Jive Connects for Microsoft SharePoint 1.0

Jive Connects for Microsoft SharePoint provides tight integration between SharePoint and Jive. It takes SharePoint’s strengths as a content repository with complex workflows and document management and couples it with Jive’s social networking capability, intuitive interface, and high adoption rate.

This section introduces Jive Connects for Microsoft SharePoint, describes initial considerations that should be made when integrating Jive and SharePoint, and directs you to the appropriate documentation for getting up and running with the product.

Enterprises are plumbed with content repositories, complex workflows and document management systems like SharePoint. But enterprises flourish on Social Business Software, which is rapidly transforming how the enterprise operates by emphasizing the value of community, connections and content. Now, with SharePoint Connector, enterprises can unite the power of both Jive and SharePoint to drive business productivity and innovation.

SharePoint’s strengths are in complex workflows, document storage, and records management. But a steep learning curve and social limitations coupled with a technology structure that is not native Web 2.0 constrains both SharePoint adoption and conversations that matter. This is why Jive’s social networking, collaboration capabilities and highly intuitive interface are highly complementary to SharePoint’s content infrastructure.

Unified, these two applications drive awareness of enterprise activities by socializing content, wherever it originates, to inform better business decisions.

Best of Both Worlds

By adding SharePoint Connector, now you can leverage both Jive and Microsoft SharePoint to do what they do best.

Use Jive as your hub for socializing and sharing content broadly across the enterprise—even if the content lives in SharePoint.
Now, when employees post a discussion, author a blog, or collaborate on a document inside Jive, they can easily find and link to SharePoint content—searching and navigating any number of SharePoint sites from their Jive interface.
Preserve SharePoint as your official workflow and document storage system while infusing it with Jive social features.
When employees are working inside SharePoint, they have a direct window and click-through access to people, content, and activities in Jive.

Why You'll Love Making SharePoint Jive

Socialized synergy — The SharePoint Connector seamlessly integrates Jive and SharePoint with unified access, unified search results, unified activity streams, and unified document storage. Bi-directional content push plus corporate governance capabilities further extend the solution.

Unified access — Gives authorized users transparent, click-through access to both applications while exposing Jive in SharePoint, allowing you to move seamlessly between applications.

Unified search results — Delivers search results from both Jive and SharePoint in every search, no matter which application you search from to help you find content immediately.

Unified activity streams — Provides a consolidated view of activities as they happen in both SharePoint and Jive by people you consider important and for projects and initiatives that matter to you, which means that you can act faster and more precisely with full awareness of what’s going on.

Bi-directional content push — Makes it easy to push content in either direction with a one-click push operation that copies a file to a pre-defined location, carrying the specific file metadata with it. Also allows authorized Jive users to push content into SharePoint workflows and to push SharePoint content out into public Jive communities.

Corporate governance — Gives IT and SharePoint administrators a semantically rich business rule language to help them define what, how, and when SharePoint content gets socialized to protect privacy while enabling powerful socialization at a very granular level—from strictly private to completely public.