London (PRWEB) February 24, 2012
Alfresco, the open platform for social content management, and Jive Software announced the release of the Jive Connector with Alfresco, enabling cross-platform publishing between Alfresco and Jive. With the integration, customers can leverage best of breed social business technology with best of breed enterprise content management (ECM), making enterprise content both social and organized. The Jive Connector is available immediately as an add-on to Alfresco Standard and Enterprise subscriptions here.
The Connector enables cross-platform publishing through a collaboration that delivers enterprise-class repository functionality to Jive content, allowing Alfresco content to behave as native Jive content. Users in both platforms can create documents in Alfresco and publish them in Jive or create in Jive and publish in Alfresco.
Managing and integrating enterprise and social content has long been a difficult task, and most organizations have settled with using separate systems. Now Alfresco and Jive customers can choose to work and share information to both platforms easily and securely. Customers can manage their content and the publishing of their content in Alfresco and easily socialize their content in Jive.
As more businesses require social business capabilities to support their bottom-line growth, the integration of Jive with Alfresco delivers on a major necessity in todays market, said John Powell, CEO of Alfresco. Were excited to be delivering best-in-class enterprise content management combined with Jives industry leading social business technology, giving way to even more robust possibilities in social content management.
Alfresco and Jive originally partnered in March 2011 to bring together best-in-class content management and social business software for overall improved functionality and capabilities for todays businesses.
“Today’s enterprises have established infrastructures for document management, but the new way to business requires the ability to socialize that content, said Matt Tucker, CTO and cofounder of Jive Software. Through this partnership, the Jive Connector with Alfresco enables a true social content management system to make social and enterprise cross-platform publishing a reality.
Benefits and features of the Jive Connector with Alfresco include: