Jive to Integrate SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM) OnDemand Offerings into Its Social Business Software For Unprecedented Visibility into Community Dynamics

BOSTON, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise 2.0 Conference -- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced an OEM agreement with SAP AG, the business intelligence (BI) market leader, through which it will deliver community analytics that combine the best in Social Business Software together with SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM) BI OnDemand offerings. The announcement was made at Enterprise 2.0 2009, being held in Boston, June 22 - 25.

The global shift toward social business is dramatically changing how companies collaborate internally and engage with customers and partners externally. As a result, social business initiatives are generating new data streams that offer critical competitive advantages. With this agreement, businesses will have unprecedented visibility into the behaviors and content that represents the value of social communities.

Of equal importance, this agreement will leverage SAP's leadership in software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence, resulting in a complete cloud-based analytics and reporting solution for Jive SBS customers. Jive customers will benefit from a quick-to-deploy, secure, stable and flexible analytics offering that also removes the challenges and costs associated with procuring infrastructure and ongoing data management.

With SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand delivered as part of the Jive SBS platform, Jive customers will be able to share, discuss and collaborate around business data more effectively, enabling smarter decision-making by a larger number of business users. Rather than relying on a handful of analysts to produce static charts that end up buried in presentations, Jive customers will gain broad access to highly customizable and interactive reports, along with the unique ability to share, discuss and collaborate around this information.

"Jive and SAP share a vision which is to amplify the value of enterprise data and deliver world-class decision support," said Christopher Morace, senior vice president of products, Jive Software. "SAP combines the most innovative business intelligence products on the market with the security and scalability that our enterprise customers require. By adding a social layer to enterprise reporting, our companies are setting a new threshold for business intelligence."

Highlights of the new offering include:

• Integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand with Jive SBS to provide the most comprehensive community analytics capability on the market
• An on-demand version of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer software, enabling business users to search and navigate data from across their social network.
• Unprecedented ability to share, discuss and collaborate on business data generated by employee and public communities

"SAP is the leader in on-demand BI, and our relationship with Jive will help enable us to deliver collaborative BI to our joint customers," said Mani Gill vice president, SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand Solutions, SAP. "By using BI across a social business system, people can look at information collectively. Ultimately, this will help enable business users across a community to use that information to problem-solve, set strategies and build consensus. This group insight will help customers build more intelligent and efficient business networks."

Jive and SAP will preview the new technology at Enterprise 2.0 in booth # 314.

About Jive

Jive Software is the global leader in Social Business Software. For more information, visit Jive Software online at http://www.jivesoftware.com.

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SOURCE Jive Software