Jive Connects for Microsoft SharePoint

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 them with Jive’s social networking capability, intuitive interface, and high adoption rate.

This documentation 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. To get started right away, see Getting Started


Many enterprises challenged by large content repositories and complex workflows have turned to document management systems like SharePoint. As Social Business Software increasingly transforms business by uniting community, connections and content, traditional content management systems need to find ways to engage with the social workplace and become truly socially enabled. With Jive for SharePoint, enterprises can unite the power of Jive and SharePoint to drive business productivity and innovation. Jive’s social networking, collaboration capabilities and highly intuitive interface are highly complementary to SharePoint’s content infrastructure. The Connector leverages Sharepoint’s strengths in document storage and records management, while providing true collaborative momentum around content creation and business processes.

Many enterprises challenged by large content repositories and complex workflows have turned to document management systems like SharePoint. As Social Business Software increasingly transforms business by uniting community, connections and content, traditional content management systems need to find ways to engage with the social workplace and become truly socially enabled. With Jive for SharePoint, enterprises can unite the power of Jive and SharePoint to drive business productivity and innovation.

Jive’s social networking, collaboration capabilities and highly intuitive interface are highly complementary to SharePoint’s content infrastructure. The Connector leverages Sharepoint’s strengths in document storage and records management, while providing true collaborative momentum around content creation and business processes.

Best of Both Worlds

By adding Jive for Microsoft SharePoint, 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 — Jive for SharePoint 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.