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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Jive

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AJive 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

    TaskRay

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ATaskRay is a project management platform for managing project within Salesforce. It enables work to be planned quickly and efficiently, across geographically distributed teams. It supports collaboration using Chatter groups, and file sharing.

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    JiveTaskRay
    Editions & Modules
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    TaskRay
    $25.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JiveTaskRay
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    JiveTaskRay
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Jive and TaskRay
    Feature
    Jive
    -
    Ratings
    TaskRay
    8.6
    5 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Jive and TaskRay
    Feature
    Jive
    -
    Ratings
    TaskRay
    8.5
    3 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Invoicing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    JiveTaskRay
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (37 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.6
    (17 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    6.1
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.9
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JiveTaskRay
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    TaskRay is a great solution for small to medium sized businesses running multiple projects at the same time. It is very cost effective and their development team is actively adding new functionality regularly. If you prefer working from a tiled Kanban board view, this is highly worth evaluating.
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    Pros
    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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    Bracket Labs
    • Onboarding Templates
    • Scheduling Onboarding tasks and assignments to client and employees
    • Creating project logs so that everyone knows what is being worked on
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    Cons
    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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    Bracket Labs
    • Unfortunately TaskRay does not allow us to share templates externally with customers.
    • We have employees all over the world and we don't think TaskRay will support other languages such as Japanese. Note, I am speaking with a sales rep next week to confirm this, so we may be incorrect.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Bracket Labs
    It's hands-down the best PM tool we have ever used. Nothing compares in ease of use and being easy to learn. It also looks great and makes sense immediately
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    Usability
    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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    Bracket Labs
    Easy Easy Easy to use
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Bracket Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Aurea
    The product worked as designed. It just didn't work for our needs.
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    Bracket Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Bracket Labs
    I have not had many support issues but when I have, they have been courteous helpful, and solved the issue
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    Online Training
    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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    Bracket Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    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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    Bracket Labs
    Again, just like the app, the implementation was very easy.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Bracket Labs
    We are still in our year long evaluation process. But TaskRay has been the easiest, and most successfully adopted tool so far. Even if we do not end up choosing TaskRay, I do not regret implementing the system or the experience working with the team at TaskRay. The only reason we may not end up going with TaskRay is lack of templates and slightly stunted reporting features (this is mainly due to Salesforce limitations). Our organization is growing so quickly, we need to consider tools that are better able to regiment processes in a larger group of Customer Service Representatives and give management more detailed insight into those activities.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Bracket Labs
    • It was highly effective in organizing projects and sprints.
    • Time cards were easy to manage.
    • TaskRay's integration with Salesforce is a huge win as well as you can leverage workflows, approval processes, and alert notifications.
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    Jive Screenshots

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