The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Improves External Interaction and Collaboration With Jive

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Improves External
Interaction and Collaboration With Jive

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ --

News
-- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, announced that The
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) is
piloting use of Jive to extend outreach and deepen engagement with
external partners in government agencies, international organisations,
civil society and other institutions with help from Jive Social
Business
Software.
-- OECD, one of the world's largest and most reliable sources of economic
and social analysis and data, provides a forum in which governments
compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify
good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies.
-- OECD relies heavily on consultation and collaboration with external
partners, and has a number of systems to support information/data
sharing and discussion forums. Much interaction however still takes
place via email.

-- Recognizing the need to update its external collaboration portfolio,
OECD performed a review of the latest in collaboration technologies
and
chose Jive Social Business Software. Using Jive, OECD implemented an
external community to support both informal information sharing and
collaboration with its partner groups as well as more formal
discussions.

Jive Commentary
-- "Many of our internal staff and external partners were demanding an
easy
to use, effective tool to aid in the consultation and collaborative
process," said Chris Daniel, Analyst at OECD. "Some users had already
begun experimenting with free software available on the web."
-- "We wanted to provide a space where partners and staff can easily
engage
with one another," mentioned Chris. "Jive allows us to provide both
secure private spaces as well as more open spaces where participants
can
find, discover and interact with one another, and share their
findings,
research and analysis."

-- "In both the private and public arenas, we are seeing a growing demand
for effective collaboration with third parties for research, contract
work or established partnerships," said Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive
Software.
"Jive SBS uniquely supports these activities by providing an intuitive
interface that minimizes the need for formal training and promotes
open
conversations and rapid adoption."

About OECD
The OECD (www.oecd.org) brings together the governments of countries committed
to democracy and the market economy from around the world to:
-- Support sustainable economic growth
-- Boost employment
-- Raise living standards
-- Maintain financial stability
-- Assist other countries' economic development

-- Contribute to growth in world trade

The Organisation provides a setting where governments compare policy
experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and
coordinate domestic and international policies.

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, and community 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.

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Aaron Wessels of Reidy Communications, +1-415-643-8090,
aaronw@reidycommunications.com, for Jive Software