[November 17, 2009] Jive Stakes Larger Bay Area Presence With New Palo Alto Office Tweet PORTLAND, Ore. and PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov 17, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Company News -- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced the opening of its new Bay Area office at 735 Emerson Street in Palo Alto. The move reflects Jive's dramatic growth and increasing focus in the Bay Area at a time when the company is experiencing the greatest momentum in its history. -- Jive moved to this larger office space after outgrowing its previous Palo Alto space in just four months. While the first Bay Area employee joined on June 1, 2009, Jive anticipates that 15-20% of its staff will be based in Palo Alto by the end of 2009. In addition, several Jive executives, including CEO Dave Hersh, now work from the Palo Alto office. -- Jive is currently hiring aggressively in the Bay Area, with several open positions in engineering, product management, professional services and marketing. -- The move comes at a time when Jive continues to achieve record growth -- with Q3 of 2009 growing more than 100% as compared to Q3 of 2008 - and follows news of the company's largest-ever product launch, receiving $12M in Series B funding from Sequoia, and being positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's " Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace." -- Jive is celebrating the new office by holding an Open House for customers, prospects, prospective employees, partners, press and analysts on Thursday, November 19, from 4pm-7pm at 735 Emerson Street in Palo Alto. Hors d'oeuvres will be served along with an open bar. RSVP at [email protected]. Commentary -- "We have a goal to make Jive a fixture in the Bay Area technology scene, and we are searching for top-notch talent here who thrive on innovation and will help us meet our aggressive growth goals," said Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive. "Expanding our presence in the Silicon Valley is incredibly important given how many customers we have here, the deep talent pool, and all of our current and potential partners that help drive the Social Business Software market." Additional Resources -- Jive Software Website 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 combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views. SOURCE Jive Software http://www.jivesoftware.com [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]