Jive and Carahsoft Partner to Power Web 2.0 Initiatives in Complex Multiagency Environments

RESTON, Va., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software, the Social Business Software leader, today announced that its Social Business Software (SBS) is now available via GSA schedule through a partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a leading government IT solutions provider.
Already in use by numerous federal government agencies including members of the U.S. intelligence community, NASA, the U.S. Army and Air Force Medical Services, Jive SBS helps traditionally siloed organizations overcome challenges associated with teams and initiatives being divided by country, region, bureau or assignment.
Carahsoft is a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder that serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors. Jive is the only social business platform offered by Carahsoft. As part of this partnership, Carahsoft will provide proactive sales and marketing support to drive demand for Jive SBS in the public sector.
Due to the complex and changing organizational structure at many government agencies, information is often difficult to find or inaccessible, resulting in duplication of effort and lost time. In addition, limited peer-to-peer interaction among government personnel across global offices and the inability to track and manage multiple conversations impedes decision making. Government agencies have historically relied on inefficient email or word of mouth to identify experts and locate relevant content in other bureaus. Information is often trapped in siloed systems, charts and presentations, forgotten archives, or retained by the individual, making it nearly impossible to identify, exchange and analyze data quickly and efficiently.
"Social Business Software is rapidly becoming a top imperative across organizations in both the private and public sectors. Increasingly, government organizations are relying on Jive to find and involve the right people in critical initiatives," said Robert Brown, senior vice president of Client Services at Jive Software. "Our partnership with Carahsoft makes it possible for these organizations to better align with President Obama's call for government transparency, participation, collaboration and innovation."
"Jive supports the public sector as it takes a more collaborative approach to service delivery and policy making through the adoption of social media technologies," said Craig P. Abod, Carahsoft president. "We are pleased to welcome Jive as our leading Web 2.0 solution partner, and to add the company's products to our GSA schedule."
Working with organizations including NASA, the U.S. Army, Air Force Medical Services and members of the U.S. intelligence community, Jive is helping to connect the dots - agency to agency, department to department, people to people and system to system. Jive SBS employs the most rigorous security measures in the industry, and is essentially the defacto standard for the intelligence community, with tens of thousands of users.
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive's collaboration software and community software solutions are the first to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
About Carahsoft
Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider, combining technological expertise with a thorough understanding of the government procurement process to help federal, state and local government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value. As a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder, Carahsoft is the largest government partner and serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors. The company's dedicated Solutions Divisions support proactive sales, marketing and delivery of Symantec, Storage Solutions, VMware, Adobe, Open Source, HR, HP Software, Intelligence, and SAP.
Carahsoft is consistently recognized by its partners as a top revenue producer and is listed among the industry's fastest growing firms by VARBusiness, CRN, Inc., Washington Technology, and the Washington Business Journal. In 2009, Carahsoft was listed among the top ten revenue producers on the Inc.500 list of fastest growing privately held companies, and received the VAR Business Top Revenue Generator Award. Visit www.carahsoft.com