Bonusly vs. Jive

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bonusly
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Bonusly is designed to be a fun, personal recognition & rewards program to enrich company culture and improve employee engagement. With Bonusly, everyone in an organization can publicly recognize everyone else by giving small bonuses that add up to meaningful rewards. Connect recognition to your core values. Give visibility to everyone's contributions. Integrate with communication tools your employees use every day. Streamline all types of recognition &…
$2.70
per user/per month
Jive
Score 8.5 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
BonuslyJive
Editions & Modules
Core
$2.70
per user/per month
Pro
$4.50
per user/per month
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BonuslyJive
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe pricing above reflects month-to-month billing. Discounts are available for annual billing. Custom enterprise pricing includes every Core & Pro feature, plus: - 99% guaranteed uptime SLA - Dedicated support and consultation team - Launch strategy and rollout support - Manager resources and training
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User Ratings
BonuslyJive
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(5 ratings)
9.1
(37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.6
(17 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.1
(4 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.9
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BonuslyJive
Likelihood to Recommend
Bonusly
Bonusly can be a game changer for fostering a culture of appreciation and engagement amongst staff. It speaks especially well to the younger generation, but even our more senior staff seem to love it to. I could see it being a little more difficult to use in industries in which technology use was not part of the day to day work, as you do need to either pull the app up or look at your email to know if someone sent you Bonusly points and recognition. In any office setting, education, healthcare, technology, or other industry though that includes an email or computer component, Bonusly ties seamlessly into the day and I have yet to find a place that has implemented it who hasn’t loved it
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Aurea
It's definitely worth considering Jive for the type of application we've developed i.e. a central shared repository for all employees to host and discuss information. I can't say I have ever used a superior tool, but they may exist. I'm just not sure I would want to use it exclusively for file hosting, though. It does integrate with various other tools, so perhaps it would be fine if used in conjunction with another tool for that purpose.
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Pros
Bonusly
  • Prize selection, a wide variety of gift card, charity, and even PayPal cash payout options.
  • Prize reclamation/flow of money in, and points out. Most other systems are not nearly as hands-free as this. People are able to claim everything with zero approval/foot-work from your HR/Admin team. No prize book to maintain, no trips to the gas station to buy gift cards. It's just smooth.
  • Freedom to post however/whatever you like in the open-ended timeline/social media-esk posting feature.
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Aurea
  • Individual design
  • Presence of Russian language (localization can be independently established)
  • You can configure several information tapes with different themes. One for work, the second for communication
  • A newly-arrived network user immediately receives a prepared block for beginners. After completing several game tasks, the user will receive the basics of using Jive.
  • There is a template for each scenario. There is even a template for planning R&D, and there are more than twenty of them.
  • Integrates with MS Office, Google Drive, Google Docs
  • There are all platforms (even Winphone and blackberry)
  • You can create forum threads
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Cons
Bonusly
  • N/A - I think bonusly does great for what it is
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Aurea
  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Bonusly
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Aurea
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
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Usability
Bonusly
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Aurea
It was harder to use that expected. The admin needs to be code savvy to truly customize the system. And users need to trained on the system and the setup. Trainings and monitoring need to continue to enforce use.
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Reliability and Availability
Bonusly
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Aurea
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.
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Performance
Bonusly
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Aurea
The product worked as designed. It just didn't work for our needs.
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Support Rating
Bonusly
I never had any issues with support. It's especially nice to be able to add location-specific rewards.
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Aurea
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.
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Online Training
Bonusly
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Aurea
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
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Implementation Rating
Bonusly
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Aurea
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.
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Alternatives Considered
Bonusly
Bonusly builds a recognition-rich culture like no other reward and recognition software by empowering everyone to recognize their peers, direct reports, and managers. With nifty features and a simple interface, Bonusly is fun and intuitive to use and employees tend to adopt quickly and use it frequently. It is definitely a game-changer.
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Aurea
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 option for us
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Return on Investment
Bonusly
  • For the majority of months over the past year months, over 95% of our active employees receive Bonusly points from at least one coworker each month, increasing the opportunities to feel appreciated for the hard work they do.
  • More than 50% of Bonusly points and appreciation that are given by one employee are "added onto" by another employee, showing that the staff really do read through the great things others are doing and thus prompt one another to celebrate as well.
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Aurea
  • reduce email traffic
  • reduce amount of files/documents scattered & lost across shared drives
  • increased discovery, awareness and interaction of historically more separated individuals & team functions across the organisation
  • from an IT perspective, we've benefited from improved IT operations (e.g. troubleshooting info shared and easily searched/found with all team members - such that even junior team members can solve technical problems outside of business hours, lessening the burden for standby/call-in for more senior team members)
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ScreenShots

Jive Screenshots

Screenshot of Jive's Interactive Intranet software provides a single platform for employee collaboration without complication.