Why is Jive Social Business Software so good?

Posted by Sean Lew on Friday, 29 May, 2009 under Collaboration, Innovation, social media, software |

I always knew that Jive software was good. I’ve implemented it (v2.5) and used it before and love it. However, whenever someone asks me why I like it so much, all I could say was “Its so easy and it makes sense”. I have decided to jump into Jive Social Business Software and have a deep understanding why I love it and reviewed Jive Social Business Software extensively.

First of all, I must say I look at Jive from an Enterprise perspective and what I would want if I ran a company.

1) Spaces are fantastic

2) Permissions on Spaces is even better

3) Permissions on individual documents within a space – Wow!

4) Leader in Forrester Wave: Community Platform 2009, Gartner Magic Quadrant, 2008

5) Excellent plugin and API interface

6) Strong community reporting tool

7) Has a document publishing approval process

8 ) User fully customisable front page, excellent widgets (you can create your own widget too – good for the geeks)

9) Excellent notification via customisable RSS, emails and “watching a page/tag” functionality

10) History of where you have been

11) Interesting functionalities on documents like (“more like this page” and “More by Sean” )

12) Video and interactive communication capability

13) Simple project management (I would probably wish that this functionality was stronger so that I could save on buying MS project if possible)

I personally feel that Jive is like facebook and anything else is like MySpace? Or should I say Jive is like a MAC and the rest are like PCs? You get what I mean. You just get it.

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