Make SharePoint Jive

Liberate SharePoint Content to Transform the Enterprise

Enterprises are plumbed with content repositories, complex workflows and document management systems like SharePoint. But enterprises flourish on Social Business Software, which rapidly transforming how the enterprise operates by emphasizing the value of community, connections and content. Now, with SharePoint Connector enterprises can unite the power of both Jive Social Business Software and SharePoint to drive business productivity and innovation.

SharePoint’s strengths are in complex workflows, document storage, and records management. But a steep learning curve and social limitations coupled with a technology structure that’s not native Web 2.0 constrains both SharePoint adoption and conversations that matter. That’s why Jive’s social networking, collaboration capabilities and highly intuitive interface are highly complementary to SharePoint’s content infrastructure.

Unified, these two applications drive awareness of enterprise activities by socializing content, wherever it originates, to inform better business decisions.

Best of Both Worlds

By adding SharePoint Connector, now you can leverage both Jive SBS and Microsoft SharePoint do what they do best.

• Use Jive as your hub for socializing and sharing content broadly across the enterprise—even if the content lives in SharePoint.
• Now, when employees post a discussion, author a blog, or collaborate on a document inside Jive SBS, they can easily find and link to SharePoint content—searching and navigating any number of SharePoint sites from their Jive interface.
• Preserve SharePoint as your official workflow and document storage system while infusing it with Jive SBS social features.
• When employees are working inside SharePoint, they have a direct window and click-through access to people, content, and activities in Jive SBS.

It’s the best of both worlds: enterprise-scale social business software plus enterprise-scale content management and team collaboration functioning as one web-based application. Now you can finally leverage all the people, content, activities, and expertise from both application environments to achieve a profound impact on your business results.

Learn more about the SharePoint Connector in an on-demand webcast by Jive product gurus.

Why You’ll Love Making SharePoint Jive:

Socialized synergy

The SharePoint Connector seamlessly integrates Jive SBS and SharePoint with unified access, unified search results, unified activity streams, and unified document storage. Bi-directional content push plus corporate governance capabilities further extend the solution.

Unified access

Gives authorized users transparent, click-through access to both applications while exposing Jive SBS in SharePoint, allowing you to move seamlessly between applications.

Unified search results

Delivers search results from both Jive SBS and SharePoint in every search, no matter which application you search from to help you find content immediately.

Unified activity streams

Provides a consolidated view of activities as they happen in both SharePoint and Jive SBS by people you consider important and for projects and initiatives that matter to you, which means that you can act faster and more precisely with full awareness of what’s going on.

Unified document storage

Allows administrators to configure Jive SBS to use SharePoint as its default document repository, including uploaded attachments as well as uploaded files, to address your needs for secure, centralized document storage.

Bi-directional content push

Makes it easy to push content in either direction with a one-click push operation that copies a file to a pre-defined location, carrying the specific file metadata with it. Also allows authorized Jive SBS users to push Jive SBS content into SharePoint workflows and to push SharePoint content out into public Jive SBS communities.

Corporate governance

Gives IT and SharePoint administrators a semantically rich business rule language to help them define what, how, and when SharePoint content gets socialized to protect privacy while enabling powerful socialization at a very granular level—from strictly private to completely public.

Learn more about the SharePoint Connector in an on-demand webcast by Jive product gurus.

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