PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jive Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:JIVE) was recently chosen by PGi (NYSE:PGI) as the social business platform to support its internal community – with a goal of enhancing employee collaboration and driving a global corporate culture.
PGi provides virtual meeting solutions to over 35,000 enterprise customers worldwide, including 75% of the Fortune™100. Facing the high cost and inefficiencies of managing three separate intranets in Asia, Europe and North America, PGi had a clear business imperative to drive more efficient internal communications – particularly for its sales and marketing professionals who were looking to share best practices across regions and coordinate global sales opportunities. PGi ultimately selected Jive as its social business platform to unify its internal collaboration in a single, global community.
"Having been a global leader in virtual meetings for 20 years, PGi knows the business value of effective collaboration," said Scott Schemmel, Vice President of Global IT. "Jive helped unify our internal collaboration in a company-wide forum that enables our associates to quickly and easily share their knowledge and experiences across regions and departments, helping us more effectively compete and win in the global market."
Though originally intended as a tool for its sales and marketing teams, PGi's Jive-based community, PGiLife, quickly transformed into a global collaboration tool that connects all of its 1,800 associates worldwide. PGi further enhanced collaboration in PGiLife by integrating its web-based video conferencing solution, iMeet®, to enable employees to escalate their community collaboration into a real-time video meeting.
PGiLife serves as an employee-driven knowledge repository, as well as a place to quickly train and onboard new hires, answer support and sales questions, share success stories, distribute the latest company news and launch new products faster than ever before. Since implementing the Jive-powered community, PGi has seen 100% associate adoption of PGiLife globally, increasing connectivity and productivity across the company. PGi reports measurable results including:
- Accelerated sales training cycle, reducing new hire onboarding by one week
- Twenty percent savings in sales support hours
- Reduced time to market for new products from two months to two weeks
- Ninety percent savings on internal corporate communications costs
"PGi is a prime example of today's visionary companies re-inventing the way they do business," said John F. Rizzo, Chief Marketing Officer for Jive Software. "What started as departmental implementation of social has blossomed into a groundbreaking initiative across the entire company that has led to measurable business value that meets PGi's Critical Business Initiatives. PGi demonstrates that social is not just the new way to do business, but the only way."
More information about PGi's story with Jive can be found online at: http://www.jivesoftware.com/customers/case-studies/pgi
About Premiere Global Services, Inc. | PGi
PGi has been a global leader in virtual meetings for 20 years. Our cloud-based solutions deliver mutli-point, cross-platform, real-time virtual collaboration using video, voice and file sharing technologies. PGi solutions are available via desktops, tablets or mobile devices, helping businesses worldwide be more productive, mobile and green. PGi has a global presence in 25 countries and an established base of more than 35,000 enterprise customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100™. In the last five years, we have hosted more than 725 million people from 137 countries in over 65 million meetings. For more information, visit us at http://www.pgi.com.
About Jive Software:
Jive Software (Nasdaq:JIVE) is the leading global Social Business company. We bring social technology innovations from the consumer world into enterprises securely and at scale, changing the way work gets done. Our platform combines the power of big data, enterprise integrations and social collaboration technologies. Millions of people at the world's largest companies are using Jive-powered communities internally and externally to transform their businesses.