Jive Software News Articles and Press Releases

Jive Brings Together Innovation Management and Communities

2010-03-02T03:30:00Z

A solid 2009 behind them, Jive Software has elected to accelerate their investment in SBS, starting with a new module for Innovation Management called Ideation.

Jive adds idea management app to collaboration suite

2010-03-02T02:30:00Z

Jive SBS workers can now capture, develop, and discuss ideas that could become projects.

Jive Software Launches Jive Ideation - Freeing Ideas to Flourish

2010-03-02T00:00:00Z

With Jive Ideation, Companies Tap the Power of Crowd-sourcing and Social Networks to Identify and Nurture the Best Ideas for Bigger Outcomes

March 2, 2010

News

Jive, the Social Business Software (SBS) leader, today announced Jive Ideation, the latest expansion to its lineup of top-rated SBS products.
Jive's customers routinely highlight the innovation that naturally occurs from the powerful collaboration capabilities of Jive SBS. A number of these customers asked Jive to tackle a more complex problem: how to free ideas from standalone innovation management products and Excel-based tools that leave ideas trapped in silos with little discussion or visibility.
Now, with Jive Ideation, Jive is adding more muscle to the process of capturing, organizing and prioritizing ideas generated by employees, customers, and partners. And, unlike existing offerings, Jive Ideation takes this one step further by supporting rich collaboration and vibrant discussions without drowning in a river of ideas.
For companies looking to cast the net wide, Jive Ideation can be extended with the social media monitoring capabilities of Jive Market Engagement. Used together, Jive customers can incorporate real-time market insights from Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks to enrich and accelerate the innovation lifecycle.

Product Detail

Jive SBS is already a touchstone for innovation because it naturally connects people, ideas, and information without regard to time zones, geographies, or hierarchies. By adding Jive Ideation, companies can draw inspiration and opinion from a much wider audience of employees, customers, and partners through a set of powerful features designed for the complex realities of today's markets.
- Customer community members and employee community members can create, vote on, and discuss ideas with peers through Jive's best-in-class interface that invites broad participation.
- Product and R&D employees can easily organize and prioritize ideas by stage, most popular ideas, and most active discussions - and then share those findings with their colleagues.
- Only Jive bridges customer and employee communities. As a result, employees can easily monitor idea creation and progression from within their Jive SBS employee community, enabling them to keep a constant pulse on the voice of the market.
- Moderators have a number of customizable workflow tools to manage the ideation process from capturing and evaluating ideas through implementation, ensuring that the best ideas quickly bubble up to the right people for rapid decision making and action.
- With a transparent collaboration process, customers and partners can track how their input aligns with that of their community peers and the enterprise. Enterprises can also recognize and reward top idea generators and participants.

Supporting Quotes

"It's a dog fight to find The Next Big Idea," said Ben Kiker, CMO of Jive Software. "Quickly finding and surfacing that idea in an efficient way is one of the keys to competitive advantage, market share and profits. For organizations that consider innovation core to their culture, they'll love Jive Ideation."
"The SAP® Community Network plays a critical role in helping SAP to develop and prioritize new ideas for solutions that meet our customer needs," said Anne Hardy, vice president, Technology, Office of the CTO, SAP Labs LLC. "Having now seen the Jive Ideation Module, it is clear the software could play a role in increasing effectiveness in these areas and in managing the projects in private areas until they are ready for a public roll out."
"Our ability to harness employee ideas is a key part of our innovation strategy," said J.C. Groon, Head of Innovation Programs of NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions. "Success in our innovation program depends on our ability to enable our employees to interact across geographic and functional boundaries and innovate together. We are impressed with how Jive is approaching both pieces of the equation, and based on our use of Jive Ideation, it will have a significant impact on our innovation program."

Product Availability

The Jive Ideation module is available now for existing Jive customers. Click here for more information.

Additional Resources

About Jive Software
"How can we work better together and connect with customers in a more authentic way?" Every day millions of people experience the answer: Jive Social Business Software (SBS), which is driving the biggest change to business practices in decades. Jive SBS takes all the great things people love about social networking software, collaboration software, and community software and makes those work for business. That's why many of the brands that drive the global economy - including Cisco, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Intel, NIKE Inc., SAP, Swiss Re, T-Mobile and Yum! Brands - and thousands of other companies all Jive. Jive is number one in Social Business Software, with the most extensive solution, the largest implementations, and unmatched expertise in delivering value.

# # #

SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries.

All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

SAP Forward-looking Statement

Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intend," "may," "plan," "project," "predict," "should" and "will" and similar expressions as they relate to SAP are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations The factors that could affect SAP's future financial results are discussed more fully in SAP's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including SAP's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.

Media Contacts
Aaron Wessels
Reidy Communications for Jive
(415) 643-8090
aaronw@reidycommunications.com

Jive Joins Salesforce.com, Spigit in Idea Management Software

2010-03-02T00:00:00Z

Collaboration application maker Jive Software is adding idea management to its arsenal with Jive Ideation. Jive Ideation helps employees, customers and partners form communities around specific ideas, such as product or service creation.

Fiserv Delivers Thought Leadership Community Exclusively for its Financial Institution Clients

2010-03-02T00:00:00Z

To fulfill this vision of interactive communities, Fiserv selected Jive Software as its partner to deliver the Boardroom Series. A leader in online community software, Jive Software was highlighted in Gartner, Inc.'s 2009 "Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workforce". The next-generation enterprise communication and social business platform is scalable for meeting the long term plans Fiserv has to connect with clients through popular online community functionality.

