Lufthansa selects jive software to power its collaboration initiative

Lufthansa conducted significant due diligence prior to selecting Jive for its new initiative. Lufthansa researched a variety of software vendors matching its business requirements with product functionality and fit within Lufthansa's IT architecture. Additionally, the company ran pilot programs over a four month time period. When the pilot was complete, the pilot participants resoundingly chose Jive for its usability and complete set of functionality. After months of research, Lufthansa selected Jive for its user experience and open platform that easily integrated with Lufthansa's existing IT infrastructure and applications.

The new eTeaming community helps address many of the current challenges Lufthansa employees face in an increasingly communications-dependent business environment. With eTeaming, business users can quickly start open or private discussions, create closed workgroups and stay connected with other employees' activities regardless of the hierarchal or geographical location within the organization. The result is an open environment where business users openly share ideas and innovation is encouraged.

"Currently, a tremendous amount of information and thus, knowledge, is stored on individual's desktops, network shares or in their email inboxes," said Klaus Lukas, Director Enterprise Portal, Deutsche Lufthansa AG. "We hope to break up these silos of information making it extremely simple for people to share and find the information they need and use in their everyday work."

"eTeaming is a great example of how a large organization is promoting communication and innovation within its organization to battle the current challenges within the market," said Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive Software. "It's exciting to see a leading global enterprise such as Lufthansa adopt social networking and collaboration technologies to engage, motivate and increase the productivity of its workforce."

Jive SBS is the industry's only suite of social business applications purpose-built for Global 2000 enterprises. Jive's solutions go beyond collaboration software, allowing people both inside and outside of the enterprise to connect, communicate and collaborate like never before, reducing the cost, time and risk required to produce business results.

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