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What you wished Microsoft Office could do. Courtesy of Jive.
View Microsoft Office documents and create inline comments from directly within Jive SBS.
It’s a conundrum. While we love the transparency, the immediacy, and the social aspects of using Jive SBS, many of us also work in another world: Microsoft Office. Constantly disengaging from one to engage with the other is both annoying and unproductive. But not anymore.
With Jive Connects for Microsoft Office, you don’t have to leave Jive SBS to work in Office, or leave Office to work in Jive SBS. Content is no longer siloed on desktops. And socializing documents inside Jive SBS becomes as simple as clicking “save.”
Groundbreaking extensions of Microsoft Office
The MS Office Connector not only fully integrates the two environments, but also delivers groundbreaking extensions of Office capabilities, including powerful simultaneous co-authoring and automatic file synchronization.
With Jive’s Microsoft Office Connector, you can:
Drive collaboration and transparency
Automatically publish Office content created on a user’s desktop into their Jive SBS activity stream, raising awareness of your colleagues’ activities across the enterprise.
Improve team productivity
Eliminate time-consuming review cycles and multiple rounds of feedback by allowing multiple authors and contributors to make comments and changes on a document simultaneously–from either their desktop or their browsers.
Eliminate confusion
Maintain a single synchronized version of a document to ensure that everyone is working from the same content–even when multiple authors are making edits to the content in parallel.
Speed review processes
Attach a unique URL to all documents when they are saved, which means the document can be accessed simultaneously by multiple users with appropriate access–eliminating the need to integrate the multiple generations of comments spawned by email.
As an additional bonus, the MS Office Connector pairs well with Jive SBS 4.0, which enables users to preview and provide in-line comments to any Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file as well as any PDF without downloading the files.
