Blog Posts From Jive Talks Tagged With mobile

Making Mobile Magic

ben.kiker@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:20:55 GMT

In today’s Wall Street Journal, the article Squeezing Web Sites Onto Cellphones captures one of the biggest questions being bandied about in marketing organizations the world over - how much, or how little do customers want and need via their cell phones? And perhaps the even messier question – how on earth does one go about catering to and developing for the multitude of different devices?

The stats do speak for themselves – by the end of 2011 174 million people will be accessing social media from their mobile devices. 67% of people already work wirelessly to get their jobs done. We're all spending growing amounts of time interacting with our "community"—however we define it—and creating lots of content via our smart phones. As a result businesses large and small must determine how to best serve our evolving needs.

Delivering a rich mobile experience really boils down to two approaches – a thin, basic application that stretches across a multitude of platforms, or a more robust approach, developing rich experiences that tap into the benefits and unique offerings of each device and platform.

As I mentioned in the article, Jive truly believes the magic happens when you're able to go deep with functionality. Does it take longer to develop? Of course. But just ask our customers: it’s worth the wait. Take for example our recent launch of Jive SBS for the iPhone. Because we developed a native application, we deliver a gorgeous interface that takes full advantage of the iPhone, giving users the ability to publish blogs, upload photos, find people easily within Jive, and publish updates with geo-location.

But don’t worry, we’re not stopping there. 2010 will be another year of jaw dropping innovation for Jive, so get ready to be wowed.

Jive's Got an App for That...

chris.morace@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:29:56 GMT

"This is huge."

This is a recurring statement each and every time we demo the new Jive iPhone application and Blackberry capabilities for a customer. Social Business Software has matured rapidly and grown by leaps and bounds since the early days of wikis and blogging. But as long as our customers remained tethered to their computers, we knew we could only take the Social Business revolution so far.

Our recent announcement of the new Jive SBS 4.0 puts that problem to rest, giving people access to all of the same content and conversations they’ve worked with at their desks, extending this experience to the iPhone and Blackberry. We believe that by extending Jive to mobile devices in a meaningful way, we are making it even easier for people to get hooked on Jive. Not only that, but something about the iPhone is a lightning rod for creativity and innovation. I've gotten more incredible ideas as feedback since we started sharing this app than any piece of software I've ever built. I truly believe that within a year this application is going to fundamentally change the way people work.

As our customer Kevin Smyth, CIO at Cerner stated so eloquently:

"We are thrilled to see Jive extend the platform to the iPhone, replicating the desktop experience in a rich, seamless way. The ability to download the application straight from the Apple Apps Store is going to support rapid adoption."

We certainly hope so, but seeing is believing. Check out the screenshots. I dare you not to get hooked.

Jive code to be in millions of phones

greg@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:16:32 GMT

Recently Gato, the lead engineer for Jive's Real Time team, came across this post from Davanum Srinivas that talks about how to use the Smack XMPP library built into Android. Smack's inclusion in Android was news to us, but we're honored that our work will be included in one of the most anticipated technology releases in the mobile world since the iPhone.

In case you haven't heard of either Android or Smack, Android is Google and the Open Handset Alliance's project to create "the first complete, open, and free mobile platform." Smack is our open source XMPP library for instant messaging and presence implemented in Java.

We're pretty excited that Smack will be used on millions of phones around the world. Thanks, Android, for picking Smack!