Jive (formerly known as Clearspace, then Jive SBS, then Jive Engage) is a commercial
Java EE-based
Enterprise 2.0 collaboration and
knowledge management
Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach to achieve organisational objectives by making ...
tool produced by
Jive Software
Jive Software, an Aurea Software company, is a provider of communication and collaboration software for business.
Jive was headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2001, Jive maintains additional offices in Portland, OR; San Francisco, ...
. It was first released as "Clearspace" in 2006, then renamed SBS (for "Social Business Software") in March 2009, then renamed "Jive Engage" in 2011, and renamed simply to "Jive" in 2012.
Jive integrates the functionality of
online communities
An online community, also called an internet community or web community, is a community whose members interact with each other primarily via the Internet. Members of the community usually share common interests. For many, online communities may fe ...
,
microblogging,
social networking,
discussion forums,
blogs
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in Reverse ...
,
wikis
A wiki ( ) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project, and could be either open to the pub ...
, and
IM under one unified user interface. Content placed into any of the systems (blog, wiki, documentation, etc.) can be found through a common search interface. Other features include
RSS
RSS ( RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many di ...
capability,
email
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic ( digital) version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" mean ...
integration, a reputation and reward system for participation, personal user profiles,
JAX-WS web service interoperability, and integration with the
Spring Framework.
The product is a pure-Java server-side web application and will run on any platform where Java (
JDK 1.5 or higher) is installed. It does not require a dedicated server - users have reported successful deployment in both shared environments and multiple machine clusters.
As of Jive 8, released March 30, 2015, there is a Jive-n version which is for internal use (hosted by the consumer or hosted by Jive
as a service) and a Jive-x version which is an external version hosted as a service. Jive no longer supports
wiki markup
A wiki ( ) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project, and could be either open to the p ...
language.
Server requirements for Jive 8-n
The following are the server requirements for Jive 8-n
* Operating systems:
RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial open-source Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, ARM64, and IBM Z and a desktop vers ...
version 6 or 7 for x86_64,
CentOS version 6 or 7 for x86_64 or
SuSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES) 11 and 12 for x86_64
* Application Servers: Jive ships with its own embedded Apache HTTPD and Tomcat servers as part of the install package. It is not possible to deploy the application onto other appservers.
* Databases:
**
MySQL
MySQL () is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database ...
(5.1, 5.5, 5.6)
**
Oracle
An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination.
Description
The wor ...
(11gR2, 12c)
**
Postgres (9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 - 9.2 or higher recommended)
**
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which ...
(2008R2, 2012, 2014)
* Environment:
** Jive recommends a server with at least 4GB of RAM and a dual-core 2 GHz processor with x86_64 architecture
[
** The product integrates with an LDAP repository or Active Directory
** For optimal deployment with a large community Jive Software recommends:
*** using dedicated cache and document-conversion servers
*** hosting the application and database servers separately
]
Releases
* Jive 8, released on March 30, 2015
* Jive 7, released in October 2013[
]
* Jive 9.0.x, released in November 2016
* Jive 9, released in November 2016, supported now
See also
* Comparison of wiki software
* List of wiki software
* Collaborative software
References
Infoworld
PCMagazine
External links
Jive homepage
Blog software
Content management systems
Groupware
Internet forum software
Proprietary wiki software
Web applications
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