Ovum Ranks Jive as a Leader in Latest Employee Engagement, Collaboration and Productivity Report

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 17, 2016

"We positioned Jive as a leader in this year's report because it offers a well-established solution that advances the company's vision of enabling people to work better together in connected, collaborative, secure online communities," said the report's author Richard Edwards, principal research analyst of enterprise productivity and mobility at Ovum. "A Jive Interactive Intranet enables employees to overcome the barriers of time, place and workstyle preference through a rich user experience that is pervasive, intelligent and connected to the organization's work graph."

The report stated, "Jive provides enterprises with a unified user experience that can extend beyond a single organization or entity, making it invaluable to those organizations comprised of multiple different business units, ventures or brands. An employee-centric software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, the product lets business users decide which tools and apps to use to get work done. Jive's Interactive Intranet provides a collaboration hub built around profiles, blogs, groups, discussions, document collaboration, analytics, personalization and smart search, delivered through purpose-built user experiences for desktop and mobile."

"Jive's mission is to help unify and align organizations by solving their complex fragmentation problems and offer a better way for people to quickly find knowledge and experts, gain organizational insights and solve complex business problems using work graph analysis," said David Puglia, chief marketing officer for Jive. "It is gratifying to see well-respected analyst firms like Ovum cut through the clutter of recent hype around siloed conversational apps and recognize the proven value of Jive's collaboration hub, which supports digital workplace transformations and makes work searchable, visible and memorable."

The Ovum Decision Matrix and SWOT Assessments are independent reviews carried out using Ovum's evaluation model for the relevant technology area, supported by conversations with vendors, users, and service providers of the solution concerned, and in-depth secondary research. To access the Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting an Enterprise Social Networking Product, visit www.jivesoftware.com.

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