Jive Software Celebrates 5-Year Anniversary With Release of Several New Products

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software, Inc., a leading provider of Java-based Enterprise collaboration and community software, announced today on its 5-year anniversary, beta releases of Jive Forums 5.0 and Jive Knowledge Base 1.7 as well as pre-announced the release of its next Enterprise Instant Messaging Client-Spark 1.1-which will be available for free download on Thursday.

Jive Software's flagship product, Jive Forums, powers some of the largest communities in the world. Its innovative feature set ensures active participation, with customers often seeing a 3 - 8X increase in participation after switching. Features like question workflow, rewards, and routing have led to the subsequent development of tightly linked Knowledge Base and Enterprise Instant Messaging applications-the combination of which provides a system that makes collaboration more efficient and creates knowledge through normal collaboration.

All of Jive Software's open-architecture products are focused on providing external and internal communities with intuitive, smart ways to route questions and knowledge to the right people at the right time. "Our objective," said CEO, Dave Hersh, "is to continue to build practical, open-architecture, collaboration products that lead to massive cost-savings. Forums, IM and Knowledge Bases have been around for a long time -- now companies are figuring out how to really make them work. Our clients are realizing that big collaboration suites can cause more problems than they solve -- but elegant yet powerful tools can really drive change."

Along with the official release of Jive Forums 5.0 and Jive Knowledge Base 1.7 in March will come a new user-based pricing model. "Now any company -- from two employees to twenty-thousand -- can afford to take advantage of our internal, external and real-time collaboration products," said Hersh. "Keep a close eye on us this year. We have a lot more fantastic things coming."

About Jive Software

Jive Software (http://www.jivesoftware.com/) is committed to innovation in flexible, practical, open-architecture collaboration software for use in any enterprise environment. Jive Software's products -- Spark, Wildfire, Jive Forums, and Jive Knowledge Base are designed to connect experts, expose assets, and make real-time and threaded communication between employees and communities more intelligent and transportable. Fully J2EE, customizable and standards-based, Jive Software powers collaboration for over 1,300 customers around the world.

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