Jive Manufacturing Reviews & Insights

Score8.7 out of 10

95 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Jive are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Versatile and Seamless Communication: Several users have praised Jive for its versatility in enabling seamless communication and enhancing collaboration within the organization. They appreciate the ability to connect with anyone in the organization, publish work for feedback and collaboration, and efficiently communicate with colleagues. This feature fosters a connected and productive work environment.

Customizable Information Organization: Many reviewers find Jive's ability to configure multiple information tapes with different themes valuable. This customizable feature allows users to organize information based on their specific needs and preferences, enhancing productivity by ensuring easy accessibility and organization of relevant information.

User-Friendly Onboarding Experience: A number of users highlight Jive's prepared block for beginners as helpful in getting new network users acquainted with the platform through game tasks. This user-friendly onboarding experience helps new users quickly adapt to the platform, promoting a smooth transition and effective utilization of Jive from the start.

Jive Reviews

3 Reviews

ManufacturingAutomotive1Chemicals1Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing1

Jive as a collaboration tool in a world wide company

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 28, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jive is used across the company worldwide. Many different communities are created, of different sizes. For me, Jive brings added value on top of file sharing, allowing you to collaborate on documents, comment, ask questions, etc. All of this accelerates the process to create a document, and produces higher quality content while receiving feedback from people in the community. It also allows you to get help from the hidden network. Integration with Microsoft Office is very good, especially using the Jive plugin for Office.

Pros

Office integration
Data hierarchy is simple, so easy to understand
Same principles apply to anything (people, groups, projects, documents)
Document Version management

Cons

Quite flat hierarchy of data (group, project, document) will confuse people used to manage multi level folders structure
Performance sometimes
Notifications schema is a bit difficult to setup for the user, between too much or not enough notifications (always a tricky topic any way)

Likelihood to Recommend

If the need is simply file sharing, then it is not the right application (too complex). If file sharing is the foundation of your collaboration scenarios, then it is a very good application.

Verified User

Manager in Product Management (Automotive company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Jive Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 4, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jive for collaboration pages and to serve as an intranet of sorts - an internal knowledge base.

Pros

Tagging and labeling are flexible and useful for searches.
Document editing is flexible and supports most of the options that you would expect.
Page configuration and display options also allow for some customization of "look and feel."

Cons

Search results don't always produce timely topics.
I find that Jive lacks a modern aesthetic but your mileage may vary.
Copy / paste of bullet point content from MSWord is not effective, and this can be frustrating when transferring content.

Likelihood to Recommend

Jive is a fairly effective tool to use for an internal knowledge base and repository of employee-curated content. Group-level permissions are helpful to segment content across large teams. I would not recommend Jive as a blogging platform.

Jason Lanier

Principal Product Manager in Marketing at National Instruments (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Jive review from a multinational chemical company

Rating: 8 out of 10

February 7, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jive is being used across almost all the organization (Rhodia legacy). Only IT is using it on the Solvay side.
There are a few social groups that are doing an excellent job in Jive : very active, lot of value for the users and the organization. Those groups come from different business units. The level of utilization of Jive varies a lot from a one business unit to another.

Pros

Improve Collaboration : It really depends on people, but when a team is motivated, Jive provides everything they need to work more efficiently.
Jive is a good place to share documents, ideas, projects issues, etc.
User experience, Jive's ergonomy is a strength. It is pretty intuitive.
Jive search engine is powerful

Cons

Working on a document with other people: It is cumbersome to download the file from Jive, make changes into Excel, re-upload the document. It would be awesome if Jive could have the same technology as Google docs and allow a team to work on a document at the same time.

Likelihood to Recommend

It always depends on the needs of the users. Make your users tell you about their issues, their needs and you will understand if implementing jive is worth it. Jive is good when people don't see each other every day if they live in different countries, it is good for cross functional teams, it is good for international project, project shared by different teams. Jive can be also useful for simple project, it can help really any kind of project or teams. At the end it depends on the people and leadership. Make sure you have a strong commitment from the top managers before pushing anything.

Maxime Guglielmetti

Business Intelligence coordinator & CRM expert in Information Technology at Solvay (Chemicals, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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