Jive vs. Salesforce Employee Service Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jive
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Jive Software, part of the Aurea family of customer experience solutions, provides the gateway to an organization's most important assets – its knowledge and people. Jive's interactive intranet solution promises to connect people, information and ideas to help businesses outpace their competitors. The vendor says the product has more than 30 million users worldwide across every industry, and is consistently recognized as a leader by top analyst firms.N/A
Salesforce Employee Service Management
Score 8.6 out of 10
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A solution that gives employees self-service so they can take action, get support on any channel, and find resources from one central place. For HR teams, streamline employee support and processes with HR case management.N/A
Pricing
JiveSalesforce Employee Service Management
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 7.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
JiveSalesforce Employee Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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Likelihood to Renew
6.6
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Usability
6.1
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Availability
5.0
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Performance
9.0
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Support Rating
6.9
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Online Training
5.0
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Implementation Rating
3.0
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User Testimonials
JiveSalesforce Employee Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
The content in the news section isn't totally responsive - meaning if I have a small window taking up half my screen, the images for the headline articles may not load properly and when I maximize that window, it's left with ugly half-loaded images. Also, the collaboration feature for Office documents is great in theory but tends to cause more pain than it's worth to just download the document and open it separately in Word or Excel.
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It is good for incident and change management. It can also be used for problem management. Not very useful for auditing as the search functionality has to be improved for that. Quite easy and convenient to use. The ability to export reports also would be great for checking incidents and change trends.
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Pros
  • Jive makes it easy to create new pages for administrators.
  • Jive makes it easy to manage users in one area and simple to navigate administration user interface.
  • Jive is a really good concept, the idea behind jive creates a great main hub in an organizaiton.
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  • Good interface
  • Simple and concise
  • User-friendly
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Cons
  • Search functionality is very weak
  • The information architecture and taxonomy doesnt allow for easy discoverability of content
  • It's hard to navigate the and find spaces/groups that I already know about
  • The main profile/interface does not allow easy access to key tasks or common tasks.
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  • The change requests page could be better
  • The process for the incident lifecycle could be a little simpler
  • Search options could be improved a bit
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Likelihood to Renew
There are always external factors that can impact this decision but currently, the Jive platform is maintaining its lead in the market place in this area. If the innovation in this space by Jive continues, then this number will remain high. Integration with other systems and adaptability to changes in the market or in client needs will also make this decision hard to predict more then 6 months into the future
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Usability
It was very cumbersome to generate reports. Often I had to run several reports and then merge them offline to get what I needed.

Reporting granularity is also lacking
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Reliability and Availability
Uptime was OK. But there was one day that the system crashed for a whole day. Our company was unable to operate. And all the plugins to word/excel froze causing those systems to freeze.

Jive posted a statement to the media saying all customers were up, but we were not.
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Performance
The product worked as designed. It just didn't work for our needs.
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Support Rating
They did an OK job when I needed them. Except for the one day the system went down. Jive pointed the finger at the hosting company, and the hosting company pointed the finger at Jive. No reliable information came to us.
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Online Training
Jive online training is there. It is OK/average. I feel some other companies are doing better. It is not a piece that is required to have a successfully implementation, but it could be useful to improve it
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Implementation Rating
If I did this over, I would hire out the implementation. They know the best practices and could have guided us to make an easier to use setup.
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Alternatives Considered
I honestly don't recall what we briefly used before Jive - it wasn't good and didn't last long. I think it was under-utilized because you couldn't really do a whole lot with it. Jive does pretty much everything we need it to do, so for that reason alone, Jive is the superior tool.
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It is very similar to ServiceNow, but the options are much lighter and hence a bit easier to train employees on how to use it. It also integrates well with Jira, which is quite good. Some of the features are more straightforward, which makes it easier to handle a large volume of incidents.
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Return on Investment
  • Makes us seem bigger than we are.
  • Makes it so the person that manages this part of the business can go on vacation and can pass on these duties to other people when he is gone.
  • Helped us fulfill MSA requirements from our clients to have phone support. Couldn’t have closed some of our deals without it.
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  • Reduces time to resolve incidents
  • Enables to get a good overview of the change
  • Improves employee involvement and productivity
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ScreenShots

Jive Screenshots

Screenshot of Jive's Interactive Intranet software provides a single platform for employee collaboration without complication.