Jive (formerly known as Clearspace, then Jive SBS, then Jive Engage) is a commercial

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-based

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collaboration and

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the set of procedures for producing, disseminating, utilizing, and overseeing an organization's knowledge and data. It alludes to a multidisciplinary strategy that maximizes knowledge utilization to accomplish organ ...

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, C ...

. 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 engage in computer-mediated communication primarily via the Internet. Members of the community usually share common interests. For many, on ...

microblogging Microblogging is a form of blogging using short posts without titles known as microposts or status updates. Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links", which may be the ...

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, discussion forums,

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wikis A wiki ( ) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or l ...

, 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

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capability,

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integration, a reputation and reward system for participation, personal user profiles, JAX-WS

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interoperability, and integration with the

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. 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

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) and a Jive-x version which is an external version hosted as a service. Jive no longer supports

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language.

Server requirements for Jive 8-n

The following are the server requirements for Jive 8-n * Operating systems:

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version 6 or 7 for x86_64,

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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: **

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(5.1, 5.5, 5.6) **

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(11gR2, 12c) **

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(9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 - 9.2 or higher recommended) **

Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server is a proprietary relational database management system developed by Microsoft using Structured Query Language (SQL, often pronounced "sequel"). As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of ...

(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

References

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External links

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Server requirements for Jive 8-n

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