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The Mac version of Jive's updated Producteev

Social task management for free. That’s the appealing price tag of a rebuilt version of Producteev, the tool that Jive Software bought last fall. 

Following the acquisition of StreamOnce, which was announced in the Q1 earnings at the end of April, Jive Software has already started releasing products around the buy. Today, it announces the release of StreamOnce that ultimately will bring a whole pile of major business applications into a single place.

It can’t be said often enough: the companies who use data the best will win the future. 

Cloud-based document sharing provider, Box and social business software provider Jive, have released Box for Jive, which enables users to manage and share content across both platforms.

Social business provider Moxie Software has released its Collaboration Spaces technology, a social activity and workflow tool that will directly compete with Yammer and Jive.

Jive has been making the news quite a bit recently. A few weeks ago, their CEO Tony Zingale said "Free products don't deliver. We can talk about free trials, free use models to get people to engage, but freemium in the enterprise -- write it down, it's dead." Then a few days ago Zingale said, that the notion of “Facebook for the enterprise” is also dead.

Why email when there is social media? Knowledge workers are bogged down by tasks like responding to and reading emails, and by simply looking for the information they need to complete daily tasks. But can social business make them more productive, and make businesses run better?

Facebook for the enterprise is dead, and so is the freemium software model. Tony Zingale, CEO of Jive Software, wants everyone to know he is serious about social, and the industry as a whole won’t go where it needs to if it follows those models.

If you are considering implementing a Social CRM strategy, you should take some time to read what Adam Mertz, Director of Product Marketing at Jive Software, has to say about starting points, what successful Social CRMs include and what factors shape a competitive edge.

Social business leader Jive now has a new office and a new team of start-up founders thanks to its recent buyout of Meetings.io and Producteev. We recently spoke with Jive CEO Tony Zingale, CFO Bryan Leblanc and Meetings.io co-founder Denis Mars at Jive's new office in San Francisco to get some details on their plans for integrating the new teams into a successful company.

Gartner has just been published its latest edition of "Magic Quadrant for Social CRM" -- and with it, the challenges facing vendors in this space have finally been articulated. Not least of those problems is the need for vendors to demonstrate the economics of deploying these Social CRM systems in multiple customer relationship management use cases, including marketing, sales and customer service.

Now that Microsoft’s long-anticipated US$ 1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer has finally been announced and the dust has settled a bit, it’s worth taking a fresh look at what can be seen both as one of our industry’s most fascinating transactions and one of its worst-kept secrets.

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Among the sessions at the Advanced Intranet +Portals conference in Amsterdam today was a talk by Lars Mielke of Allianz about the development of its intranet and the process of moving its social networking application from Yammer to Jive.

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.