Jive News & Articles

Actively engaging enterprise teams is something Jive is proving to be quite good at, and now its investors can see the proof in the company's latest earnings results.

Imagine being in the throes of an exceptionally busy time at work, only to have your email box regularly deluged by a multi-week series of alerts regarding feminine napkins. Yes, this is a true story.

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It’s no longer enough to for employees to log onto the intranet to download a few company policies and start a chat about a project with a coworker. Employees need to be enticed with games and social features that makes them feel like they’re not really working. Jive is capitalizing on this trend by introducing gamification features and a social intranet solution.

KMWorld shared its latest picks for the 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.

This week, the web was buzzing with rumors about an iPad version of Office, which Microsoft quickly denied, Alfresco and Jive release a connector for socialized content, Treeno released v4.0 of its enterprise content management system, Varonis joins McAfee partner program, while Cintas and ScanMd get together for medical documents.

In March last year, Alfresco and Jive announced they were getting together to bring content management and social business software together. Today, they have announced the release of Jive Connector for Alfresco that enables cross-platform publishing between the two.

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Jive Software recently unveiled Fathom, a social media monitoring tool that lets organizations monitor and analyze social media conversations. The service comes in a free and premium variant, and is aimed at helping enterprises make the most out of their social media activities.

Though Jive's initial stock price was $12, the company opened trading today at $15.12 per share. A total of 13.4 million shares were sold, exceeding the 11.7 million shares originally planned.

If you didn't think there was money in social enterprise, then think again as Jive heads toward a public listing that could value it at over a half-billion dollars.

As in previous years, this week's SAP Sapphire conference has generated a number of interesting releases this week in the GRC space. Jive offered enterprises a way of keeping their social media compliant, while Krolls provided them the tools to DIY e-Discovery and C2C has simplified email archiving.

Adhering to electronic communications laws in the realm of social business can be tricky. Hoping to ease the process, Jive has partnered with Actiance, a company bent on improving the security, management and compliance of unified communications. 

There has been chatter since summer about enterprise social software vendor Jive Software having an initial public offering (IPO). It didn’t happen this summer, but it looks like the company will be getting some cash to keep it warm over the winter.