The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Improves External Interaction and Collaboration With Jive

PORTLAND, Oregon, November 16 - News

    - Jive, the Social Business Software leader, announced that The
      Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) is
      piloting use of Jive to extend outreach and deepen engagement with
      external partners in government agencies, international organisations,
      civil society and other institutions with help from Jive Social Business
      Software.
    - OECD, one of the world's largest and most reliable sources of economic
      and social analysis and data, provides a forum in which governments
      compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify
      good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies.
    - OECD relies heavily on consultation and collaboration with external
      partners, and has a number of systems to support information/data
      sharing and discussion forums. Much interaction however still takes
      place via email.
    - Recognizing the need to update its external collaboration portfolio,
      OECD performed a review of the latest in collaboration technologies and
      chose Jive Social Business Software. Using Jive, OECD implemented an
      external community to support both informal information sharing and
      collaboration with its partner groups as well as more formal
      discussions.

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    - "Many of our internal staff and external partners were demanding an easy
      to use, effective tool to aid in the consultation and collaborative
      process," said Chris Daniel, Analyst at OECD. "Some users had already
      begun experimenting with free software available on the web."
    - "We wanted to provide a space where partners and staff can easily engage
      with one another," mentioned Chris. "Jive allows us to provide both
      secure private spaces as well as more open spaces where participants can
      find, discover and interact with one another, and share their findings,
      research and analysis."
    - "In both the private and public arenas, we are seeing a growing demand
      for effective collaboration with third parties for research, contract
      work or established partnerships," said Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive Software.
      "Jive SBS uniquely supports these activities by providing an intuitive
      interface that minimizes the need for formal training and promotes open
      conversations and rapid adoption."

About OECD

The OECD (www.oecd.org) brings together the governments of countries
committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world to:

    - Support sustainable economic growth
    - Boost employment
    - Raise living standards
    - Maintain financial stability
    - Assist other countries' economic development
    - Contribute to growth in world trade

The Organisation provides a setting where governments compare policy
experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and
coordinate domestic and international policies.

About Jive Software

Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and
workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or
meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for
Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking
software (www.jivesoftware.com/products/employee-community),
collaboration software (www.jivesoftware.com/), and community software
(www.jivesoftware.com/products) into the first solution to effectively
manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for
tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.

Aaron Wessels of Reidy Communications, +1-415-643-8090, aaronw at reidycommunications.com, for Jive Software