Jive Software
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| Public | |
| Traded as | NASDAQ: JIVE |
| Industry | Collaboration software |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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Key people
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Elisa Steele, CEO, President Bryan LeBlanc, CFO |
| Products |
Jive Openfire |
| Revenue |
 US$195.8 Million (2015) |
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Number of employees
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658 (2014) |
| Website | jivesoftware.com |
Jive Software is a provider of communication and collaboration solutions for business, including a suite of collaboration software and an intranet back-end.
Jive is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2001, Jive maintains additional offices in Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Reading, UK; Frankfurt, Germany; São Paulo, Brazil; Tel Aviv, Israel; Melbourne, Australia; Hong Kong; Singapore, Tokyo and Paris.
On May 1st, 2017, Jive announced that it had entered "into Definitive Agreement to Become Part of the Aurea Family of Companies for $462 Million in Cash"
On January 7, 2010, Jive acquired Colorado-based social monitoring company Filtrbox for $1.7 million in cash and common stock.
In May 2011, Jive announced the acquisition of OffiSync, an Israeli startup that adds a collaboration layer to Microsoft Office applications.
In November 2012, Jive announced the acquisition of technology companies Producteev and Meetings.io. Producteev produces a cloud-based task management application with web, desktop, and mobile clients. Meetings.io provides a chat and video conferencing tool. In May 2013, the company announced the newly redesigned version of Producteev by Jive as a stand-alone free app to individuals and teams of any size. Jive released the real-time communication features from Meetings.io over the course of 2013. These features were then broken out into a stand-alone app called Jive Chime.
In May 2013, Jive announced the acquisition of CLARA and StreamOnce and detailed their integration in the Jive Platform. The integration of CLARA's Jive Resonata product brings community analytics to the platform and allows users to measure the reach, sentiment and influence of their work, and use predictive analysis to anticipate customer behavior.
Jive was founded in 2001 in Iowa, but relocated to New York later the same year. In 2004, the company moved its headquarters to Portland, Oregon.
At the end of 2009, Jive posted a record 85% percent increase in revenue in addition to securing $12 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital.
In 2011, Jive filed for a $100 million IPO. The company had its IPO on December 12, 2011, on the NASDAQ stock exchange, raising $161.3 million from investors, around $60 million higher than was planned.
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