critical business issues.
- A streamlined new user experience improves community adoption rates and reduces the need for new user training while speeding their use of new and hidden features within Jive SBS.
- Performance, administration, and scalability improvements assure a quality experience for all users, which contribute to community adoption and growth while providing administrators with the tools required to maintain and improve a global community.
- To learn more about these enhancements, go to http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/whats-new.
Jive Commentary
- "With Jive SBS 4.0, we are introducing our most ambitious set of innovations since the product's inception in 2006," said Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software. "This is primarily in response to a tremendous hunger in the market for a Social Business Software solution that goes deeper into their work lives."
- "We are truly experiencing a second wave of adoption," Hersh added. "For the past few years, many companies watched from the sidelines to see how this space would play out. Now, it is undeniable - the business value is there, the demand from customers, employees and partners is there, and with Jive SBS 4.0, the solutions meet the needs of even the most complex and sophisticated global enterprise."
- "To convince some of our key leaders to adopt Jive, we needed to show them some powerful features that would significantly improve the way they work," said Jennifer Bouani, Manager of Interactive Communications at Manheim, the world's largest auto reseller. "With Microsoft Office and SharePoint integrations, we have exactly what we need. The new analytics offerings allow us to effectively measure our approach to community-building and communications to ensure we meet our business goals."
- "Jive's new SBS 4.0 shows what a high performance workplace really looks like," said Andrew Easton, Head of Architecture of Bupa, a leading health and care company with 52,000 employees and over 10 million customers in more than 190 countries. "Solutions from Jive are helping bridge the gap between the old way of communicating and collaborating via email ping-pong and time consuming version control and the growing demand for multiple people with different skills to jointly work together in seamless, user friendly, and powerful way."
- "At K12, we understand the value of connecting people," said Dianne Conley, VP of Marketing Systems for K12, the leader in online learning for grades K through 12. "Jive is taking an already powerful social business platform to a new level with the Jive SBS 4.0 release, bringing the best of social media monitoring, a deep Microsoft Office integration, and a better way to connect with our customers."
Product Availability
- Jive SBS 4.0 is available immediately.
Additional Resources
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
Media Contacts
Aaron Wessels
Reidy Communications for Jive
(415) 643-8090
aaronw@reidycommunications.com
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Portland, OR -- October 23, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced that Gartner, Inc. positioned Jive in the Leaders Quadrant of its 2009 report "Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace." (1) Gartner positions vendors in the "Leaders" quadrant based on completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision.
- According to Gartner, "Leaders are well established vendors with widely used social software and collaboration offerings. Their leadership is being established through an early recognition of user needs in this market, their overall market presence, and their success in delivering user-friendly and solution focussed suites with broad capabilities."
- Built with the best features of collaboration software, community software, and popular social applications, Jive Social Business Software enables businesses to connect and capitalize on the intellectual and creative content of employee and customer conversations.
Jive Commentary
- "We believe Jive's Leader position in Gartner's new 'Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace' is another example of the strong validation we're receiving for our approach to transforming how work gets done in the global enterprise and for our market momentum," said Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software. "Jive is committed to enabling our customers to identify and solve critical challenges inside and outside their organization. I'd like to recognize the entire Jive team for their efforts in expanding the reach and possibilities of Social Business Software."
Additional Resources
(1) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace," by Nikos Drakos et al., Oct. 22, 2009
About the Magic Quadrant
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Jive, the maker of a all-in-one social enterprise software, has raised $12 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital. Jive previously raised $15 million in Series A funding from Sequoia in August of 2007.
Jive has lined up $12 million in additional funding. He explained why Jive wanted the money, and what it plans to spend it on. "This is definitely all about growth," he said.
Portland-based Jive Software certainly has a little more ammo in the old war chest. And it's all thanks to another investment from Sequoia Capital—to the tune of $12 million.