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 When Jive launched Clearspace 1.0 in February of 2007, it was a response to an overwhelming number of enterprise customers saying the same thing: "we're stuck between heavyweight collaboration apps (good for file-based workflows, but no one uses them to collaborate) and lightweight Web 2.0 apps like wikis (good for quick adoption, but incomplete, siloed and don't scale)". They said, "bring all of these formerly disparate technologies into one system, make it enterprise class, and make it so highly-intuitive that anyone could use it." Jive did that. And it was very successful.
So now, a little over a year later, and with hundreds of customers under thier belt, they are learning a lot. The result is Clearspace 2.0 Video demo, screenshots and more . . .
While Clearspace has been very successful as a lightweight way to collaborate and organize content that was historically never captured, there were some consistent issues as thier customers tried to get it deployed inside thier organization: How do I drive adoption? How do I know what to focus on? How should we manage projects? How does it work with my Sharepoint content? How do I involve people outside the firewall? How do we keep track of changes?
Enter Clearspace 2.0
The driving force behind the 2.0 release was to take some of these issues head on. A good way to frame the new features (and existing / future features for that matter) is into the big categories of people, focus and work. Here's what they are launching:
People: Expanded profiles and organizational relationships. Find the right people based on the right information, and see exactly where they sit in the organization (full org chart functionality). Plus you can highlight a name and get a mini-profile. Focus: Personalizable homepage. It's like iGoogle for your work life -- a completely widgitized homepage. No more being overwhelmed by all the content -- now you can provide your own filter to what matters most (what my colleagues are doing, what's popular, my projects, etc.). Work: Projects, sharing and Sharepoint integration. Projects: With very few products out there (in between heavyweight project mgmt apps and a spreadsheet), our customers were hungry for the ability to manage projects and coordinate resources at a high level, with features like milestones and tasks. Sharing: A new cloud-based document sharing service allows you to collaborate with people outside the firewall, even if your software is installed on premise. Your guest user just logs into the service and can start adding content to your local instance. Sharepoint Integration: Integration with Sharepoint 2007 allows you to search, browse and link to Sharepoint content from within Clearspace.
There's also a lot of new features under the hood like recording an audit log of actions performed in the admin console, the switch to the Spring and Struts 2, and improvements to the rich text editor. You can learn more in the new Clearspace section of their site.
Video demo of Clearspace 2.0 features:
Dave Hersh of Jive said he'd been using the release for a while now, and I'm a huge fan (projects and the widgetized homepage have made the biggest difference in my life).
Source:
Jive Software External Links:
Jive Clearspace 2.0: a clear improvement, by Dennis Howlett on Enterprise Alley/ZDNet
Jive Brings Consumer-Style Coolness to the Enterprise, by Marshall Kirkpatrick on ReadWrite Web
Jive Clearspace 2.0 is named "2.0" for a reason, by Rick Turoczy on Silicon Florist
Jive's Clearspace: Using Web 2.0 tools to avoid e-mail in business, by Martin LaMonica on CNET
Jive, Maker of Enterprise Wikis and Blogs, Announces Integration with Sharepoint, by Chris Lynch on CIO.com
Jive adds social network to collaboration software, by Heather Havenstein on Computerworld
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