Jive Software Oct. 28 released Social Business Suite 4.0, building a bridge to Microsoft Office and prompting Jive CEO Dave Hersh to claim that Jive is essentially turning Microsoft Office into Google Docs. Jive, which like rivals MindTouch, Socialtext, Awareness and IBM believes that the lines between social software and collaboration software have blurred, also lets users view and reply to comments made in the browser directly from the plug-in in Microsoft Office. Jive is also offering modules that let the social software run on Apple’s iPhone and RIM BlackBerry.
– Jive Software Oct. 28 released Social Business Suite 4.0, adding integration
with Microsoft Office that prompted Jive CEO
Dave Hersh to claim the company is turning Office into a Google Docs-like
platform.
SBS 4.0 has several new features, but
eWEEK is focusing on the key areas that make this…