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Jive vs Kentico comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Jive
Ranking in Web Content Management
40th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (34th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (7th), Enterprise Social Software (13th), Knowledge Management Software (11th), Enterprise Intranet (6th)
Kentico
Ranking in Web Content Management
17th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Jive is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kentico is 1.4%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user446067 - PeerSpot reviewer
Used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments.
Stream activity could be better organized. Activities or content you are following will either be emailed to you or you follow in a stream. This is the largest issue to overcome for new people using the solution. When using email they receive way too many and it becomes noise. If they use streams, it's yet another thing to check along with email, IM, etc.
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The advanced marketing suite has helped us to establish our US business
Our primary use case is to deliver enterprise level web solutions It has helped us establish our business in the USA and allows us to work with a range of corporate clients. The most valuable features are its integration capabilities and advanced marketing suite. This product needs an out of…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
"I would say they have a modern, flexible, agile content management system."
"The most valuable features are its integration capabilities and advanced marketing suite."
 

Cons

"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"This product needs an out of the box Intranet/Extranet Solution."
"They don't have a lot of libraries, which is something that they can improve on."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The licensing fees are probably about $100,000 USD per year."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
16%
Real Estate/Law Firm
12%
University
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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Does Kentico provide good options for marketing?
Absolutely! I can't stress enough how important marketing is for the digital experience you're giving to customers. If you want to reach your clients through multiple channels, each type of content...
What is the content management system of Kentico like?
In my experience, Kentico has been a very flexible and easy-to-use content management system. Keep in mind that we haven't been using it for a while because our management decided to change DXPs fo...
What do you use Kentico for?
Hello, I think Kentico will serve you well as a digital experience platform and especially for commerce purposes. We at my company have been using this feature of the DXP as well because we recentl...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
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Sample Customers

Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
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