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What is Jive?

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…

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Jive has been widely used across organizations, serving as a powerful tool for collaboration and communication. With its user-friendly …
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Jive is great!

10 out of 10
November 06, 2019
Incentivized
We use Jive across our whole organization. We do most of our work through email but needed a phone number for support and other issues. …
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My Jive Review

8 out of 10
July 23, 2018
Incentivized
Across the whole organisation with a focus on day-to-day operational issues and business planning:
  • lateral comms: coordination within and …
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Jive talkin' (sorry)

7 out of 10
June 13, 2018
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Jive is being used across the entire organization to provide a company-wide internal resource for file hosting, discussion, announcements …
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What is Jive?

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.…

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Product Details

What is Jive?

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.

Jive Screenshots

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

Axero, Sprinklr Service, and Microsoft Yammer are common alternatives for Jive.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 6.1.

The most common users of Jive are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Jive has been widely used across organizations, serving as a powerful tool for collaboration and communication. With its user-friendly interface and minimal initial training required, Jive has successfully facilitated the sharing of knowledge, overcoming geographical and organizational barriers. Users have reported that Jive has helped in creating working groups for commercial proposal preparation, enabling effective case handling and discussion among global tech support teams, and integrating new affiliates into the organization seamlessly. It has also served as an intranet platform, replacing aging systems and providing a centralized hub for communication, collaboration, and storage of important documents. Additionally, Jive has been highly regarded for its ability to set up communities for collaboration, crowdsourcing ideas, and engaging with employees. It has been successful in improving transparency within organizations, connecting employees worldwide, and enhancing business gains. Moreover, Jive serves as a front-facing customer collaboration site, allowing for the resolution of issues and the posting of relevant information. Furthermore, it has hosted external-facing communities for customers and partners to discuss products and resolve issues. With its versatility and integration capabilities, Jive has proven to be an essential tool for businesses in various industries, promoting collaboration, innovation, and interactive internal communications.

Versatile and Seamless Communication: Several users have praised Jive for its versatility in enabling seamless communication and enhancing collaboration within the organization. They appreciate the ability to connect with anyone in the organization, publish work for feedback and collaboration, and efficiently communicate with colleagues. This feature fosters a connected and productive work environment.

Customizable Information Organization: Many reviewers find Jive's ability to configure multiple information tapes with different themes valuable. This customizable feature allows users to organize information based on their specific needs and preferences, enhancing productivity by ensuring easy accessibility and organization of relevant information.

User-Friendly Onboarding Experience: A number of users highlight Jive's prepared block for beginners as helpful in getting new network users acquainted with the platform through game tasks. This user-friendly onboarding experience helps new users quickly adapt to the platform, promoting a smooth transition and effective utilization of Jive from the start.

Weak and limited search functionality: Users have expressed frustration with the weak and limited search functionality in Jive, making it difficult for them to find content and navigate the platform. Several reviewers have mentioned that they struggle to locate specific information or groups without prior knowledge of their location.

Challenging information architecture and taxonomy: Some users have found it challenging to discover and locate spaces or groups in Jive due to its information architecture and taxonomy. They feel that the organization of content is not intuitive, leading to difficulties in finding what they are looking for.

Lack of real-time collaborative editing capabilities: Working on a document with other people in Jive can be cumbersome as it requires downloading the file, making changes in another program, and re-uploading the document. Many users desire real-time collaborative editing capabilities similar to Google Docs, which would streamline collaboration and improve productivity.

Based on user reviews, there are several common recommendations for Jive.

Users suggest implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) to improve accessibility and streamline the login process for employees. They also recommend trying out Jive before making a decision and researching to find the best fit for specific business needs. This includes taking a trial before purchasing the product and involving a partner when using Jive.

Additionally, users recommend using Jive for various aspects of the business, such as answering employee questions, intra-office communication, collaboration, and sharing internal documents. They emphasize the importance of getting executive support and IT ownership for Jive to maximize its potential.

These recommendations highlight the benefits of implementing SSO, conducting thorough research, and utilizing Jive for multiple aspects of the business to improve communication and collaboration within an organization.

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I advise to use Jive when you want to share information in your organization easier and faster and you want to have group communication. You can post updates or articles in just one click. Your post will be seen by your coworkers in their timeline and they can also add feedback.
November 06, 2019

Jive is great!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For us we primarily use it for phone support that isn’t used very much and it works well for us. We don’t have a high call volume so for the price and what we need it for it has been a great option.

