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A Look at the Top Workplace Tools by Adoption
Okta's list of the most popular workplace apps by adoption uncovers some surprising trends around what is actually being used in the workplace.
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Will Jive Customers Win With Lithium Takeover?
Lithium Technologies CEO Rob Tarkoff said the company will give newly-acquired Jive customers the option to continue using their Jive-x online community software or move to “something better in a relatively near-term period of time.” Tarkoff was short on specifics in his interview with CMSWire the day after Lithium announced it acquired Jive’s external online community business, bringing
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Lithium Technologies Acquires Jive Software's External Community Business
It didn't take long for ESW Capital to break up Jive Software. ESW Capital announced plans to sell Jive's external community business, Jive-x, to Lithium Technologies just shy of four months after the private equity firm acquired Jive, company officials announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Huddle Reportedly Acquired by Private Equity Firm for $89M
Huddle, an 11-year-old enterprise collaboration software provider, will be acquired by private equity firm Turn/River Capital for $89 million, according to industry reports. That sum is far less than London-based Huddle's reported peak valuation of up to $300M when it snagged a $51 million Series D funding round in 2014. And it marks yet another private equity buyout
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What the Jive Acquisition Means for the Community Industry
On May 1, Jive announced private equity firm ESW Capital had acquired it in a deal valued at $462 million. The buy will move Jive from being a publicly-traded company to a member of the Aurea Software portfolio.
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Will Jive's Acquisition Revive the Company's Fortunes?
Jive CEO Elisa Steele took the stage at the company's JiveWorld conference in Las Vegas today to reassure customers and partners alike following yesterday's announcement of its acquisition by ESW Capital. The message Steele shared was clear: the company faced some tough choices in the past which drove the
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Jive Software Acquired by ESW Capital for $462M
Jive Software kicked off its JiveWorld conference this morning with a surprise announcement: ESW Capital has acquired the enterprise collaboration provider for $462 million in cash. The move confirms what many analysts had predicted for Jive in the last few years: a buyout for a company whose value peaked at
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Microsoft, IBM, Jive, Salesforce Lead Forrester's Enterprise Collaboration Wave
Business collaboration is nothing new. Geeks and computer enthusiasts were sharing and chatting on bulletin board systems in the early 1980s, via Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in the late 1980s, eRoom -type tools in the 1990s and with technologies like Microsoft Sharepoint, Jive Software and Socialcast (now part of VMware)
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The Enterprise Social Network Market Heats Up
When Microsoft rolled out Office 365 Groups in 2015, it once again thrust the future of Yammer into the spotlight. The enterprise social network (ESN) industry at large closely watched the move as other providers, including Jive and Beezy, continued to enhance their platforms. Many of these questions were answered in September with Microsoft's announcement of a
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Jive 'Realignment' Results in Renewed Focus, Layoffs
Jive Software announced a realignment plan Tuesday that will result in layoffs of 14 percent of its employees by the second quarter. The 15-year-old Palo Alto, Calif.-based collaboration software company is cutting back and refocusing its efforts on the enterprise.
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Jive Updates Portfolio, Adds 3 New Targeted Solutions
Social business software has morphed from a headline to a must-have in the past 15 years. Back then, providers like Jive Software and Socialcast (now VMware-owned) made headlines at tech conferences and earned in-depth reports in publications like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Now numerous enterprise solution
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Gartner: 5 Vendors Lead in Workplace Social Software
When end-users hear the term “social software in the workplace” they might envision getting busted for logging into Facebook or Snapchat at work.
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News You Can Use: Rocket Fuel, Jive, More
The latest in customer journey, marketing, acquisitions, integrations, collaboration and surveys from El Dorado State, Gibraltar of the North, Arizona's Urban Heart and the Cleve, the Land of Chocolates and Cuckoo Clocks and the Birthplace of American Liberty. MAPP-ing Marketing Transparency For any company with marketing practices that would make
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