New SVP of Sales, Board Member, Forrester Wave and Scoble video

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:07:22 GMT

We just finished up one of our best quarters ever, and 2009 is kicking off with a bang. A few very noteworthy items to share with you.

First and most importantly, we formally announced that John McCracken has joined Jive as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and that Bill Lanfri has joined the Board of Directors. John is a hugely talented sales leader who has worked with most of our other execs during his time at Mercury (as well as Tony Zingale on our board, the former CEO of Mercury). Bill Lanfri is a very seasoned leader who has seen the technology growth curve many times, and has already made a big impact as an advisor. Both have the experience we need to continue building Jive into a great company and I'm thrilled to have them on board.

Secondly, this past Friday Forrester Research released its WAVE report on Community Platforms. We are excited to be named a leader in the space and we encourage you to read the full report if you're a Forrester client. Jeremiah Owyang, senior analyst at Forrester, is thorough and insightful. It’s an honor to be included with the other vendors and the report is a feather in the cap for the Social Business Software market.

Also worth noting, in the first week of January, Jive’s CMO Sam Lawrence, sat down with Robert Scoble and talked a bit about the company’s plans for the year. He provides a great overview of Social Business Software and really captured the essence of what Jive is working to accomplish. Sam also gives a few hints about what you can expect from Jive in Q1.

All in all, a great start to the year. But there's more to come soon.

Happy New Year, everyone.

Clearspace 2.0 in the spotlight

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:30:26 GMT

Our Clearspace 2.0 launch was very exciting. The media, blogosphere, and twittersphere response was overwhelming. Our team has been cranking hard for many months to bring Clearspace 2.0 to market, and it is an honor to have this much interest in our work. A big thanks to everyone at Jive. Below is a sample of the 50+ articles that were written about the new 2.0 and the Jotlet acquisition:

Jive Clearspace 2.0: a clear improvement, by Dennis Howlett on Enterprise Alley/ZDNet
Jive Brings Consumer-Style Coolness to the Enterprise, by Marshall Kirkpatrick on ReadWrite Web
Jive Software Releases Clearspace 2.0, Acquires Jotlet, by Mark Hendrickson on TechCrunch
Jive Clearspace 2.0 is named "2.0" for a reason, by Rick Turoczy on Silicon Florist
Jive's Clearspace: Using Web 2.0 tools to avoid e-mail in business, by Martin LaMonica on CNET
Collaborative software company Jive acquires Jotlet, gets better project management, by Anthony Ha on VentureBeat
Jive, Maker of Enterprise Wikis and Blogs, Announces Integration with Sharepoint, by Chris Lynch on CIO.com
Jive adds social network to collaboration software, by Heather Havenstein on Computerworld
For a larger list of articles that came out, you can find more aggregated on BlogPulse

Buzz factor

The chart below shows the blogging buzz surrounding Jive Software this past Monday & Tuesday, versus the past two months (from Nielsen BuzzMetrics' BlogPulse). Big spike! Look to the right of the chart:

As the Clearspace 2.0 dust settles

We'll be writing a series posts over the next few weeks to walk-through the new features that we're most excited about:

Personalized homepage - The widgetized home page is geared to drive faster adoption and improve employee focus and attention
Expanded profile and org charts - Rich user profiles and organizational relationships increase context about people and make it easier to develop connections and find expertise. It provides a Facebook-like user browsing experience, but presented in a business-oriented org chart.
Project spaces - Projects are designed to drive cross-functional productivity and manage towards an outcome, with tasks, checkpoints, and calendar views.
Sharepoint integration - Integration helps bring unity across a common corporate intranet and leverages existing systems rather than creating yet another siloed system.
External document sharing - Secure document sharing outside the firewall enables productivity tools to be extended to external partners and vendors when needed.
Audit tools - The admin console's audit view provides visibility and control to IT administrators regarding any changes in the admin console.
Backend upgrades - Upgrades to the core Clearspace underpinnings make it faster and more reliable.

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New SVP of Sales, Board Member, Forrester Wave and Scoble video

Clearspace 2.0 in the spotlight

Buzz factor

As the Clearspace 2.0 dust settles

Stay tuned! We're looking forward to hearing what you think about Clearspace 2.0.