Leading Analyst Firm Places Jive in Leaders Quadrant for Social Software in
the Workplace
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ --
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
-- Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace
-- Jive Software Website
(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.
SOURCE Jive Software
Bronwyn Saglimbeni of Reidy Communications, +1-408-414-7250,
bronwyn@reidycommunications.com, for Jive
