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Jive Unveils 'The Jive Social Network'
Introduces The New Way to Partner
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software announced today The Jive Social Network, the first industry partner program that brings together Social Business leaders across advisory, technology and consulting disciplines into a unified global ecosystem of excellence. With this program, Jive is enabling enterprises to accelerate their Social Business adoption by providing a single point of access to the best talent and technology available in the industry.
The Jive Social Network gives customers the confidence of proven expertise and technology to drive breakthrough outcomes and avoid expensive mistakes or failed experiments. They can select Jive-certified strategic Social Business solutions that best fit their goals, industry requirements and deployment needs. Partners can tap into Jive's extensive knowledge base of best practices, have access to leading developers and get advanced visibility into Jive's product roadmap.
"Social Business is transforming the way business is done," said Christopher Morace, SVP of Business Development at Jive. "Today we are introducing the new way to partner. We are bringing together the top leaders across the Social Business landscape to give customers unparalleled access to the deepest expertise and latest innovation available to best position them for success."
The Jive Social Network includes Jive Alliance, Jive Apps and Jive Strategic Technology Partners.
Jive Alliance Partners
Jive Alliance Partners include large global management consultants that provide strategic advisory, change management, custom services, products and solutions on the Jive platform including industry or vertical specialization. They include global leaders such as Accenture, CSC, Infosys, Logica and SapientNitro.
Jive's Alliance Partners also include select leading regional and boutique consultancies whose focused areas of expertise and accessibility can be matched to any clients' unique requirements.
"The Social Business market is one of the newest and fastest growing sectors in our practice, where the rules of engagement are being redefined in real-time. The expanded Jive partner ecosystem will benefit the entire Social Business industry, and in particular, customers," said Steve Warner, Head of Customer Intelligence and Business Information Management at Logica UK. "It will provide centralized access to industry-leading Social Business services and solutions across the entire adoption lifecycle: from strategy, requirements gathering and software selection, to implementation and solution customization."
Jive Apps Partners
Jive App Partners represent the most innovative cloud companies. They share Jive's mission to change the way that work gets done in the enterprise. Using the APIs within the Jive Apps Framework, Jive Apps Partners can immediately make their solutions social and have direct access to millions of enterprise users. Through the Jive Apps Market, these partners can offer subscription plans for a single employee or an entire enterprise.
Jive Apps Partners include: Appirio, Box, Gliffy, Jive Social Media Engagement, Lingotek, RoundPegg, Rypple, SalesCrunch, Spigit, SurveyGizmo and Tungle.
"The Jive Social Network is a win-win situation for customers, Jive and Jive's partners, including Rypple," said David Stein, co-CEO at Rypple. "The Jive Apps Market is the quickest way for clients to adopt cloud applications through one-click activation into the leading Social Business platform, immediate visibility to apps your colleagues are using, and enterprise line of sight into adoption."
Jive Strategic Technology Partners
Strategic Technology Partners are best-of-breed technology vendors and solution providers that extend Jive's core platform capabilities through deep integration, Jive Connects and Jive APIs. Strategic Technology Partners include Alfresco, Akamai and Appirio.
"We are thrilled to be part of Jive's global partner program," said John Newton, Alfresco CTO. "Social Business systems like Jive are enabling new ways of collaboration in the enterprise and users are adopting them quickly. Enterprises can have the best of both worlds - by combining Jive's best of breed Social Business technology with Alfresco's best of breed ECM, enterprise content becomes both social and organized, resulting in more effective employees & well-managed enterprise content."
The Jive Social Network is available immediately. For more information, visit http://www.jivesoftware.com/partners.
About Social Business
Social Business is the new way to engage employees, customers and the social web. Jive's Social Business software combines the power of community software, collaboration software, social networking software, and social media monitoring offerings into an integrated platform. Just as social technologies have changed our personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises create competitive advantage.
About Jive - The New Way to Business
Jive is the largest and fastest growing independent Social Business Software company in the world. Jive is funded by Sequoia Capital and by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. For more information, visit http://www.jivesoftware.com.
