Press Release
Leading Industry Analyst firm Positions Jive Software in the Visionaries quadrant in Magic Quadrant for Social Software
PORTLAND, OR, NOVEMBER 7, 2008 - Jive Software (www.jivesoftware.com), the pure-play collaboration software leader, today announced Gartner, Inc. positioned it in the Visionaries quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Social Software. As well, Jive announced it recognized strong revenue and continued customer growth in the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Jive's revenues have grown steadily 20% quarter over quarter this year. In addition, Jive continues to gain new customers in a variety of industries including healthcare, government, technology and education.
According to the report, "Visionaries in the market demonstrate a strong understanding of current and future market trends and directions, such as the importance of a flexible and transparent collaboration environment, as well as the value of mutual reinforcement between tools that encourage user contribution and tools that encourage bottom-up group and structure formation. Their products and product road maps display a penchant for innovation, especially in terms of architecture and lightweight integration, while their marketing and R&D efforts are boosted by their alignment with the opensource "ecosystem." The Visionaries in this market have not exhibited the scope of delivery of the Challengers, but have demonstrated vision across a range of capabilities."
"We believe that Jive's growth and recognition from Gartner proves that there is a transformative power in community-based collaboration and it really is changing the way companies work," said Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive Software. "Collaboration continues to be a major area of enterprise investment and, in addition to new customers, we've also seen a lot of growth with existing customers as they add more of their employee base onto Jive's Clearspace application."
Jive's flagship products, Clearspace and Clearspace Community, are the industry's leading enterprise-class social business software applications that combine the latest content creation tools with community-driven intelligence. Jive is the only platform that can support both outward-facing online customer communities and inward-facing employee collaboration solutions effectively and successfully. By presenting Web 2.0 and traditional communication tools in an intuitive and unified way, Clearspace is transforming the way companies work, resulting in better products, faster processes and a more connected workforce.
For more information about the customers using Jive Software, please visit http://www.jivesoftware.com/customers
About Jive Software:
Jive Software is the leader of the enterprise Social Business Software market. Jive brings together employees, partners and customers in a unified collaboration system, allowing them to create better products, faster processes and improved relationships. Its flagship products, Clearspace and Clearspace Community, are used by more than 2,500 customers worldwide, including more than 15% of the Fortune 500. Jive was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit Jive Software online at http://www.jivesoftware.com.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 31, 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Drakos, Bradley, Mann. "Magic Quadrant for Social Software." Gartner. October 31, 2008.
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