Jive and EMC to Present at Gilbane Conference

PORTLAND, Ore., April 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Company News

• Executives from Jive Software and EMC—a Jive customer and the only technology company among the Fortune Magazine's world's 10 most admired companies for product and service — are participating in the seventh annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference.
• Produced by the Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, the conference takes place May 18-20 at The Westin Market Street Hotel, San Francisco, CA. Jive participants will address two of the major themes of this year's conference: engaging customers and collaborating with colleagues via web and social technologies.
• The Gilbane Group is an analyst and consulting firm focused on content technologies. Jive's active participation is reflective of the growing relevance of Social Business Software to all enterprise applications, including web and content management.
• Attendees at the Gilbane conference represent 70% of the Global 2000 corporations, and they are drawn equally from IT and business—including a growing number of marketing disciplines.

Details: Jive's Presence at Gilbane Conference

• Ben Kiker, Chief Marketing Officer of Jive Software, participates in a panel on May 20 from 8:30 -9:30 AM entitled Social Analytics: The Key to ROI in Enterprise Social Software? This session examines how analysis of social software usage data can help produce credible demonstrations of ROI in enterprise social software.
• Bill Lynch, co-founder and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Jive Software, participates in a panel on May 20 from 9:40 – 10:40 AM entitled Real-Time Search -- Mining the Conversation for Immediate Results. This session explores the accelerating convergence of social content and search and identifies how this trend will impact everything from a business' online marketing strategy to the content of its employees' inboxes.
• Randy Ziegler, Director of the EMC Community Network, powered by Jive Social Business Software, participates in a panel on May 20 from 11:40 AM – 12:40 PM entitled Integrating External and Internal Social Efforts to Maximize Business Performance. This session uses customer case studies to demonstrate the business value created by integrating external and internal social collaboration efforts and to highlight some of the related challenges.

Jive SBS in Action at EMC | One

• EMC | ONE, the company's Jive-powered community, is designed to enable EMC employees to engage in continued dialogue and conversations, breaking down the barriers of company, geography and role while simultaneously creating better products, reducing costs, competing more effectively, and being more committed to each other and the company.
• EMC | ONE positively impacts many business processes, including: coordinating product launches; getting feedback for new products (accomplishing in a couple of days what would normally take weeks of research); improving overall quality and customer experience; sharing actionable competitive intelligence and several others.
• In just over two years, the company's Jive-powered employee community has reached 15,000 registered users worldwide with 27,000 unique visitors and up to 4.6 million page views per month.
• Community members have created 160 active communities and 110 active groups.
• EMC reports its employees now spend less time searching for information or duplicating each other's efforts, and they're creating and sharing business content at a tremendous rate.

Event Highlights

The Gilbane conference is organized into four tracks to address the different needs and perspectives of marketing, IT, business units, and specialized internal functions. Conference information can be found at http://gilbanesf.com.

About Jive Software

Jive is the largest and fastest growing Social Business Software (SBS) company in the world. SBS creates a material competitive advantage by combining the power of social networking, collaboration software, and community software. For more information, visit www.jivesoftware.com.

SOURCE Jive Software

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