SOURCE Jive Software
Jive Software
CONTACT: Ana Andreescu of Jive Software, +1-650-319-1975, ana.andreescu@jivesoftware.com; or Lacey Haines of Bite Communications for Jive Software, +1-415-365-0482, lacey.haines@bitecommunications.com
Web Site: http://www.jivesoftware.com
Jive Unveils 'The Jive Social Network'
Introduces The New Way to Partner
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software announced today The Jive Social Network, the first industry partner program that brings together Social Business leaders across advisory, technology and consulting disciplines into a unified global ecosystem of excellence. With this program, Jive is enabling enterprises to accelerate their Social Business adoption by providing a single point of access to the best talent and technology available in the industry.
The Jive Social Network gives customers the confidence of proven expertise and technology to drive breakthrough outcomes and avoid expensive mistakes or failed experiments. They can select Jive-certified strategic Social Business solutions that best fit their goals, industry requirements and deployment needs. Partners can tap into Jive's extensive knowledge base of best practices, have access to leading developers and get advanced visibility into Jive's product roadmap.
"Social Business is transforming the way business is done," said Christopher Morace, SVP of Business Development at Jive. "Today we are introducing the new way to partner. We are bringing together the top leaders across the Social Business landscape to give customers unparalleled access to the deepest expertise and latest innovation available to best position them for success."
The Jive Social Network includes Jive Alliance, Jive Apps and Jive Strategic Technology Partners.
Jive Alliance Partners
Jive Alliance Partners include large global management consultants that provide strategic advisory, change management, custom services, products and solutions on the Jive platform including industry or vertical specialization. They include global leaders such as Accenture, CSC, Infosys, Logica and SapientNitro.
Jive's Alliance Partners also include select leading regional and boutique consultancies whose focused areas of expertise and accessibility can be matched to any clients' unique requirements.
"The Social Business market is one of the newest and fastest growing sectors in our practice, where the rules of engagement are being redefined in real-time. The expanded Jive partner ecosystem will benefit the entire Social Business industry, and in particular, customers," said Steve Warner, Head of Customer Intelligence and Business Information Management at Logica UK. "It will provide centralized access to industry-leading Social Business services and solutions across the entire adoption lifecycle: from strategy, requirements gathering and software selection, to implementation and solution customization."
Jive Apps Partners
Jive App Partners represent the most innovative cloud companies. They share Jive's mission to change the way that work gets done in the enterprise. Using the APIs within the Jive Apps Framework, Jive Apps Partners can immediately make their solutions social and have direct access to millions of enterprise users. Through the Jive Apps Market, these partners can offer subscription plans for a single employee or an entire enterprise.
Jive Apps Partners include: Appirio, Box, Gliffy, Jive Social Media Engagement, Lingotek, RoundPegg, Rypple, SalesCrunch, Spigit, SurveyGizmo and Tungle.
"The Jive Social Network is a win-win situation for customers, Jive and Jive's partners, including Rypple," said David Stein, co-CEO at Rypple. "The Jive Apps Market is the quickest way for clients to adopt cloud applications through one-click activation into the leading Social Business platform, immediate visibility to apps your colleagues are using, and enterprise line of sight into adoption."
Jive Strategic Technology Partners
Strategic Technology Partners are best-of-breed technology vendors and solution providers that extend Jive's core platform capabilities through deep integration, Jive Connects and Jive APIs. Strategic Technology Partners include Alfresco, Akamai and Appirio.
"We are thrilled to be part of Jive's global partner program," said John Newton, Alfresco CTO. "Social Business systems like Jive are enabling new ways of collaboration in the enterprise and users are adopting them quickly. Enterprises can have the best of both worlds - by combining Jive's best of breed Social Business technology with Alfresco's best of breed ECM, enterprise content becomes both social and organized, resulting in more effective employees & well-managed enterprise content."
The Jive Social Network is available immediately. For more information, visit http://www.jivesoftware.com/partners.
About Social Business
Social Business is the new way to engage employees, customers and the social web. Jive's Social Business software combines the power of community software, collaboration software, social networking software, and social media monitoring offerings into an integrated platform. Just as social technologies have changed our personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises create competitive advantage.
About Jive - The New Way to Business
Jive is the largest and fastest growing independent Social Business Software company in the world. Jive is funded by Sequoia Capital and by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. For more information, visit http://www.jivesoftware.com.
SOURCE Jive Software
Jive Software
CONTACT: Ana Andreescu of Jive Software, +1-650-319-1975, ana.andreescu@jivesoftware.com; or Lacey Haines of Bite Communications for Jive Software, +1-415-365-0482, lacey.haines@bitecommunications.com
Web Site: http://www.jivesoftware.com