Jive Advances Employee Engagement & Provides Instant Access To The People, Places And Content Needed To Get Work Done

New Jive-n release delivers ubiquitous employee communications across devices to ensure organizational alignment while embracing evolving workstyles

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Feb 26, 2015, 08:00 ET

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb, 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: JIVE) is improving organizational alignment and collaboration across distributed, diverse and mobile workforces with the latest version of Jive-n. The Jive-n Winter release delivers a simple, smart and seamless solution for managing both company-wide and audience-specific corporate communications across devices, fostering two-way dialogue that strengthens strategic alignment. In addition, enhanced search capabilities and integration with Google Docs™ and Microsoft SharePoint® further extend Jive as a central collaboration hub for companies.

.@jivesoftware Winter release advances employee engagement & provides instant access to the people, places & content needed to get work done.

"For so many people, their daily work routine starts with catching up on the latest news within their organization, including reading important updates from leadership and their colleagues," said Clara Liang, chief product officer at Jive Software. "At Jive we want to make this experience as seamless as possible – empowering employees to stay connected and informed across any device, while enabling companies to build fully aligned and engaged cultures."

Addresses Critical Employee Communication Requirements with Tailored News Homepage
With Jive-n, employee communications and HR departments can now auto-subscribe an entire community or subset of employees to specific news or blogs and measure impact within that audience – ensuring the right information effortlessly reaches its targeted audience. They can curate news streams based on an individual's department, office location, specific role, and more. In addition, Jive-n's brand-new News page delivers a visually engaging and prioritized summary view of the most important content for each user. For example, executive blogs can be up-leveled on each employee's News page to drive better alignment across the company.

Jive also delivers a ubiquitous experience for employees viewing news on the go. People can check out company messages on Jive's iOS and Android apps or through their mobile browsers, thanks to the responsive web technology first introduced in the Jive-n Fall release.

Jive-n customer Jessica de la Torre of BlueGreen Vacations noted: "The Jive-n Winter cloud release will help strengthen strategic alignment across our internal community of sales associates. With the latest updates, we will be able to instantly direct our users to content that enhances their job knowledge and enables them to sell better, thus positively impacting our bottom line revenue. Moreover, the tailored news pages will decrease the time it takes to onboard new associates, as we will be able to specifically guide them to training content straight from their news streams on any device."

Transforms the Digital Enterprise with a One-Stop Collaboration Hub
Jive continues to provide one of the best enterprise search experiences, delivering the most relevant results across content in Jive-n and other integrated applications. In addition, with this latest Jive-n release community leaders can now define and promote results for common keywords, making it easier for employees to find the right document even without using exact search terms. Community managers also now benefit from new search metrics, which help them understand top search terms and further refine search experiences.

Building on existing integrations with Microsoft and Google Docs, the Jive-n Winter release also delivers seamless collaboration experiences irrespective of whether documents are stored in SharePoint, Google Drive or any other file storage system.

Deeper connections with SharePoint. Jive has continued to enhance its Office 365™ integration with an update to the Jive Connector for SharePoint, now supporting claims-based authentication for connecting to Microsoft SharePoint.
Richer integration with Google Docs. In this latest upgrade, the Jive Connector for Google Docs adds impact metrics, so people can measure reach and sentiment for their shared documents. In addition, Jive-n now synchronizes instantaneously with Google Drive files.

Jive 8 Delivers the Most Powerful On-Premise and Hosted Collaboration Experience
Many new features of the Jive-n Winter cloud release will also be available in the on-premise and hosted versions of Jive's internal community solution. Jive 8 will be available starting in late March, combining the very best features from the past year's cloud releases within one experience for Jive's global on-premise and hosted customers.

About Jive Software
Jive (Nasdaq: JIVE) is the leading provider of modern communication and collaboration solutions for business. Recognized as a leader by the industry's top analyst firms in multiple categories, Jive enables employees, partners and customers to work better together. More information can be found at www.jivesoftware.com.

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