Jive Awards Customers at JiveWorld09

October 29, 2009 12:00 AM EDT

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Company News

    --  Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced its first
        Annual Jive Social Business Software (SBS) Awards at JiveWorld09.  Six
        customers: United Business Media (UBM), NIKE Inc., National Journal
        Group, CSC, Kaiser Permanente, and Swiss Re were awarded for their
        outstanding achievements exemplifying the business outcomes that Social
        Business Software can generate.  The award categories included Business
        Impact, Community Innovation, Community Adoption, User Experience and
        the Social Business Software Champion Award.
    --  Business Impact - UBM was selected for its community deployment of Jive
        SBS, and its role in the strategic vision of the company.  UBM's wiki
        platform has the support and attention of the company's senior
        leadership.  Within the first year of deploying the UBM wiki, its
        community has grown to over 5,000 users, working in 35 countries.  UBM's
        wiki users have created around 25,000 pages and generated around 3
        million page views - delivering significant efficiencies, cost
        reductions and revenue increases to the organization.
    --  User Experience - NIKE Inc. was selected for its innovative use of Jive
        to better connect its global network of marketers with the digital
        assets they need to drive the brand forward.  Although NIKE has a
        sophisticated Content Management System (CMS) in place, it was difficult
        to navigate for marketers who weren't yet trained on the CMS
        application.  By using Jive as a social layer above the CMS, NIKE
        marketers around the world can quickly access and share approved media
        assets in a single location.
    --  Community Innovation - National Journal Group, the leading source of
        nonpartisan reporting on the current political environment and emerging
        policy trends, was selected for its ground breaking "3121" platform,
        powered by Jive.  3121 - which combines a dynamic directory,
        collaboration tools and customizable news feeds - is the first
        professional networking tool designed exclusively for members of
        Congress and their staff.
    --  Community Adoption - CSC, a global leader in providing
        technology-enabled solutions and services, was selected for the launch 
        of its internal community "C3: Connect. Communicate. Collaborate." 
        Through the  tenacity, credibility and trustworthiness of those
        involved, the CSC team  secured a phenomenal level of executive
        endorsement from the onset and  established a clear linkage between its
        "enterprise 2.0" initiatives to the company's core business strategic
        objectives. Through enabling a strong global advocate network and
        allowing collaboration patterns to emerge, C3 enjoyed viral success in
        only 20 weeks, achieving 25,000 registered users, over 2000 new groups
        and generating over 1 million page views a month.
    --  Social Business Software Champion(s) - Two winners were selected in this
        category: Kaiser Permanente and Swiss Re.
        --  Kaiser Permanente's IdeaBook, powered by Jive, is an internal online
            community aimed at capitalizing on the strength of its 165,000
            employees and 14,000 physicians by facilitating knowledge sharing
            and increasing collaboration and productivity. IdeaBook's rising
            adoption among employees -- it's adding more than 2,000 users per
            month -- has been made possible by the efforts of a dedicated and
            thoughtful communication and technology planning team, key leader
            participation and advocacy efforts such as real life case studies
            and user anecdotes.

        --  Swiss Re operates in more than 20 countries and provides its
            expertise and services as a reinsurer for property and casualty as
            well as life and health business. Traditional reinsurance products
            are complemented by insurance-based corporate finance solutions. 
            Swiss Re took a community centric approach to collaboration and
            provided a business platform for virtual teams, expert networks,
            projects, learning groups and other communities. More than 10,000
            employees got access to the tool and within two weeks after the
            launch, more than 130 new groups were created.

Commentary

    --  David Levin, United Business Media Limited, Chief Executive Officer
        said, "The social media movement is important to UBM and to many of our
        customers. UBM runs the Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 events that showcase
        the transformative power of social media. Social media technology is
        also at the heart of how UBM's business operates. We are fusing social
        media with most of our live events as well as building virtual
        environments and communities on social media platforms. Internally the
        UBM wiki is now a key resource that helps more than 5,000 of our people,
        working in our 15 businesses in more than 30 countries: 'Connect,
        Communicate and Collaborate' is the tagline we have adopted for the UBM
        wiki."

    --  "We continue to be inspired by the work our customers are doing," said
        Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software.  "Their creativity, enthusiasm and
        partnership is the cornerstone of our success as a company."

Additional Resources

    --  JiveWorld09 Awards

    --  Jive Software Website

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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