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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Jive-x (Discontinued)

    Score4 out of 10
    N/AJive-x (formerly Jive Engage) is Jive's external facing community platform for prospects and customers. It is a leading product in the space and most often competes with Lithium Community and Telligent Community.N/A

    Partnerize

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/APartnerize from Performance Horizon Group is a SaaS partner automation platform, designed to allow the user to form and grow partnerships, from affiliates to influencers and strategic brand partners.N/A
    Pricing
    Jive-x (Discontinued)Partnerize
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Jive-x (Discontinued)Partnerize
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Jive-x (Discontinued)Partnerize
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Jive-x (Discontinued) and Partnerize
    Feature
    Jive-x (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Partnerize
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Data exportability00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Partner performance analytics00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Partner Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Partner Lifecycle Management features of Jive-x (Discontinued) and Partnerize
    Feature
    Jive-x (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Partnerize
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Lead distribution00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Partner discovery and onboarding00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Referral tracking00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Journey builder00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Jive-x (Discontinued) and Partnerize
    Feature
    Jive-x (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Partnerize
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Co-branded collateral00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Content sharing00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Partner collaboration tools00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
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    Jive-x (Discontinued)Partnerize
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    Higher Logic Thrive
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Higher Logic Vanilla
    Score5.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Verint Community
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Jive-x (Discontinued)Partnerize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Jive-x (Discontinued)Partnerize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Jive-x is great for external communities for support deflection or customer communication and document sharing/editing. If you spend the money on the available add-ons and integrations, you could use it for customer education/learning. It's less appropriate for use as a revenue -generating tool or a lead-generating platform.
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    Partnerize
    Since Parterize's partnership announcement with Konnecto I'm looking forwars to some exciting improvements to the platform that will embrace AI tools for reporting and communication with partners
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    Pros
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • I write these from the perspective of the Community Manager - You can choose your level of moderation on Jive to match the policies of your organisation. From full on content pre-moderation to to completely reactive moderation, you can take your pick. We chose the latter end of the spectrum, trust your colleagues to be professional and you will be rewarded with professional content.
    • The ability for users to set up their own groups very easily with out the need to revert to developers is great as this allows individuality. This allows for organic growth with out impact on the budgets of departments and teams to get their work done on Jive. The option is always there to get 'someone in to fancy it up a bit' however you will find that your own people will develop those skills themselves. Your users will also learn from each other and you should actively encourage stealing of best practice from across your organisation.
    • The knowledge repository or Question and Answer features are the most value-adding for me. Having searchable history that allows your to get answers quickly so the next question can be asked is the reason why you should have a collaboration platform in the first place, Jive makes that easy.
    • Single Sign On has been a excellent addition for us, if Jive does not make your colleagues lives easier then they won't use it.
    • You can customize and brand Jive to reflect your company identity.
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    Partnerize
    • Selection of merchants
    • Create data reports
    • Striking inferface
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • No QA environment. It's cloud-based so you need to purchase another instance to set up a QA environment.
    • The gamification system is not as user intuitive as you'd expect. The admin spends more time setting up opportunities than they should need to.
    • Jive-x was bought out by three different companies in the last 2 years. There is an uncertainty of how long it will be supported and updated.
    Incentivized
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    Partnerize
    • The reporting interface for publishers could be improved to be more user friendly.
    • Contract term special conditions are difficult to find and sometimes not available so this area could be improved.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    For a large company the cost can quickly escalate so this must taken into account when renewing. For me, the decision to review will be taken with upgrading to the cloud version in mind as well. My power users love Jive for it versatility but it is important to note that you must be prepared to constantly train and coach the non-power users
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    Partnerize
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The end user should be able to find what they need. They don't even need to be logged in to search for content.
    Incentivized
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    Partnerize
    My business is able to extract what we need from Partnerize to access and analyse performance data. Once you know what you're doing and where everything is, it's great. There is always room for improvement as the industry evolves and more metrics become available though
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    Performance
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    It works wonders. My only gripe would be that there are some customizations you can't make without hiring a vendor with coding experience to implement them.
    Incentivized
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    Partnerize
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The support has been fantastic when we have been trying to code our own apps. Jive have went above and beyond what was required to help us out. Bugs fixes are generally very good and they are upfront when they are unable to help or a 'problem' is actually in need of Professional Services
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    Partnerize
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    For the money, it just happens to fit best with our original use case. Now that it's been sold to Aurea, which essentially halted any support or dev for the product before selling it off to Lithium, we will have to eventually move off of it (this assumes Lithium won't hire devs for code they didn't build, and that's not a bad assumption). So, while I recommend it, it's with the caveat that it's been sold and will be evolving in the near future.
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    Partnerize
    Awin is a far friendlier and easier to use interface, though Partnerize offers a different variety of merchants
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Hard to quantify the results...but I also left the company before we had built a mature instance of Jive in-house so the final results/impact were yet to be fully realized and measured.
    • The use of Jive brought together multiple-departments for the first time in our 50+ year old company to truly build an "end-to-end" approach to our marketing/sales/fulfillment/customer service engine. It was truly phenomenal to watch how the internal life-cycle of a prospect-turned-customer literally transformed and unified our inter-departmental teams through the use of Jive Engage.
    Incentivized
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    Partnerize
    • Analysing revenue streams
    • Maintaining affiliate relationships
    Incentivized
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