I need to understand how Sharepoint compares to Jive software. Does anyone know this or where I can find a comparison matrix please?
Thank you.
Thank you Joe. I quite agree, but doing some review of both has been a useful exercise. We are now going to spend some time with the client to understand their pain points with Jive, and establish how Sharepoint would cope.
I use both SharePoint and Jive every day. My impressions (and that’s all they are is my own opinions): Jive is great for quick blog / discussion, and has some security capabilities. SharePoint can provide more granular security and can do workflows and complex data types. Shared editing of Excel / Word / etc can be done with both. Both have excellent search capabilities. SharePoint allows more customization. Jive content is more document-centric as opposed to the varied types of content that SharePoint can manage (row/column of lists, document / text style of discussions /blogs /wikis, custom types).
As with any project really, i would think the starting point is: what are the customer’s requirements?
Is this not one of those times when you’d be asking what is it that the customer is actually looking to achieve and can sharepoint actually do. Might there be a case for using sharepoint alongside jive rather than just doing a straight swap.
There are lots of comparisons out there, but I seriously doubt a company would come back and say we don’t do x but sharepoint does.
Thank you for your reply Dave, much appreciated.
I’m trying to do a product comparison for a client who has Jive and an older version of Sharepoint. There are limitations within Jive so they are looking to upgrade to Sharepoint 2013, but I need to confirm the new version of Sharepoint can do all that Jive can do and more. They’ve requested a comparison matrix from Jive but something tells me they are not going to be very forthcoming if it means doing themselves out of business.
There are a lot of differences between the 2 products, a big one being complexity. It’s probably much easier to make a pretty intranet portal with OOTB jive than with OOTB sharepoint, but its capabilities are much narrower. Even without any customization, sharepoint offers complex permission structures, useful publishing features, and the ability to create multiple site collections. Sharepoint will take a lot longer to figure out, but it will offer a lot more.
