PALO ALTO, Calif., May 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jive Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:JIVE), the industry's largest pure-play social business provider, today launched an innovative 30-day trial that gives millions of users immediate access to Jive's next-generation social business platform, which Jive also introduced today. Try Jive enables teams of any size to work together using Jive for Teams, a new easy-to-use group collaboration solution built on the feature-packed platform. The trial provides a rapid, easy on-ramp to social business and is available now via Jive Cloud, Jive's public cloud service.
"This is an answer to the thousands of Global 10,000 business teams who've requested access to the same high-productivity collaborative tools used by the world's largest and most successful companies," said Tony Zingale, Jive CEO. "With Try Jive and easy deployment, now teams from 25 to 250,000 can instantly take advantage of the industry's most advanced social business platform. We've made it incredibly easy for team leaders to launch their own Jive-powered network, empower stellar teamwork, and achieve breakthrough business results."
Try Jive, a free trial of Jive for Teams, provides a comprehensive set of collaboration tools and capabilities that have made Jive's platform the most widely used social business system in the world. These include tools for communication and sharing, document collaboration, activity streams, mobile device support, and integration with Microsoft Outlook and Office. Jive for Teams also includes the industry-first next-generation features introduced on Jive's new platform, such as Jive Anywhere, Jive !App Experiences, Jive Edge social intelligence and Jive Attention Streams.
Free Try Jive: Immediate Access with Option to Purchase
The free trial is designed so that users can quickly familiarize themselves with Jive's capabilities and get to work immediately solving real business challenges. Elements include:
- Rapid sign-up. Any team member can start a trial by visiting jiveon.com and entering a valid company email address. They can then invite other team members and begin collaborating in their own private, secure Jive-powered network.
- During the 30-day trial, users have full access to all Jive for Teams features such as those described above, without limitations. When the 30-day period ends, companies can purchase Jive for Teams for as little as $12 per user per month and continue using their Jive team network without interruption.
- Throughout the trial, team leaders have complete administrative control. They can also customize the look and feel of their Jive network with Jive's easy-to-use theme builder.
- Any data created during the free trial is safe and secure, regardless of whether they buy Jive or end the trial without purchase. If they choose to end the trial, they can take their data, free of charge.
- There is no limit to the number of users or amount of storage consumed during the trial.
- Jive provides hands-on support throughout the trial, with Jive Success Coaches assisting users for free via live chat, the Jive Community, email, and phone.
- The trial includes integrated tutorials that introduce users to key features and capabilities. The tutorials include instructional videos in which Jive customers from leading companies describe how they use Jive to achieve key business objectives.
"Groupon is one of the fastest growing businesses of all time, which means we have to move and make decisions in realtime," said rock star Andrew Mishalove, Jive community manager at Groupon. "Email just cannot handle our level of virtual teamwork. We tried freemium alternatives and found they were unable to scale and meet the needs of our people. We chose Jive because the platform was powerful, easy to use and gave us quick upgrade cycles, all in the cloud."
"Blue Shield's mission is to ensure that all Californians have access to high-quality health care at an affordable price," said Mark Heller, Director of Internal Communications and Employer Reputation at Blue Shield of California. "Jive is helping Blue Shield to change the way we work and drive a significant culture shift in support of our mission. Jive gives us an inside look at all the work going on around the organization, helping us to identify opportunities to deliver on our strategy, improve employee engagement, and increase collaboration across the company."
To showcase the latest trends and best practices in social business, Jive presents the JiveLive Tour, an eight-city seminar series in May and early June, 2012. To learn more, visit the JiveLive Tour site.
About Jive Software
Jive Software (Nasdaq:JIVE) is a 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. For a free trial of Jive's next-generation social business platform, please visit Try Jive.