http://www.jivesoftware.com/news Jive Software News Articles and Press Releases Feed http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/uv6OSYM5PR0/jive-stakes-larger-bay-area-presence-with-new-palo-alto-office <p><em>Move required to accommodate accelerated growth in Silicon Valley and growing adoption of Social Business Software</em></p> <p>Portland, OR and Palo Alto, CA - November 17, 2009<strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Company News</strong></p> <ul> <li>Jive, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">Social Business Software</a>&nbsp;leader, today announced the opening of its new Bay Area office at 735 Emerson Street in Palo Alto.&nbsp; 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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Jive is currently hiring aggressively in the Bay Area, with <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/about/careers">several open positions</a> in engineering, product management, professional services and marketing.&nbsp;</li> <li>The move comes at a time when Jive continues to <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/community/jivetalks/blog/2009/10/20/some-great-news-to-share">achieve record growth</a> -- with Q3 of 2009 growing more than 100% as compared to Q3 of 2008 - and follows news of the <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/releases/2009/10/jive-announces-jive-social-business-software-40">company's largest-ever product launch</a>, receiving <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/releases/2009/10/jive-software-secures-12-million-in-series-b-funding-from-sequoia-capital-to-accelerate-growth">$12M in Series B funding from Sequoia</a>, and being positioned in the <a href="http://resources.jivesoftware.com/content/promo_reg_gartner-mq-workforce-2009">Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's "&nbsp;Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace.</a>"</li> <li>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.&nbsp; RSVP at <a href="mailto:events@jivesoftware.com">events@jivesoftware.com</a>.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Commentary</strong></p> <ul> <li>"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."</li> </ul> <p><strong>Additional Resources</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">Jive Software Website</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>About Jive Software<br /> </strong>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 <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/employee-community">social networking software</a>, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">collaboration software</a>, and <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products">community software</a> 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.</p> <p><strong>Media Contacts<br /> </strong>Aaron Wessels<br />Reidy Communications for Jive<br />415-643-8090<a href="mailto:bronwyn@reidycommunications.com"><br />aaronw@reidycommunications.com</a></p> <p>###</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/uv6OSYM5PR0" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-11-17T10:30:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/releases/2009/11/jive-stakes-larger-bay-area-presence-with-new-palo-alto-office http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/D3VptRmGMYM/the-organisation-for-economic-cooperation-and-development-improves-external-interaction-and-collaboration-with-jive <p>PORTLAND, OR, Nov. 16, 2009<strong></strong></p> <p><strong>News</strong></p> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Jive Commentary</strong></p> <ul> <li>"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."</li> <li>"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."</li> <li>"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."</li> </ul> <p><strong>About OECD</strong></p> <p>The OECD (<a href="http://www.oecd.org/">www.oecd.org</a>) brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world to: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Support sustainable economic growth</li> <li>Boost employment</li> <li>Raise living standards</li> <li>Maintain financial stability</li> <li>Assist other countries' economic development</li> <li>Contribute to growth in world trade</li> </ul> <p>The Organisation provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies.</p> <p><strong>About Jive Software</strong></p> <p>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 <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/employee-community">social networking software</a>, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">collaboration software</a>, and <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products">community software</a> 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.<strong><br /> <br /> </strong><strong>Media Contacts</strong></p> <p>Aaron Wessels<br />Reidy Communications for Jive<br />(415) 643-8090<a href="mailto:aaronw@reidycommunications.com"><br />aaronw@reidycommunications.com</a><strong></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>###</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/D3VptRmGMYM" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/releases/2009/11/the-organisation-for-economic-cooperation-and-development-improves-external-interaction-and-collaboration-with-jive http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/-kD1mK-qj18/jive-software-and-top-marketing-executives-to-share-social-business-software-success-at-exclusive-cmo-thought-leadership-summit <p><em>Jive to show CMOs how to use Social Business Software for connecting with customers and participating in brand conversations on the social web</em></p> <p>San Francisco, CA - November 10, 2009<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong>Company News</strong></p> <ul> <li>Jive, the <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">Social Business Software</a> 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.</li> <li>Jive has partnered with the CMO Club to sponsor the summit as the only Social Business Software CMO Thought Leadership Summit Partner.</li> <li>The <a href="http://www.thecmoclubsummit.com">CMO Thought Leadership Summit</a>, "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.&nbsp; 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.</li> <li>In September, Jive introduced <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/solutions/market-engagement">Jive Market Engagement</a>, a new solution for marketing teams that combines the power of social media monitoring with Social Business Software.