JiveWorld10 to be Held in San Francisco
Conference close to sold out
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software, the social business software leader, announced that JiveWorld10, the social business event of the year, will be held on September 14-16, 2010 at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco, California. JiveWorld10 will be more than twice the size of last year's sold-out conference, and is on track to sell out.
Jive CEO, Tony Zingale will keynote and unveil company news highlighting how to enable the social enterprise. JiveWorld10 additionally includes 40 content-rich sessions featuring customer speakers from Alcatel-Lucent, Charles Schwab, CSC, EMC, Intel, Mattel, McAfee, MIT, Premier Farnell and SAP. These customers will share their experiences in adopting and implementing a successful social business strategy that has changed the way they engage with customers, employees and the social web.
"The demand for JiveWorld10 has exceeded our exceptions," said David Greenberg Senior Director of Marketing at Jive. "Industry luminaries, customers, business executives and leading enterprise vendors attend our event for the opportunity to share social business thought leadership and network with peers."
Other main stage sessions will feature the following speakers:
- Dr. Andrew McAfee, MIT Sloan School of Management who coined Enterprise 2.0;
- Chris Fletcher, Research Director of Gartner;
- Michael Copeland, Senior Writer of FORTUNE;
- Martin Cooper, inventor of the handheld mobile phone;
- Tony Uphoff, CEO of UBM TechWeb.
"Jive does conferences right," said Claire Flanagan, Director of Enterprise Social Business Collaboration and Communities Strategy at CSC. "Jive balances their own content such as product roadmaps and keynote sessions with real customer stories. No matter where one is in Jive Social Business Software deployment lifecycle, they will find 'a track for that' and a customer to learn from."
Jive 5 and Jive Social Business Software (SBS)
JiveWorld10 attendees will receive an early preview of Jive 5, as well as a closer look at the Jive SBS ecosystem. The Jive SBS ecosystem consists of a number of key partners, including 7Summits, CSC, Infosys, Savvis and SolutionSet. At the JiveWorld10 Partner Pavilion, attendees can explore offerings and engage with experts to help accelerate their social business software implementation.
Jive Apps Market
During JiveWorld10, Jive will also host its first developer event. This event will be led by Jive's top engineers and will consist of in-depth sessions showcasing best practices for building Jive Apps for Jive Apps Market. Attendees will receive a comprehensive overview of all major aspects of the Jive Apps Market framework.
Industry Recognition
Jive has been positioned as a Leader in three Gartner Magic Quadrants, including the "Magic Quadrant for Externally Focused Social Software, 2010," (1) the "Magic Quadrant for Social CRM, 2010" (2) and the "Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, 2009" (3).
To register for JiveWorld10, please visit http://www.jivesoftware.com/jiveworld.
(1) Gartner. Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Externally Facing Social Software" by Jeffrey Mann et al., Jul. 5, 2010
(2) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Social CRM" by Adam Sarner et al., Jun. 29, 2010
(3) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace" by Nikos Drakos et al., Oct. 22, 2009
About Jive – The New Way to Business
Jive is the largest and fastest-growing independent Social Business Software company in the world. For more information, visit www.jivesoftware.com.
About Social Business Software (SBS)
Social Business is the new way to engage employees, customers and the social web. Jive SBS combines the power of community software, collaboration software, social networking software, and social media monitoring offerings into an integrated social platform. Just as social technologies have changed our personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises create competitive advantage. SBS is emerging as the most important new enterprise software category in a decade. The SBS market is projected to grow in excess of 25 percent per year and will reach nearly $5 billion by 2013.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2009, 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
SOURCE Jive Software
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