Press Release
Leading Analyst Firm Places Jive in Leaders Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace
Portland, OR -- October 23, 2009
Company News
- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced that Gartner, Inc. positioned Jive in the Leaders Quadrant of its 2009 report "Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace." (1) Gartner positions vendors in the "Leaders" quadrant based on completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision.
- According to Gartner, "Leaders are well established vendors with widely used social software and collaboration offerings. Their leadership is being established through an early recognition of user needs in this market, their overall market presence, and their success in delivering user-friendly and solution focussed suites with broad capabilities."
- Built with the best features of collaboration software, community software, and popular social applications, Jive Social Business Software enables businesses to connect and capitalize on the intellectual and creative content of employee and customer conversations.
Jive Commentary
- "We believe Jive's Leader position in Gartner's new 'Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace' is another example of the strong validation we're receiving for our approach to transforming how work gets done in the global enterprise and for our market momentum," said Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software. "Jive is committed to enabling our customers to identify and solve critical challenges inside and outside their organization. I'd like to recognize the entire Jive team for their efforts in expanding the reach and possibilities of Social Business Software."
Additional Resources
(1) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace," by Nikos Drakos et al., Oct. 22, 2009
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 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.
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, andcommunity 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
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