&nbsp; 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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Additional Resources</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">Jive Software Website</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.thecmoclubsummit.com/index.htm">The CMO Thought Leadership Summit</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>About Jive Software</strong></p> <p>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 <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/employee-community">social networking software</a>, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">collaboration software</a>, and <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products">community software</a> into the first solution to<strong> </strong>effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.</p> <p><strong>Media Contacts<br /> </strong>Aaron Wessels<br />Reidy Communications for Jive<br />415-643-8090<a href="mailto:aaronw@reidycommunications.com"><br />aaronw@reidycommunications.com</a><br /> <br /> ###</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/-kD1mK-qj18" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-11-09T21:00:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/releases/2009/11/jive-software-and-top-marketing-executives-to-share-social-business-software-success-at-exclusive-cmo-thought-leadership-summit http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/8An5_HYzui4/2009 <p>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.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/8An5_HYzui4" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-11-06T02:15:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/articles/2009#306 http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/diUpNhxUPeg/jive-congratulates-customer-claire-flanagan-of-csc-recipient-of--20-adoption-councils-internal-evangelist-of-the-year-award <p>San Francisco, CA - Enterprise 2.0 Conference - November 4, 2009<br /> <br /> <strong>Company News</strong></p> <ul> <li>Jive, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">Social Business Software</a>&nbsp;leader, today congratulated Jive customer Claire Flanagan, Senior Manager, Knowledge Program and Enterprise Social Collaboration, at <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/companies/csc">Computer Sciences Corporation</a> for being awarded the 2.0 Adoption Council's "Internal Evangelist of the Year." </li> <li>The <a href="http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com/Blog/">2.0 Adoption Council</a> awarded its inaugural, prestigious "Internal Evangelist of the Year" award on November 3 at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.&nbsp; 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." &nbsp;The award was presented to Flanagan by Andrew McAfee, widely regarded as the "father" of the enterprise 2.0 movement.</li> <li>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<strong>. </strong>CSC received the Community Adoption Award for the launch&nbsp;of its internal community "C3: Connect. Communicate. Collaborate."&nbsp; Under Flanagan's leadership, C3 enjoyed viral&nbsp;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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Jive Commentary</strong></p> <ul> <li>"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, &lsquo;I believe Claire's program marks a clear line in the sand, a before and after point in time for CSC.'"</li> <li>"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.&nbsp; "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."</li> </ul> <p><strong>Additional Resources</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.e2conf.com/e2tv/index.php?scale=2281&amp;active=7ee1cd47c8c7d7f4f7971ab2869c3322">Enterprise 2.0 E2TV broadcast of the Internal Evangelist of the Year award</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">Jive Software Website</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com/Blog/">2.0 Adoption Council</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/companies/csc">Computer Sciences Corporation</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>About 2.0 Adoption Council</strong></p> <p>The 2.0 Adoption Council was founded by SoCo Partners.&nbsp; 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 <a href="http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com/">http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com</a><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>About Jive Software</strong></p> <p>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,&nbsp;Jive combines&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/employee-community">social networking software</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com">collaboration software</a>,and <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products">community software</a> 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.</p> <p><strong>Media Contacts</strong></p> <p>Aaron Wessels<br />Reidy Communications for Jive<br />415-643-8090<a href="mailto:bronwyn@reidycommunications.com"><br />aaronw@reidycommunications.com</a><br /> <br /> ###</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/diUpNhxUPeg" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-11-04T00:00:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/releases/2009/11/jive-congratulates-customer-claire-flanagan-of-csc-recipient-of--20-adoption-councils-internal-evangelist-of-the-year-award http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/jvmxFE_jebY/2009 <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/jvmxFE_jebY" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-10-30T21:15:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/articles/2009#300 http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/S3cGqOm4te4/2009 <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/S3cGqOm4te4" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-10-30T00:00:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/articles/2009#299 http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/JUG8aoMdu3Y/2009 <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/JUG8aoMdu3Y" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-10-29T02:30:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/articles/2009#303 http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/64KvWi6j-ik/2009 <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/64KvWi6j-ik" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-10-29T00:00:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/articles/2009#301 http://feeds.jivesoftware.com/~r/JiveNews/~3/eIA_5T7tAHY/2009 <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiveNews/~4/eIA_5T7tAHY" height="1" width="1"/> 2009-10-29T00:00:00Z http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/articles/2009#304