Jive Software has the lead here through integrations with dozens of other applications and products.
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Broadvision (BVSN), Jive Software (JIVE) and Novell (a private company) were other named defendants in the suit.
At the same time its free Drupal Commons product competes with collaboration companies like Jive Software or Telligent.
The fast-growing social media segment is also being targeted by Polycom, with its partnership recently with Jive Software.
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Upstarts Yammer and Jive Software are selling similar social networking tools for businesses.
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Relationships are becoming more apparent think external business relationship sites like LinkedIn or Ushi.cn, or within your organization with Jive Software, SocialText, or IBM Lotus Connections.
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Polycom has made several high-profile acquistions and partnerships, including recent agreements with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Microsoft (MSFT), International Business Machines (IBM), and Jive Software.
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Jive Software, IBM Connections, Yammer and other social business suites offer APIs and frameworks for embedding its functionality or putting a collaborative chrome around other applications.
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In the biggest deal, No. 46 Yammer, a maker of business social-networking software and a competitor of Jive Software, agreed in June to be acquired by Microsoft Corp.
Lawrence, who was CMO at Jive Software, believes that by focusing on the pitch before the sales person even has a relationship with a customer, he can build a end-to-end sales solution for a wide range of small and large companies.
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The enterprise collaboration space is busy with companies including Jive, Yammer and Moxie Software, as well as IBM and Microsoft.
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That's why following Smith into the hearing are a cluster of six technology firms to defend the documentation as "useful and helpful" in creating software that can jive with Microsoft's products.
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