Press Release
Access Jive Anywhere with Jive Mobile for iPhone and BlackBerry
Jive Delivers New Native Application for iPhone and Enhanced Capabilities for Smartphones
Portland, OR - October 28, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced Jive Mobile, a new module for Jive Social Business Software (SBS) that enables mobile workers to easily connect with people and resources while they are out of the office. Jive Mobile provides a native application for Apple's iPhone and a significantly enhanced experience for the BlackBerry and any other email enabled mobile devices.
- The Jive Mobile iPhone App provides Apple iPhone or Apple iPod Touch users full access to Jive SBS for online networking and collaboration. Jive Mobile also lets users leverage the unique properties of the iPhone, including integration with mobile contacts, geolocation updates, and the built-in camera.
- Jive Mobile extends the basic core email functionality of Jive SBS - reply via mail to discussion threads - to allow users of any mobile device with e-mail access to create and post Jive community content via email.
- Jive Mobile is available as an add-on module to Jive SBS Version 4, also announced today. For more information on Jive SBS 4.0, see today's news release.
Product Highlights: Jive SBS Mobile for the iPhone
- With Jive SBS Mobile, iPhone users can work inside Jive essentially the same way they do on their desktop:
- Find the people you need by tapping into rich profiles and one-touch call information
- Find and share the content you need with full search, link, and send capabilities
- Engage with others on specific projects or business issues through discussion threads, blogs, documents, comments, and replies
- Stay up to date with what people are saying and doing by following activity based on your colleagues and connections
- iPhone or iPod Touch users can download Jive SBS Mobile directly from the iTunes App Store to connect with their enterprise's license of Jive Mobile.
Product Highlights: Jive SBS Mobile for Smart-phones
- In its core functionality, Jive SBS enables users to reply to email notifications generated from content users follow. With Jive SBS Mobile, users can now create content via email as well, such as creating new blogs, discussions, documents, and status updates.
- Leveraging vCard technology, Jive associates profile data of each Jive community space to an email address. Jive SBS users simply download the vCard for a particular space or group to their BlackBerry contacts list to participate in or create a discussion, document, or blog within that space. Email notifications from particular spaces and groups provide links to reply to the content as well as links to create new content to facilitate direct authoring capabilities.
Jive Commentary
- "The explosion of social networking onto the mobile phone scene has demonstrated what is possible when you allow people to stay connected, regardless of where they are," said Christopher Morace, SVP Products of Jive Software. "Now, mobile workers can connect and collaborate with colleagues participating in critical business conversations, anytime, anywhere."
- "For the past two years, Jive has been critical for Knowledge Infusion in delivering on-demand consulting services, extending our value proposition to clients, and creating a new revenue stream for the company," said Jason Corsello, Vice President, Knowledge Infusion, a leading human resource consulting firm. "Our services are designed to help HR, IT, and business leaders maximize their HR and talent management technology investments on a holistic level. The introduction of Jive Mobile will provide firms like ours with the opportunity to engage via mobile, with our community of customers, partners, employees, and influencers. Not only does Jive Mobile's access for the iPhone, Blackberry and other devices solve one of the largest challenges we face, but we also see this as an accelerator to driving the introduction of new on-demand business models and offerings built off of the Jive platform."
Product Availability
- The Jive Mobile module is generally available as an add-on to Jive SBS 4.0.
Additional Resources
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
Media Contacts
Bronwyn Saglimbeni
Reidy Communications for Jive
408-414-7250
bronwyn@reidycommunications.com
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