Jive Announces Thought-Leadership Gathering

Jive Software (News - Alert) has announced that the company has arranged an exclusive thought-leadership gathering on Wednesday, July 27 in San Francisco. It will be led by CEO Tony Zingale and several other industry executives.

To bring rich functionality to all employees across the enterprise, whether they work in sales, marketing, support, engineering or HR, Jive has partnered with leading cloud applications and system integrators. It includes Box, the leading cloud content management platform that makes it easy to share files with coworkers and external parties alike. With simple, secure sharing capabilities from directly within Jive, employees can manage and access all their business content online and from mobile devices using the Box for Jive app.

“Today, business is happening at the speed of social, and enterprises have to respond to this reality," said Chris Morace, senior vice president of Business Development at Jive. "In order to thrive in the Consumerprise era, enterprises need a purpose-built social apps market that satisfies the desire for consumer simplicity with the compliance and security demands of the enterprise. This is the new way to enterprise apps.”

CrowdFactory and HEDLOC are the two other companies that have become the partners of Jive Software. Enabling companies to run and optimize social marketing campaigns that dramatically increase new customer acquisition, drive loyalty and engagement and amplify brand awareness, CrowdFactory is a pioneer of Social ROI. By leveraging the latest technology and cloud based services, HEDLOC's mission is to close the widening consumer-enterprise gap and propel organizations into the enterprise evolution.

Recently, the company announced the appointment of John Rizzo as Chief Marketing Officer. According to a release, in his new role, Rizzo will lead the marketing team and will be responsible for Jive's overall go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining Jive, Rizzo spent the last several years as President and CEO of Zeebo (News - Alert). At Zeebo he launched a new interactive entertainment, Internet, social networking and education platform.