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United Business Media Connects Creative Experts Worldwide With Help from Jive Software
Wednesday 17. December 2008 - Jive Software, the social business software leader, announced today that United Business Media Limited a leading global business media company is using Jive technology to improve productivity and spawn innovation by connecting its employees located around the globe.
UBM currently operates more than a dozen distinct and autonomous business lines, primarily in Europe, Asia and the United States. With a decentralized IT structure across independently run businesses, it was extremely difficult for UBM employees to connect with their peers located in different locations and business units.
“Prior to Jive you either had to have a pre-existing relationship with a person in another business unit or know someone who would be able to connect you with the appropriate expert. With Jive, finding and connecting with your peers around the globe is simple and convenient,” Ted Hopton, Wiki Community Manager, UBM.
UBM is using Jive technology to revolutionize how its employees find, connect and collaborate with each other both within and across its various business units. With Jive, UBM is hoping to change the company’s culture from that of segregated business units to that of open communication and dialogue where expertise is easily located and innovation is promoted and captured.
UBM’s business and IT stakeholders reviewed a variety of solutions prior to making the decision to partner with Jive. UBM chose Jive technology for the following reasons:
— Intuitive user interface minimizing need for end user training and
speeding adoption
— Delivery via Enterprise SAAS eliminating the need for investment in
additional hardware and technical expertise
— The ability to quickly browse organizational experts based on
location, expertise and department.
“We realized very early on that social business software has the ability to fundamentally change the way work gets done in our organization,” said David Michael, EVP Global Technology, UBM. “Jive’s turn-key Enterprise SAAS solution allowed us to focus less on the technology and more on how we can help our employees become more efficient and productive in these tough economic times.”
“United Business Media’s use of social business software is another great example of how leading global companies continue to innovate in a harsh economic climate,” said Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive Software. “Social business software helps UBM tackle its most fundamental business challenges by harnessing the power of its most valuable asset, its people.”
Jive’s flagship products, Clearspace and Clearspace Community, are the industry’s leading enterprise-class social business software applications that combine the latest content creation tools with community-driven intelligence. Jive is the only platform that can support both outward-facing online customer communities and inward-facing employee collaboration solutions effectively and successfully. By presenting Web 2.0 and traditional communication tools in an intuitive and unified way, Clearspace is transforming the way companies work, resulting in better products, faster processes and a more connected workforce.