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Jive vs SharePoint
March 06, 2025 | Author: Adam Levine
3★
Jive’s enterprise social networking platform allows you to engage employees, customers, and the social web. Increase the efficiency of internal communication, build brand loyalty, and monitor customer chatter and ideas, all from one central location. Say good bye to your intranet, multiple logins for scattered enterprise apps, and being out of the loop; the Jive Engage platform integrates the social networking tools you love and need so you can focus on what matters.
58★
SharePoint's multi-purpose platform allows for managing and provisioning of intranet portals, extranets and websites, document management and file management, collaboration spaces, social networking tools, enterprise search, business intelligence tooling, process/information integration, and third-party developed solutions. SharePoint can also be used as a web application development platform.
Jive and SharePoint, at first glance, appear to be the same thing. Both let people collaborate, share files and generally pretend they’re being productive while actually scrolling through endless updates from Dave in Accounting. They integrate with other tools, they organize things and they promise a more connected workplace—because that’s exactly what employees crave after a long day of meetings: more ways to be connected.
Jive, however, takes a different approach. Born in 2001 in the United States, it decided that what companies truly needed was not just collaboration but engaging collaboration, as if that would somehow make reading HR policy updates thrilling. It built an entire ecosystem of social features, with activity feeds, discussion forums and enough community tools to make even the most reluctant employees feel like influencers in a corporate bubble. It’s the platform for those who believe work should feel like a lively, idea-driven utopia rather than a carefully structured file repository.
SharePoint, on the other hand, was also unleashed upon the world in 2001 but with the undeniable might of Microsoft behind it. Instead of focusing on making work fun, it doubled down on making work work. It became the backbone of intranets, the overlord of document libraries and the silent enforcer of compliance policies no one fully understands. Deeply embedded in Microsoft’s empire, it ensures that if you weren’t already trapped in their ecosystem, you soon would be. If Jive is the fun cousin who makes collaboration feel like a party, SharePoint is the slightly intimidating uncle who insists on filing everything properly—because one day, someone will ask for that Q3 report from 2017 and by golly, they’ll find it.
See also: Top 10 Intranet Portals
Jive, however, takes a different approach. Born in 2001 in the United States, it decided that what companies truly needed was not just collaboration but engaging collaboration, as if that would somehow make reading HR policy updates thrilling. It built an entire ecosystem of social features, with activity feeds, discussion forums and enough community tools to make even the most reluctant employees feel like influencers in a corporate bubble. It’s the platform for those who believe work should feel like a lively, idea-driven utopia rather than a carefully structured file repository.
SharePoint, on the other hand, was also unleashed upon the world in 2001 but with the undeniable might of Microsoft behind it. Instead of focusing on making work fun, it doubled down on making work work. It became the backbone of intranets, the overlord of document libraries and the silent enforcer of compliance policies no one fully understands. Deeply embedded in Microsoft’s empire, it ensures that if you weren’t already trapped in their ecosystem, you soon would be. If Jive is the fun cousin who makes collaboration feel like a party, SharePoint is the slightly intimidating uncle who insists on filing everything properly—because one day, someone will ask for that Q3 report from 2017 and by golly, they’ll find it.
See also: Top 10 Intranet Portals
