Jive Unveils 'The Jive Social Network'
By Jive Software, PRNEWednesday, June 8, 2011
PALO ALTO, California, June 9, 2011 -
- Introduces The New Way to Partner
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 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
www.jivesoftware.com.
Ana Andreescu of Jive Software, +1-650-319-1975, ana.andreescu at jivesoftware.com; or Lacey Haines of Bite Communications for Jive Software, +1-415-365-0482, lacey.haines at bitecommunications.com
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