• April 23rd, 2013

    Jive Software’s New Take On Corporate Blogging And A Handy Web Anywhere Tool

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    Last week,  Jive Software‘s Oudi Antebi came by the house to show off the company’s new platform. I don’t usually have people stop by for briefings but he was insistent, so I agreed. I had to meet this guy willing to come out to my house even if I was taking double shots of Nyquil. Oudi joined Jive when the company bought his startup, OffiSync, in 2011. In his words, all was… → Read More

    March 27th, 2013

    Atlassian Extends Confluence Collaboration Platform, Now Competing More With Jive Software And Other Social Providers

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    Atlassian is getting more competitive with social collaboration companies like Jive Software with a new offering thst extends its social collaboration service beyond its core users. → Read More

    November 5th, 2012

    Jive Software Acquires Meetings.io and Producteev To Enhance Social Platform With Real-Time Messaging And Task Management

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    Jive Software is acquiring meetings.io, a real-time communications platform and Producteev, a cloud-based task management provider in a combined deal worth $7.6 million and 460,000 in Jive stock. → Read More

    October 12th, 2012

    Jive Software Drops Below Post-IPO Low As Enterprise Takes A Second Look At Private Social Networks

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    Jive Software is hovering below its post-IPO low, after an investment bank lowered its rating on the company, citing research that shows enterprise companies are taking a cautious view of private social networks that we see from Salesforce.com, Yammer and a host of other competitors. → Read More

    October 8th, 2012

    What’s To Come As Jive’s Tony Zingale Appears On Stage at Boxworks With Box CEO Aaron Levie?

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    Jive CEO Tony Zingale zinged Zynga, Yammer, Oracle and you name who else in an interview with Box CEO Aaron Levie at Boxworks. But the real story comes with Zingale appearing as a mystery guest for the company’s annual event — fueling speculation that the two young enterprise challengers may have some news to share as the week goes on. → Read More

    May 17th, 2011

    Jive Launches Facebook Connector To Integrate Social Content Into Customer Communities

    Jive Software, the maker of an all-in-one social enterprise software, has launched a deeper integration with Facebook today with the release of the Jive Facebook Connector. The connector allows companies to integrate Facebook communities, fan pages and content into the Jive external customer support communities.

    Modeled to offer Facebook-like features to enterprises, Jive’s software combines… → Read More

    April 13th, 2011

    Jive Bets On Big Data With Acquisition Of Software Startup Proximal Labs

    Jive Software, the maker of an all-in-one social enterprise software, has acquired data mining software company Proximal Labs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

    Proximal Labs is a software company that analyzes and mines data within a community to power applications that plug into social media networks. These “smart apps” learn about users based on what they do in the community, who they… → Read More

    July 20th, 2010

    Readying For An IPO, Jive Software Raises $30 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Sequoia

    Jive Software, the maker of an all-in-one social enterprise software, has just raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers with existing investor Sequoia Capital participating in the round. This brings Jive’s total funding to a whopping $57 million. Jive’s CEO Tony Zingale declined to reveal the valuation of the company but said that he was “very pleased” with… → Read More

    February 22nd, 2010

    Changing Of The Guard: Jive Software Brings On New CEO

    There’s a changing of the guard taking place at social software company Jive. Co-founder and CEO Dave Hersh will be stepping down from the role to allow board member Tony Zingale to take over as interim CEO. Hersh will continue at Jive as chairman of the company’s board of directors.

    Zingale was most recently the president and CEO of enterprise company Mercury Interactive, which was acquired by… → Read More

    January 7th, 2010

    Jive Software Acquires Social Media Monitoring Startup Filtrbox

    Businesses and brands have already caught onto the immense power of the social stream that runs through Twitter and Facebook to track the pulse of conversations around consumers. Both tech giants and startups are competing to provide enterprise-friendly, social platforms to businesses that combine both collaboration and social media monitoring. Socialtext and CubeTree offer compelling social… → Read More

    October 19th, 2009

    Jive Raises $12 Million For Social Enterprise Software

    Jive, the maker of a all-in-one social enterprise software, has raised $12 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital. Jive previously raised $15 million in Series A funding from Sequoia in August of 2007.

    Modeled to offer Facebook-like features to enterprises, Jive combines computing with social collaboration. Its suite of applications help businesses collaborate on a variety of tasks… → Read More

    October 5th, 2009

    Social Enterprise Software Jive Launches Integration With Microsoft SharePoint

    Jive, the maker of a all-in-one social enterprise software, is launching integration with Microsoft SharePoint, letting Jive users easily access data and content from the CMS into Jive’s software. Modeled to offer Facebook-like features to enterprises, Jive combines computing with social collaboration. Its suite of applications help businesses collaborate on a variety of tasks, including holding… → Read More

    March 9th, 2009

    Jive Launches All-In-One Social Enterprise Software

    Jive Software has launched a comprehensive Social Business Software application suite, Jive SBS 3.0, which includes the company’s previous social computing applications, Clearspace and Clearspace Community. The Clearspace applications, whose names will cease to exist but functionalities will remain the same, will be integrated into one social enterprise platform. Modeled to offer… → Read More

    October 14th, 2008

    Jive Software Lays Off 1/3 Of Staff

    When it comes to layoffs, 1/3 of total staff seems to be a magic number. Portland based Jive Software, which is backed by Sequoia, laid off around 40 people today, a third of their total staff. This follows massive employee growth over the last year. Twelve months ago the company had around 60 employees.

    Two Vice Presidents are among those that left – Marty Kagan, VP Engineering and Scott→ Read More

    April 6th, 2008

    Jive Software Releases Clearspace 2.0, Acquires Jotlet

    Jive Software has released version 2.0 of Clearspace, its collaboration suite for businesses. The company is also announcing that it has acquired Jotlet, makers of online calendar software. Jive provides two products with the Clearspace name, both of which run on the same platform. The one getting upgraded is simply known as “Clearspace” and is used by businesses for internal… → Read More