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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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Recent Reviews

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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
Incentivized
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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  • No setup fee

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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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November 06, 2019

Jive is great!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
July 23, 2018

My Jive Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The effects have been mostly positive as we did not previously have a company-wide tool of this type available to all employees. That's not necessarily specific to Jive as we could have used any tool, but Jive is largely up to the job.
  • The only negative impact has been an occasional poor use of the tool, which has not had the desired effect of a more productive workforce.
  • The ability to share information with third parties outside the company on a limited basis is a plus for collaboration with partners.
June 04, 2018

Jive Review

Jason Lanier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easier to find information about internal initiatives.
  • Useful for storing content in a shared repository and not on local computers.
  • The notifications system of Jive has prevented errors in executing company policy, based on alerts from Jive to flag new content.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Social collaboration makes everything so much better. Eliminates 75% of email and missed information.
  • Encourages intradepartmental engagement through ease of use.
  • Customization allows for tailored experience and ease of implementation.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cannot speak for my company but it clearly had the same impact Facebook had on the outside world. It allowed everyone in all of the corners of the company to have a voice, to rate content and comment on existent content, to collaborate better with similar interest users and to develop professionally by better having visibility in what opportunities, classes, seminars are out there.
  • It is NOT SharePoint and SharePoint is NOT Jive! They are different and they should be! There are features that are on the wish list for Jive to mimic from SharePoint and that is fine but the difference is clear and SharePoint will never be Jive in terms of ease of built, usability or collaboration!
Anna Stepanenko | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Our phone system runs perfectly due to their awesome customer service. We are able to rely on all the different features that they offer in order to make the experience here are Wеb2win more professional and enjoyable.
  • Jive gives our team a space to collaborate without clogging up our email inboxes. Instead of sending emails to a couple different listserves and having to dig to find certain threads, we can migrate some of those discussions to Jive posts. Similarly, Jive is a space for discussions that falls outside of our normal workflow.
Maxime Guglielmetti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Very hard to get concrete ROI numbers... same for Salesforce or any other tools.
  • Overall positive impact, it trained people to work differently and collaborate. Some people work more efficiently. People need to want the change to get all the benefits from it.
  • The only negative thing I can see is the complexity that those tools bring to the organization. Those tools are very user friendly and people underestimate a lot of things. It is a big mistake. These tools need a serious project team to implement. In some companies, the collaboration topic is a big mess, and so it is frequent that users have to use Jive, Google docs and some others tools. It can be confusing and not productive in the end.
Chris Becker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Saves time and effort to completion of deliverables (increases productivity or profit as a result)
  • Increased speed and accuracy related to getting answers to questions
  • General increase in openness and access to people and information - creates opportunities for sharing and networking that did not exist before - adding transparency to the organization is a big plus.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Increased productivity (when a defined set of users fully commit to using the platform).
  • Makes it much easier to find people (efficiency).
  • Terrific way to bookmark/like and share corporate content, people and ideas (productivity).
February 21, 2014

Jive Talking

Terry Rydzynski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Better project collaboration
  • Global sharing of learnings and best practices on common problems
  • Increased visibility of high-performing individuals, regardless of current position within the organisation
February 15, 2014

Look elsewhere

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Employees and partners constantly complained of how slow and clunky it was
  • It offered plenty of ways to interact, but most clients and employees were not willing to take the time to research and learn all the widgets and gadgets
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