Aurea had assured Jive customers they were committed to the "Jive-n" internal community product, but many licensees were skeptical. In the end, Aurea jettisoned Jive-x instead. So what gives?
Just last week we updated our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software research and advised customers - "Jive is at a crossroads; as an enterprise buyer, understand that there are more likely changes afoot for the vendor itself."
The popularity of Slack, particularly on the user engagement front (it may not really be ready for large enterprise use) — a group chat tool developed with a mobile-first design ethos — underscores that mobile collaboration in the digital workplace remains an unmet need. Traditional collaboration vendors have lagged here but are scrambling to catch-up.
Both the tech press and the mainstream publications gush over this tool as if it were the next best thing since sliced bread, but Slack is unproven for enterprise use.
As a potential customer, understand that Google is signaling serious intent but that they are still in the early stages of that journey. Even for the mighty Google ambition does not automatically guarantee success
Updated reviews of Google, Igloo, Jive, Liferay Social Office, Verint/Telligent, and Traction — with new entrants to the report: eXo and Interact. Here's a sneak peek of some of the findings
HubSpot recently witnessed a bizarre drama: the Chief Marketing Officer was terminated, its VP of Content resigned, and the co-founder CEO was sanctioned by the board for violating the company’s code of conduct
A performance plateau calls into question this major collaboration and social software player's path-to-profitability and therefore its future viability as an independent company
Recently, Jive software announced the release of Jive Gamification, an add-on to its enterprise social networking platform. Jive is OEMing the module from a vendor called Bunchball that specializes in gamification software. Jive's version and is an extension of "Nitro," Bunchball's software platform for such things