One on One with Matt Tucker of Jive Software

2010-02-23T00:00:00Z

Changing Of the Guard: Jive Software Brings On New CEO

2010-02-22T19:00:00Z

Tony Zingale Takes the Reins as Jive Software's CEO

2010-02-22T12:45:00Z

Dave Hersh Elevated to Chairman of Jive’s Board of Directors after Leading Jive To the Top of the Social Business Software Market

February 22, 2010

News

Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced that Jive board member Tony Zingale has become Jive’s CEO on an interim basis. Concurrently, Dave Hersh has been elected to the role of Chairman of Jive’s Board of Directors. Hersh will continue to work with Jive’s board and executive team on the company’s strategy and growth plan.
Jive’s board of directors has begun a search for a permanent CEO, and is already evaluating candidates with experience in leading enterprise technology firms through transformational growth periods.
Zingale, whose nearly three decade career includes experience building profitable, high growth enterprise software companies, will lead Jive as the company begins a period of significant investment to further extend its leadership in the rapidly growing Social Business Software (SBS) market.
Zingale most recently served as President and CEO of Mercury Interactive, the worldwide leader of Business Technology Optimization (BTO) solutions, where he successfully grew the company to over $1B in annual revenue. Prior to Mercury, he was President and CEO of Clarify, a leader in the highly competitive customer relationship management (CRM) market, where he grew the company to more than $300 million in annual revenue.

Supporting Quotes

"As I’ve shared with the Jive team, this is the time to put the foot on the gas given our momentum and unquestioned market leadership,” said Dave Hersh, chairman of the board, Jive Software. “Given the growth we expect over the next few years as social software dramatically changes the way work gets done, the Board and I decided to put a leadership structure in place that could maximize Jive’s opportunity. Tony’s guidance as a board member over the last two years has been invaluable, and we couldn’t ask for anyone better to lead Jive through this transition."
"Over the last two years I’ve watched Jive become the market leader and the company everyone watches in Social Business Software,” said Tony Zingale, CEO, Jive Software. “My message to the Jive community is 'get ready' – we came out of the gate strong this year, and there’s more to come. I’m thrilled to be working more closely with the Jive team as we invest aggressively across the company to extend our #1 position and bring the power of Social Business Software to customers around the world."
"We’re thrilled to have more of Tony’s time in combination with Dave’s ongoing guidance,"said Matt Tucker, co-founder and CTO of Jive. "On behalf of Jive’s co-founder Bill Lynch and all Jivers, we thank Dave for his contributions over the last eight and a half years. Dave’s leadership helped us achieve phenomenal growth and customer success as we navigated from our early days in New York to expanding the team, creating the Social Business Software category and overtaking competitors in the most difficult economic period in decades. Dave’s passion and commitment for this company is a model for all of us, and it’s fantastic that he’ll continue to be a part of Jive."

Additional Company News

In 2009 Jive continued its rapid momentum, increasing full year revenue 85% over 2008. That momentum is continuing in 2010, with strong demand for Jive’s Social Business Software solutions across all markets. As a result, Jive is accelerating hiring and beginning the build-out of an additional floor of the iconic Federal Reserve building in downtown Portland that serves as the company’s global headquarters. This expansion will also provide additional customer and partner meeting facilities.
Jive has fully integrated the acquisition of Boulder, CO-based Filtrbox into the company and is recruiting additional talent to accelerate the development of solutions that leverage the Filtrbox technology. To accommodate this growth, Jive has signed a lease for a significantly larger office in Boulder’s Pearl Street District. This will also enable Jive to tap into the burgeoning technology talent market in Boulder for other positions in the company.
Jive recently announced that JiveWorld, the SBS industry’s largest community conference, will be held September 14-16, 2010 in San Francisco. Based on last year’s sold out program and participant feedback, JiveWorld10 will feature a longer program and greater capacity to accommodate the growing Jive community.

Additional Resources

About Jive Software
"How can we work better together and connect with customers in a more authentic way?" Every day millions of people experience the answer: Jive Social Business Software (SBS), which is driving the biggest change to business practices in decades. Jive SBS takes all the great things people love about social networking software, collaboration software, and community software and makes those work for business. That’s why many of the brands that drive the global economy – including Cisco, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Intel, NIKE Inc., SAP, Swiss Re, T-Mobile and Yum! Brands – and thousands of other companies all Jive. Jive is number one in Social Business Software, with the most extensive solution, the largest implementations, and unmatched expertise in delivering value.

Media Contact
Dan Reidy Reidy Communications for Jive
(415) 497-3109
dan@reidycommunications.com

Is Jive Software Taking Steps Toward An IPO?

2010-02-22T08:15:00Z

Oh stewardess! I speak Jive: Tony Zingale replaces Dave Hersh as Jive Software CEO

2010-02-22T01:00:00Z

It's no secret that one of the companies here in Portland that motivated me to start Silicon Florist was Jive Software. Back in 2007, it was on the cusp of something big—but still a bit rough around the edges. But as we watched, it grew and matured and focused and changed. Growing, shrinking, and then growing again. Adding new funding and new executive talent. And transitioning.