Press Release
Lufthansa Selects Jive Software to Power Its Networking and Collaboration Initiative
PORTLAND, OR, August 19 - Jive Software, the Social Business Software leader, today announced Deutsche Lufthansa AG is powering its company-wide networking initiative with the Jive Social Business Software platform. Lufthansa is one of the world's largest airlines serving about 200 destinations in nearly 80 countries. The employee community, named eTeaming, helps improve productivity and spawn innovation by improving communication within Lufthansa's project groups, teams and communities.
Lufthansa conducted significant due diligence prior to selecting Jive for its new initiative. Lufthansa researched a variety of software vendors matching its business requirements with product functionality and fit within Lufthansa's IT architecture. Additionally, the company ran pilot programs over a four month time period. When the pilot was complete, the pilot participants resoundingly chose Jive for its usability and complete set of functionality. After months of research, Lufthansa selected Jive for its user experience and open platform that easily integrated with Lufthansa's existing IT infrastructure and applications.
The new eTeaming community helps address many of the current challenges Lufthansa employees face in an increasingly communications-dependent business environment. With eTeaming, business users can quickly start open or private discussions, create closed workgroups and stay connected with other employees' activities regardless of the hierarchal or geographical location within the organization. The result is an open environment where business users openly share ideas and innovation is encouraged."
Currently, a tremendous amount of information and thus, knowledge, is stored on individual's desktops, network shares or in their email inboxes," said Klaus Lukas, Director Enterprise Portal, Deutsche Lufthansa AG. "We hope to break up these silos of information making it extremely simple for people to share and find the information they need and use in their everyday work."
"eTeaming is a great example of how a large organization is promoting communication and innovation within its organization to battle the current challenges within the market," said Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive Software. "It's exciting to see a leading global enterprise such as Lufthansa adopt social networking and collaboration technologies to engage, motivate and increase the productivity of its workforce."
Jive SBS is the industry's only suite of social business applications purpose-built for Global 2000 enterprises. Jive's solutions go beyond collaboration software, allowing people both inside and outside of the enterprise to connect, communicate and collaborate like never before, reducing the cost, time and risk required to produce business results.
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's collaboration software and community software solutions are the first to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
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