Beebole vs. Jive

Jive

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Beebole	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Beebole is a project management and time tracking platform for planning human resources, measuring labor costs, and managing multi-stage approval workflows. The system integrates timesheet data with financial management to monitor project profitability and resource allocation in real time. Key Capabilities Resource Planning & Time Tracking: Connects planning views directly to employee timesheets. Managers assign work entries that pre-populate into…	$0 per month per user
Jive	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Jive Software, part of the Aurea family of customer experience solutions, provides the gateway to an organization's most important assets – its knowledge and people. Jive's interactive intranet solution promises to connect people, information and ideas to help businesses outpace their competitors. The vendor says the product has more than 30 million users worldwide across every industry, and is consistently recognized as a leader by top analyst firms.	N/A

Pricing

Beebole

Jive

Editions & Modules

Free: $0
per month per user
Essential: $10
per month per user
Advanced: $20
per month per user

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Beebole	Jive
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Beebole offers a 10% discount for annual subscriptions, 10% for NGOs and educational institutions, and volume discounts. Subscriptions can be canceled or modified at any time within the dashboard. The 30-day free trial includes access to all of the tool's features with no commitments. Unlimited live support and configuration calls are available to get started and are provided at no extra cost.

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Community Pulse
	Beebole	Jive
Considered Both Products	Beebole Philip Neumann Designer Chose Beebole In my experience, Beebole is far superior to ease of set up and use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beebole More detailed / layered options for complex organizations and teams, but Beebole's user interface is not as modern and much more cumbersome / higher learning curve Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beebole Functionality both system are +- the same, Harvest has some screen which looks to be more modern as web based, some modern screen for time tracking of the individuals (which can be more convenient) but the price is higher near in two times! Incentivized Helpful?	Jive Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive We had a Google phone number set up before and Jive was a lot better option than that. It is more consistent and can be configured much easier and with more advanced settings. Additionally, based on the pricing as well as working with the rep on our account, it was a perfect … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive We also use Skype to communicate in our organization. They are both useful for organizational communication. The good thing is in Jive, you will have your own personal timeline. Jive also has a newsfeed or timeline that you can browse where you can see the latest updates from … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Van Heusen Software Architect Chose Jive Jive provided phone support which can be useful in case of emergency. Jive's initial pricing was free which helped jumpstart the process. It also provided JIRA integration which we needed for certain teams. Jive also had Zendesk integration which was useful for support teams to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive I evaluated several other tools (Bluekiwi, Jalios), I use Sharepoint standard version, but it is very difficult to compare. Incentivized Helpful? SV Shune Vickerie Operations Coordinator Chose Jive We use Jive to keep in touch and share mass updates/important information to the company. It's a good way to keep up to date on what's going on, read articles others share and get to know each other a little better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive Functions, ease of use Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive We found that Jive had integrations with the existing IT infrastructure/tools which was nicely aligned with our strategy of playing nice with the existing ecosystem, rather than compete against it. Jive uses a technology stack that is well known by our organisation … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive I honestly don't recall what we briefly used before Jive - it wasn't good and didn't last long. I think it was under-utilized because you couldn't really do a whole lot with it. Jive does pretty much everything we need it to do, so for that reason alone, Jive is the superior … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Lanier Principal Product Manager Chose Jive I was not involved in the decision to implement Jive versus competitors. My presumption is that the feature set at the time was attractive compared to options like SharePoint. Useful to note that SharePoint seems to have closed the gap in recent years. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive I think Jive is a very unique platform in that it is very user intuitive, and acts just like the social networks we've all grown to love and used to. I think it's a great way for the team in disparate locations to stay in touch, and a great way for management to monitor … Incentivized Helpful? Jeffrey Ing Software Support Specialist Chose Jive Igloo has more features than Jive. Also, it seems like the support for igloo seems to be better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive I was not involved in the decision to purchase JIVE. I was the lucky user of it. Incentivized Helpful? Anna Stepanenko Руководитель проекта Chose Jive Very powerful collaboration tool, intuitive, easy to use and commonly used by software vendors - so once you are experienced with it you can apply your knowledge using it in many places. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Reams Lead Enterprise Architect Chose Jive Jive is a little behind the curve in comparison with the latest Microsoft features. Jive's lack of native capabilities to support work that requires process or structure increasingly puts it at a disadvantage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive Jive works more with how people actually work and not how admins think that people should work. For example, relying on a folksonomy of tagging instead of a restricted taxonomy is far more practical with how users actually search for content. By putting the power to the users, … Incentivized Helpful? Carlo Saggese CTO Chose Jive Sharepoint - document centric - light on collaboration. