What’s new in Jive5?

Jive5 is getting baked and will be GA in a month or so.  Historically, I have seen Jive driven by the agency segment as they have had past big wins in the social media management domain.  In Jive5 they have grabbed my attention – this release is a game-changer in enterprise social business software.  What is Jive?  Jive is a leader in social business software and was named such by Gartner in 2010 for Externally Facing Social Business Software.

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Jive5 brings to the table some serious tools that companies looking to build or enable an innovative and social businesses.  First off they have updated their UI to a stellar out of box experience.    Add to that some great tools to add gas to an already fast burning fire called collaboration and innovation.  Tools like:

• twitter-like activity stream which is 100% filterable and editable.
• a social equity component to relates information and networks to you
• idea generation and management
• MS Office Connector
• any-device mobile support (iPhone, Android, iPad, mobile web, etc)
• Robust App developer and marketplace (vetted by Jive) – like Tungle.me and Gliffy
• IM platform integration
• Messaging within the platform
• Much more
• Social Engagement plugin

Jive provides a nice set of APIs to integrating it into other applications or websites are easy.  The concept of extending the platform with apps is the shining star from a feature set like the Office Connector which allows users to simultaneously work on a document/spreadsheet/whatever together while assigning roles to sections and so on.  Each MS Office save pushes a version back to Jive Files.  The integration of IM clients like Sametime is a nice add.  I like that you can message someone similar to what you do in Facebook and the ability to @mention someone/doc/community/forum/whatever is slick and again intuitive from what we might be using everyday.

To close if I had a Jonathan Magic Quadrant, I would put Jive in the leader category based on its maturity and full feature set that surpasses what others in the category are missing.  If you are looking for a Jive 5 demo or more information you can email me or contact Jive directly.  If it wasn’t on your list, it should be now.