Jive Review
June 04, 2018
Jive Review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Jive
We use Jive for collaboration pages and to serve as an intranet of sorts - an internal knowledge base.
- Tagging and labeling are flexible and useful for searches.
- Document editing is flexible and supports most of the options that you would expect.
- Page configuration and display options also allow for some customization of "look and feel."
- Search results don't always produce timely topics.
- I find that Jive lacks a modern aesthetic but your mileage may vary.
- Copy / paste of bullet point content from MSWord is not effective, and this can be frustrating when transferring content.
- 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.
I was not involved in the decision to implement Jive versus competitors. My presumption is that the feature set at the time was attractive compared to options like SharePoint. Useful to note that SharePoint seems to have closed the gap in recent years.