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Whipps Advisor, Emerging Practices Chose Jive Saas.. let someone else run it The other products don't come close to the simplicity and ease of use of Jive. Jive just works. Helpful? Terry Rydzynski Digital Manager Chose Jive I was not involved in the selection process Helpful? Russell Pearson Senior Jive Consultant (Contract) Chose Jive It's the market leader in Gartner's magic quadrant and the most innovative and easy to use platform. Helpful? Chris Becker Principal Chose Jive Without getting into specifics, Jive is relatively strong in terms of more 'ready to deploy' business solutions that require less overhead on the client organization side in terms of IT infrastructure, operational support and ongoing administration and maintenance. While some … Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive Drupal would be much better suited. They have fast version upgrades and immediate customer support. Jive lacked in all those areas Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive I have worked on Lithium and Liferay. LifeRay has an advantage that it is opensource and will be cheaper. However it lacks the ton of features provided by Jive. Lithium does not support advanced customizations (except for theming). Jive does have the capability to customize … Helpful? Ayush Rastogi System Engineer Chose Jive Integration with other tools and services forced us to select Jive. Helpful? Mohammad Tareque IT Analyst - Module Lead Chose Jive Jive has very good documentation from an admin user perspective. It has provided all the libraries to implement any new functionality. Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jive jam Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Beebole	Jive
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (0 ratings)	6.6 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.1 (0 ratings)	6.1 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	6.9 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	3.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Beebole	Jive
Likelihood to Recommend	We are very happy with Beebole. Their flexible approach and willingness to grant licenses when our offshore IT partner had to onboard 25 specialists for hypercare - they gave us the licenses immediately DF Deborah Florentino IT Administrator Read full review	The content in the news section isn't totally responsive - meaning if I have a small window taking up half my screen, the images for the headline articles may not load properly and when I maximize that window, it's left with ugly half-loaded images. Also, the collaboration feature for Office documents is great in theory but tends to cause more pain than it's worth to just download the document and open it separately in Word or Excel. Incentivized Anna Stepanenko Руководитель проекта Read full review
Pros	Task management on a project Time management on a project Profitability check on each project Overtime management Gestion des tâches sur un projets Gestion des temps sur un projets Vérification de la rentabilité sur chaque projet Gestion des heures supplémentaires Gregory Dehooghe Président Read full review	Jive makes it easy to create new pages for administrators. Jive makes it easy to manage users in one area and simple to navigate administration user interface. Jive is a really good concept, the idea behind jive creates a great main hub in an organizaiton. Incentivized Jeffrey Ing Software Support Specialist Read full review
Cons	Somewhat of a cumbersome user interface / not as intuitive Interface appears a bit outdated, not as appealing as other software Reporting is cumbersome / difficult to customize views Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Search functionality is very weak The information architecture and taxonomy doesnt allow for easy discoverability of content It's hard to navigate the and find spaces/groups that I already know about The main profile/interface does not allow easy access to key tasks or common tasks. Terry Rydzynski Digital Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It has been proving its functionality since 2018 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	There are always external factors that can impact this decision but currently, the Jive platform is maintaining its lead in the market place in this area. If the innovation in this space by Jive continues, then this number will remain high. Integration with other systems and adaptability to changes in the market or in client needs will also make this decision hard to predict more then 6 months into the future Chris Becker Principal Read full review
Usability	Again, it is easy to set up projects and the phases of projects. Philip Neumann Designer Read full review	It was very cumbersome to generate reports. Often I had to run several reports and then merge them offline to get what I needed. Reporting granularity is also lacking Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	Uptime was OK. But there was one day that the system crashed for a whole day. Our company was unable to operate. And all the plugins to word/excel froze causing those systems to freeze. Jive posted a statement to the media saying all customers were up, but we were not. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	The product worked as designed. It just didn't work for our needs. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Response is always quick and intelligent! Verified User Anonymous Read full review	They did an OK job when I needed them. Except for the one day the system went down. Jive pointed the finger at the hosting company, and the hosting company pointed the finger at Jive. No reliable information came to us. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	Jive online training is there. It is OK/average. I feel some other companies are doing better. It is not a piece that is required to have a successfully implementation, but it could be useful to improve it Maxime Guglielmetti Business Intelligence coordinator & CRM expert Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	If I did this over, I would hire out the implementation. They know the best practices and could have guided us to make an easier to use setup. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	More detailed / layered options for complex organizations and teams, but Beebole's user interface is not as modern and much more cumbersome / higher learning curve Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I honestly don't recall what we briefly used before Jive - it wasn't good and didn't last long. I think it was under-utilized because you couldn't really do a whole lot with it. Jive does pretty much everything we need it to do, so for that reason alone, Jive is the superior tool. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Beebole is fantastic value from my perspective and it allows me to charge out my time in a completel;y transparent manner with my Fee Notes supported by detailed time records. This maintains Cleint trust and bills are settled promptly and without enquiries and delays. Jonathan Hawkes Tax Consultant Read full review	Makes us seem bigger than we are. Makes it so the person that manages this part of the business can go on vacation and can pass on these duties to other people when he is gone. Helped us fulfill MSA requirements from our clients to have phone support. Couldn’t have closed some of our deals without it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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