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Vendor: Jive
4.1 out of 5
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What is Jive?

The workplace has changed. It has become more mobile, and has become a place where communication and collaboration across all spheres of the business is key to success. This is where Jive comes in with its cutting-edge mobile portal, its enterprise social network, and its integrative platform that is compatible with current infrastructure and modern cloud applications.

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Jive is the #7 ranked solution in top Corporate Portals, #10 ranked solution in top Enterprise Intranet solutions, #13 ranked solution in top Enterprise Social Software, #20 ranked solution in top Knowledge Management Software, #35 ranked solution in top Enterprise Content Management solutions, and #42 ranked solution in top Web Content Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Jive an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Jive is most commonly compared to SharePoint: Jive vs SharePoint.
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Jive mindshare

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As of June 2025, the mindshare of Jive in the Enterprise Content Management category stands at 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

Jive offers features like blogging, sharing, search, and mobile use. Users benefit from full integration with MS Office and Outlook. It provides customizable communication types and exceptional collaboration tools for effective document creation. Permissions are handled flexibly for various spaces. Organizations value two-way communication between executives and employees. Geographically dispersed teams build trust through photo features and discover useful insights, enhancing productivity. Users also appreciate the easy integration of new affiliates and gamification for user engagement.
  • "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."

Room for Improvement

Jive users suggest improvements in navigation and stream organization. New users face challenges due to excessive email notifications and multiple communication streams. UI design could offer easier bulk user addition and third-party integration, especially for platforms like Facebook or LinkedIn. Visual integration through widgets is also recommended. Enhancements in mobile app functionality and search engine indexing are needed. Reducing the number of features may help users overwhelmed by too many choices.
  • "The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."

Service and Support

Jive customer service is consistently available, with support managed through an active online community where both Jive Software and members respond. Large enterprises receive custom support. Technical support in Europe is based in London, with responses considered excellent. Many find the standard support moderate, handling issues internally or upgrading to faster packages like Gold. The infrastructure uses open source components like Lucene, with a sizable technical staff ensuring thorough responses.

Deployment

The initial setup of Jive is largely straightforward and easy, with some users highlighting the need for expertise in Jive's architecture for complex configurations. Documentation and user knowledge contribute positively, though training is necessary to grasp its rich functionality. Menu simplification is suggested as a workaround. Support from Jive is commended.

Scalability

Jive demonstrates reliable performance, showing no trouble in handling increased volume. Feedback indicates consistent speed over time, with effective management of usage through server monitoring and admin portal. While most report no difficulties, some experiences include decreased performance with larger user bases. However, scalability is typically maintained without major instability, making Jive adaptable to varying demands.

Stability

Users largely report a stable experience with Jive. Most did not face stability problems, although one instance of a node encountering issues was mentioned. Improvements in redundancy have ensured better outcomes, with stability after initial setup. Updates on new on-premise versions may affect stability, and testing in a separate environment is advisable. For others, no disruptions were noted, indicating a consistent performance.
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Learn more about Jive

As a portal, Jive brings colleagues, content, and current news straight to your desktop or mobile device at the touch of your fingertips. The enterprise social software aspect of Jive connects business colleagues as never-before across geographical locations and throughout the organizational structure. The Jive platform is completely flexible and integrative, and will seamlessly integrate with current systems such as SharePoint and CRM tools, as well as cloud apps like Google Drive and Okta

Jive was previously known as Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n.

Jive customers

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

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VP - International Business at Amtex S.A.
Verified user of Jive
Feb 25, 2020
A flexible solution that improves our administrative efficiency

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."

Cons

"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."

What is our primary use case?

We use Jive-n for followups on details regarding purchase orders, shipping documents, and other information.

How has it helped my organization?

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.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Internal Collaboration Lead at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Jive
May 7, 2017
The most valuable feature is two-way communication between executives and employees.

What is most valuable?

Two-way communication between executives and employees.

How has it helped my organization?

We recently rebranded our organization and used this tool as our primary channel. The solution allows us to check whether our corporate strategy is landing very quickly. If forces us to change things that aren’t working.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Managing partner at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of Jive
Apr 24, 2017
Product version discussed: Jive-n 8,9, cloud
The solution offers multiple communication types. It provides a way to integrate new affiliates into your organization.

What is most valuable?

  • In comparison to other platforms, Jive-n provides the fastest way to integrate new affiliates into your organization. You can build a new "place" for a new affiliate in just two hours.
  • Gamification is included into any cloud version: This module is very fancy and good, and you can use it for initial user adoption.
  • The solution offers around 15 communication types (status, discussion, blog, document, file, event, etc.). You can choose to deploy only those that you need in your organization.

How has it helped my organization?

We implement Jive-n for customers. The main value is silo breaking.

*Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We are Jive resellers.
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PeerSpot user
Founder/CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of Jive
Mar 30, 2017
Offers a curated experience of social based content for enterprises.

I have used Jive-n, both as a customer and as a consultant in other companies. I have used the Jive-n instances for over the last eight years, across their on-premise, hosted, and cloud offerings.

Jive-n offers the best curated experience of the social-based content for enterprises. Companies that leverage Jive-n as their internal intranet, portal or community will improve their communication, their culture, and rely less heavily on emails as the system of participation.

While there is always room for improvement, Jive Cloud does an excellent job at improving the features, UX, and extensibility. Jive-n can improve their integration, plugins and democratize their configuration abilities. They are actively taking steps in that direction. While Jive-n offers three levels of hosting, i.e., on-premise, hosted, and cloud, their cloud version is very dynamic for the needs of the enterprise.

Their technical support is excellent and well informed in terms of the product.

When I initially selected Jive-n for my organization eight years ago, there were others in the process. Lithium Technologies was the other front runner. I selected Jive-n because it was more focused on the curated experience and that continues to be the case today.

As an on-premise installation, it was straightforward. However, it does require some serious resources in order for it to run effectively.

I would suggest to the interested companies to only view Jive Cloud as the solution. This focus on the cloud as the hosting solution will enable the enterprise to focus more on activating the social aspects for their employees.

I would also suggest that they negotiate multi-year agreements in order to get the best pricing policy.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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PeerSpot user
Senior Associate Social CRM at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Jive
Sep 29, 2016
Product version discussed: 4.5.7, 7.0 and 8.0.3
The way permissions are handled for different spaces/areas is valuable. Integration of third-party tools should be easier.

What is most valuable?

I would say the most valuable feature is the way permissions are handled for different spaces/areas.

How has it helped my organization?

Various business groups were able to collaborate effectively using this tool.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at SnapLogic
Verified user of Jive
Jul 5, 2016
Works well to collaborate with creating documents or media for a specific goal.

What is most valuable?

The platform works well to collaborate with creating documents or media for a specific goal.

How has it helped my organization?

It was more fun to create a community in Jive than to use shared spreadsheets in Dropbox or Google docs.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Managing Director Business Change and Quality Assurance at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Verified user of Jive
Jun 20, 2016
Used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments.

What is most valuable?

Discovery, meaning that the more it's used, the more you find someone else has solved an issue you have, or has the same interest. This helps to reduce lifecycle times. The second feature is the pictures. For a geographically dispersed organization, knowing what a person looks like increases trust immediately.

How has it helped my organization?

It's used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments. It's easy to onboard new associates to a group or a technology program, and it helps facilitate communication outwards to communities of interests.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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PeerSpot user
Webmaster with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Jive
Jul 31, 2014
From intra-mess to social collaboration

What is most valuable?

Blogging, sharing, search, mobile use Full integration of MS Office and Outlook

How has it helped my organization?

Colleagues are more informed, easier to find content, silo breaking

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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