Yum! Brands, Juniper Networks and The Value Web Reveal Impact of Social Business Software

PORTLAND, Ore., April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

News

• Jive, the Social Business Software leader, has published several new success stories demonstrating the business impact enterprises have achieved using Jive SBS, including:

• Yum! Brands
  • In less than a year since it launched iCHING, its Jive-powered Social Business Platform, the world's largest restaurant operator is approaching 100 percent adoption.
  • Yum! uses Jive SBS to provide its 6,000 corporate employees a way to break out of functional, departmental, and geographic silos and "work as one" to build strong brands and aggressively drive international expansion.
  • By using Jive SBS to "create a smaller world," Yum! is seeing collaboration and sharing of best practices that would never have happened in the past. As a result, Yum! has achieved clear business benefits that include going to market faster while improving their competitive position.
  • Yum! Brands and Jive: "Driving 24-hour collaboration—and competitive differentiation—around global brands in the restaurant industry" can be downloaded at http://www.jivesoftware.com/files/pdf/casestudy/Case-Study-Yum-Brands.pdf
  • In this archived webcast, Cindy Costa, Senior Marketing Manager, Yum! Know-How & Innovation, shares how Yum! use Jive SBS to promote collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation. The webcast can be viewed at http://resources.jivesoftware.com/content/webcast_reg_yum

• Juniper Networks
  • Juniper Networks uses Jive SBS to help multiple business units learn about – and tap into – the skills, talents, and centers of excellence around the globe. Jive SBS helps Juniper's employees improve situational awareness, which is critical to the company's global alignment goals, while driving productivity through better coordination and access to information.
  • Juniper has embraced Jive SBS at such a significant rate that 82 percent of those using Jive SBS found it to be superior to the legacy systems Juniper had previously used. In addition, as a single collaboration hub for sales, engineering, product marketing, and product development, Jive SBS has significantly reducing Juniper's IT footprint through decommissioning of systems.
  • Juniper Networks and Jive: "Merging corporate cultures and technologies with Social Business Software" can be downloaded at http://www.jivesoftware.com/files/pdf/casestudy/Case-Study-Juniper.pdf.  

• The Value Web
  • The international non-profit uses Jive SBS to help major policy initiative and think tank organizations, including the World Economic Forum and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development.
  • Using Jive SBS, The Value Web helps vastly different organizations address some very common needs: how to enable far flung individuals to participate in ad hoc teams to solve complex, global problems. The transparency of project work on the Jive-powered community is critical to gather resources and, ultimately, execute better as a team.
  • Jive SBS helps these practitioners capture and consolidate project-specific conversations, collaborate across global time and distance barriers, and manage document creation in a transparent, efficient manner. And The Value Web team has had great success using Jive SBS to gain alignment around business objectives—key to their consensus-driven association—and to share new opportunities for their philanthropical projects.
  • The Value Web and Jive: "When consensus is a must, Social Business Software fits the bill" can be downloaded at http://www.jivesoftware.com/files/pdf/casestudy/Case-Study-The-Value-Web.pdf.

Supporting Quote

• "In one of the most challenging economic climates in history, Jive customers saw the potential of Social Business Software to make a meaningful impact – and they went for it," said Ben Kiker, Chief Marketing Officer of Jive. "It's great to share the results Yum!, Juniper Networks and The Value Web are experiencing from SBS. We'll explore further the real-world impact of Jive SBS in our upcoming ten-city Get Social Tour, giving business and IT leaders a clear vision for the potential of social business strategies in their organizations."

About Jive Software

Jive is the largest and fastest growing Social Business Software (SBS) company in the world. SBS creates a material competitive advantage by combining the power of social networking, collaboration software, and community software. For more information, visit http://www.jivesoftware.com.

SOURCE Jive Software