When it does ring through to me I don’t know that the number is coming from Jive so I don’t know which is a personal call and which is for work.
Kevin Van Heusen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jive works well for larger companies, it can work best when companies are geographically distributed. If you have a good number of employees, the articles can be a better means of communication than group-wide emails. Your employees can comment, and react to comments and articles without necessarily spamming the whole group like with email. It's less appropriate for smaller teams, there are leaner systems for communicating there.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It allows you to share and collaborate on documents and connect with more effectively with co-workers and stay tuned in what is going on within my organisation. It shares information that is easily compared to emailing something to everyone in my group. I can use see documents from other divisions that are helpful and would not be able to find on the company website.
July 23, 2018

My Jive Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Very likely. Jive is great for teams & organisations that are separated by time and/or distance to share information and coordinate effort, planning and thinking. With time spent educating and coaching, it is a much better alternative to email and shared folders. My only concern is that recently there have been signs or at least rumors to the effect that customers need to abide by some minimum threshold for number of accounts, and demonstrate growth potential, or face the risk that licenses won't be renewed. From a business perspective, this doesn't make sense to me because any customer small or large represents revenue, so I'm hoping it is just that: a rumour. I would likely rate it 9 or 10 were it not for this concern (founded or not) that I have for the longer term.
Erica Marois | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jive is an amazing way to share weekly reports/updates. We post weekly Google Analytics Reports, social media engagement stats, and sales updates in a private group for our team. It's a nice way to share updates without clogging up email inboxes. More importantly, the whole team can comment and update the documents. It's also nice to be able to share larger files without worrying about size limits.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
June 04, 2018

Jive Review

Jason Lanier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jive is a fairly effective tool to use for an internal knowledge base and repository of employee-curated content. Group-level permissions are helpful to segment content across large teams. I would not recommend Jive as a blogging platform.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jive is great for people in remote locations to still connect with other employees. it's also great to keep a history of these sorts of discussions for future reference. We use it to ask for solution architecture ideas and potential customer solutions that might/might not work. For example, if the VMWare expert in San Diego sees a question regarding a customer environment that needs software upgrades, they can chime in
February 09, 2018

Jive-n Intranet Platform

Jeffrey Ing | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jive is a great intranet platform and a great place to store critical documents that the whole organizations would need. Jive does not do well with real-time collaborations, it is clunky in that aspect and the implementation of collaboration is too hard to understand for most normal users.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jive is a fantastic tool for publishing content to a company intranet, simply because its publishing capabilities are fairly comprehensive and easy to understand. It supports many types of content, from written to multimedia and offers a variety of layout and navigation customizations. Jive can be used across companies, from engineering to HR to marketing, making communication among departments relatively easy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • If fine-tuned well, Jive can serve as a powerful collaboration/social media site - internal Facebook with customized websites as easy to build as Google Sites, with content storage and search capabilities similar to Dropbox.
    • You can post Office documents easily and best, you can tag them for better search later. My favorite tool is the creation of links to specific tagged content. So if you have 3 documents in the mass of 1000, but only 3 are tagged with "insurance", you can actually create a "insurance" view that filters just for those 3 docs. That view can be linked on the first page, or any page for easy navigation.
    • you can create Jive documents and that's where the endless opportunities are - tables can be used in splitting the content (if you make borders invisible); you can add photos, links, embed YouTube content. Each of the documents are like pages in a website, later capable to link to them.
Anna Stepanenko | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Maxime Guglielmetti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It always depends on the needs of the users. Make your users tell you about their issues, their needs and you will understand if implementing jive is worth it. Jive is good when people don't see each other every day if they live in different countries, it is good for cross functional teams, it is good for international project, project shared by different teams. Jive can be also useful for simple project, it can help really any kind of project or teams. At the end it depends on the people and leadership. Make sure you have a strong commitment from the top managers before pushing anything.
Chris Becker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Intra organization and team collaboration is a strength. Depending on the type of deployment, the fact that the SaaS model is largely developed makes it relatively easy for organizations to deploy the technology from a IT perspective - there is relatively less need to do deep technical 'add on' build and maintenance work than some other platforms.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Completely depends on the context of the question and the existence of a clear strategy and plan of attack for collaboration. I'd ask, what's the goal (why do you think you need such a platform), try to understand their goals (ie revenue, productivity, efficiency, innovation etc), and perhaps most importantly, what is their culture. Are they naturally collaborative or hierarchical with a command/control and top down management/leadership.
February 21, 2014

Jive Talking

Terry Rydzynski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As a piece of software, it attempts to solve the problems of internal communications within distributed organisations but the specifics on how it does that should be considered before deciding if it's an appropriate fit.
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