PresseKat - DGAP-News: Jive Reinvents Social Business Applications With Jive !App Experiences

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02.05.2012 14:00
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Leading !Apps From Jive Apps Partners Available Now in Jive Cloud and With Try
Jive

PALO ALTO, Calif., 2012-05-02 14:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Jive Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:JIVE), the industry's largest pure-play social
business provider, today introduced Jive !App Experiences, a breakthrough
capability that seamlessly integrates applications into the social business
workflow. The new capability is part of Jive's next-generation social business
platform, also introduced today. Jive !App Experiences are available
immediately via Jive Cloud, Jive's public cloud service, and in Try Jive,
Jive's new 30-day free trial. Try Jive enables teams of any size to work
together using Jive for Teams, a new easy-to-use group collaboration solution
built on Jive's latest platform.

Last year, Jive pioneered the use of applications in social business with the
Jive Apps Market, providing an array of purpose-built apps that users could
easily install to extend the functionality of the Jive system. Jive !App
Experiences take this capability a big step further, enabling users to invoke
powerful applications and merge them fluidly into documents, discussions, and
other activities.

'This is really a new paradigm--not just for social business, but for business
applications in general,' said Tony Zingale, Jive CEO. 'We're turning the old
model of portlets, Web Parts, and dashboards on its head--moving from a world
where users have to jump from one application to another, to a single
integrated experience where everything you need is at your fingertips. Jive
!App Experiences give users the power to enhance and customize their work
environment in ways that were never possible before. This is one of the ways
our new platform makes social business a more holistic, pervasive experience,

and we expect it to change the way applications are used across the industry.'

Leading !Apps Available Now

Many Jive Apps partners are supporting the initiative with applications
designed to take advantage of the new capabilities. The new !Apps are available
now in the Jive !Apps Market on Jive Cloud. They include:

-- Appirio's Social Selling !App brings account and opportunity information
from Salesforce.com directly into Jive discussions so all employees, not
just sales reps, can collaborate on increasing win rates and reducing sales
cycles.
-- Box's Box for Jive !App brings Box folders and files directly into Jive
discussions so customers can see and collaborate on Box documents while
creating and viewing content in Jive.
-- Goshido's task and project management !App allows employees to create and
insert actions from Goshido right inside Jive documents and discussions so
they can seamlessly manage their personal daily to-do lists and participate
in complex projects that span functional and company boundaries.
-- HEDLOC's CRM !App lets users brings lead, opportunity, and account
information from SugarCRM directly into Jive discussions so sales reps can
easily collaborate on important deals to drive higher win rates and
revenue.
-- INXPO's virtual events !App allows employees to seamlessly launch rich
virtual event experiences including video and chat to participate in their
CEO's latest company update,view a product launch, or engage in sales
training, to cite a few examples.
-- LucidChart's diagramming !App allows users to create and insert diagrams
into Jive content, making it easy for teams to document business processes
and communicate visually.
-- Wrike's social project management !App allows workers to organize tasks,
schedule their projects and easily track progress. Now, it also gives
employees the ability to embed Wrike tasks in Jive discussions and content,
so those tasks can be read and updated from anywhere within Jive.

'Our enterprise customers want to collaborate on their Box content wherever
they may be. With the Box for Jive !App, businesses can now seamlessly share
and collaborate on Box content right from within the Jive platform. We're
excited to partner with Jive to deliver greater efficiencies and functionality
for the cloud-connected enterprise.' -- Karen Appleton, VP of Business
Development at Box

'Customers tell us they want deeper integration between Jive and Goshido. The
new !Apps capability hits the mark. Now, employees don't have to switch
context between Jive and Goshido. As they create content in Jive they can use
Goshido without leaving the page. ' -- Tom Brennan, CEO at Goshido

'The first time we saw the !Apps demo we knew that Jive was changing the game.
It's not just an integration--it's a user-driven integration. With HEDLOC's CRM
!App, employees can now thoughtfully bring accounts and opportunities from
SugarCRM into Jive so they can collaborate where and when it makes sense to
them.' -- Bruno Pisano, CEO at HEDLOC

'INXPO is a very feature-rich platform with video and real-time capabilities
for virtual events. With the !App capability of launching an embedded
experience of an INXPO event from anywhere, Jive is becoming a true platform
for the enterprise. We know our customers are going to love this new
functionality.' -- Drew VanVooren, President at INXPO

!Apps Without Borders

With Jive !App Experiences, users can transparently merge !App functionality
into whatever they're working on. Users simply type a '!' character and choose
the desired !App function from a pop-up menu. Jive calls this unprecedented
capability '!App mentioning' (like (at)mentioning). For example, a user
collaborating on a business plan can insert the latest pipeline report using a
CRM !App, or embed a chart using a diagramming !App, or assign a task to
another user with a project management !App -- all without ever leaving the
document.

A second capability, called App Actions, lets users share content, discussions,
and other activities with any third-party app with a single click. For example,
a user could click to submit a document to a translation app or log a
discussion about a product bug into an issue tracking tool.

Big Benefits for Developers and IT Teams

The Jive !Apps Market has major benefits for all stakeholders. Customer IT
organizations get a simple way to build new applications, repurpose existing
ones, and distribute third-party apps to end users. IT can pre-approve
applications and make them available to users via the !Apps Market. Users can
select the functions they need and immediately access them with a click. This
self-provisioning process simplifies the job of IT and makes users happier.
Application developers can leverage Jive's social features without having to
build them from scratch themselves, and gain access to a large market of Jive
customer companies and end users via a simple, low-cost distribution channel
(the Jive !Apps Market and Jive Cloud).

Built on OpenSocial Standards

!App Experiences are based on the latest OpenSocial standards, providing
scalable plug-and-play interoperability, as opposed to the proprietary
development platforms used by some vendors.

'This is an excellent example of how community-driven innovation from the
OpenSocial standard can be leveraged in an innovative and customer-friendly
way,' said Mark Weitzel, President of the OpenSocial Foundation and Developer
Evangelist at Jive. 'With Jive's introduction of!App Experiences, we've now
raised the bar for rich application experiences that help users get their work
done.'

For more information, visit Jive Software.

To showcase the latest trends and best practices in social business, Jive
presents the JiveLive Tour, an eight-city seminar series in May and early June,
2012. To learn more, visit the JiveLive Tour site.

About Jive Software

Jive Software (Nasdaq:JIVE) is a leading global Social Business company. We
bring social technology innovations from the consumer world into enterprises
securely and at scale, changing the way work gets done. Our platform combines
the power of big data, enterprise integrations and social collaboration
technologies. Millions of people at the world's largest companies are using
Jive-powered communities internally and externally to transform their
businesses. For a free trial of Jive's next-generation social business
platform, please visit Try Jive.

CONTACT: Ana Andreescu
ph: (650) 319-1975
ana.andreescu(at)jivesoftware.com
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