 | The simple creation and distribution of content like Blog-Postings, Status Updates, discussion in spaces, social groups and projects is the greatest strength of Jive. Commenting and rating is easy and well integrated throughout the whole platform. Extensive forum functionality is available in all workspaces (spaces, groups, projects), threads are easily manageable and posts can be explicitly marked as questions. Besides the central activity stream exists the custom activity streams, which is faster and more precise by structuring the content. The new function Jive Anywhere supports the user by sharing content of any website and initiation of a discussion or recognizing if there is already content on the platform that belongs to a website. The app-mentions function integrates the content of apps and enriches the created content with information and important links. With these the utilization ratio and the quality of content get raised. The availability of content on mobile user devices creates the possibility of access, which is still established in the internet. |
 | Jive completely fulfills the requirements of open and closed workspaces. They are well structured, have a customizable home page and admin control over access levels is, despite a high granularity, uncomplicated. The new features External Access and External Groups, where groups and projects can add participants, that don´t belong to the company helps to improve the external communication and collaboration with partners. Generating content (in blogs, on wiki-pages, in documents and discussions) and the collaboration with other participants had never been so easy then in Jive. But structuring of content with categories is not implemented well, like in other applications. The integration with Outlook and Office allows the smooth connection of the daily working processes of a knowledge worker with the central collaboration platform. The integrated preview function allows a view of the documents without opening third party programs like MS Word, PowerPoint or Acrobat Reader. Through the enormous demand of an integration with SharePoint, Jive implemented an own SharePoint-Connector, which is more intuitive and better integrated. |
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Besides corporate conversation, the real strength of Jive is Networking and Expert Search. The profiles are well structured and contain a great deal of information including biographical background, expertise, groups and a reference to the personal blog. A tag cloud with the user’s most frequently used tags provides a quick overview about work focus and interests. Unlike competing products, Jive allows for a convenient one-way following mechanism, which is known from twitter. Each employee can be displayed in an organizational chart and suggests similar people when visiting a profile. Any keyword search will suggest matching experts and the advanced people search enables users to search people by tags, titles, department and more. Nevertheless we see potential in a more intelligent expert search. Well-engineered profile and data privacy gave the user the chance to decide, which information in the personal profile appear and should visible for other users. |

| The most important improvement in this sector is the custom activity stream. It is an adjusted activity stream site, which the user can customize by the user. This provides an optimal introduction to the personal information management. The requirement of a good search function is met by the live search and various options of filtering search results. In fact Jive emphasizes the personal aspect of information management allowing people to privately bookmark interesting content on the platform or the web and view a history of their activities. |

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Project management on a basic level is well supported in Jives Social Business Software. It is possible to set up a project workspace which includes a project blog, a project forum and a list of shared documents. Though it is possible to aggregate a bunch of widgets, including a project calendar, a progress bar and a summary of the project tasks on the customizable project dashboard, the functionality behind that cannot satisfy high demands. Jive improved features of PM with the possibility to integrate more PM-Applications with apps. For example: there is a JIRA-integration for the issues tracking. Furthermore external groups for participants, which are not in the company, can be created and invited to the project work. |
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Considering Project Management: “tasks can only be defined on the same level”. This is not true, you can define subtasks.
Hi Ronald, you’re right – I used this feature yesterday! Thanks for contributing!
Hello! Do you know if they make any plugins
to protect against hackers? I’m kinda paranoid about losing everything I’ve worked hard on.
Any suggestions?