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"HootSuite has an AI engine to suggest trending topics related to our business. The engine works really well and comes up with excellent suggestions for more posts.""The main improvement HootSuite offers is allowing my organization to run social media campaigns.""It has a social media presence outside of the hours people are able to devote to an organization."

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"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."

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"Last I checked, you can't schedule Twitter threads where each tweet is a reply to a previous tweet.""The company should reduce the pricing to make it easier for companies to deploy to larger social teams."

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"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."

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    At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a round-up of a couple of the more well known platforms and compare their products to Drupal. In this roundup we will be comparing Jive, Sharepoint and Drupal Commons. Drupal Commons is a popular distribution created by Acquia to compete with some of these other proprietary platforms. There are many other options out there, commercial and otherwise, to compare with Drupal but I want to focus on Jive and Sharepoint for a couple of reasons. I chose Jive because it is one of the leading competitors in this space in respect to market share. Next, I chose Sharepoint because I have some history with Sharepoint. This experience dates back to when I built www.adhe.edu with Sharepoint 2007 a few years ago. I subsequently wrote this blog entry about my experience shortly after joining Mediacurrent. This roundup will also act as a refresher for those who read my original “Drupal vs. Sharepoint” blog. Yammer, which was recently bought by Microsoft and is the tool we currently use for office communication will also get some mentions throughout this article. As I went through and tested each of these tools I used three main criteria in my evaluation Cost Ability to Customize Overall features… Read more →
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    Top Answer:HootSuite has an AI engine to suggest trending topics related to our business. The engine works really well and comes up with excellent suggestions for more posts.
    Top Answer:The key features of the product are available just in the enterprise versions. In the normal paid versions, competitive benchmarking is limited to two competitors. Team and Productivity ratings also… more »
    Top Answer:We use HootSuite to manage our social media, including regular posts, advertising campaigns, and responding to messages. The product allows the users to add all the social accounts on a company on one… more »
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    3rd
    out of 34 in Social CRM
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    330
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    10.0
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    72
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    Also Known As
    Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
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    Overview

    Hootsuite is a social media management platform that allows organizations to efficiently manage and analyze their social media presence. Its primary use case is to streamline social media marketing efforts by providing a centralized dashboard for scheduling, publishing, and monitoring content across multiple social media platforms.

    The most valuable functionality of Hootsuite is its ability to schedule and publish posts in advance, saving time and effort for organizations. With its intuitive interface, users can easily create and schedule content for various social media channels, ensuring consistent and timely messaging. Additionally, Hootsuite's content calendar provides a comprehensive overview of scheduled posts, allowing users to plan and organize their social media strategy effectively.

    Hootsuite also offers powerful monitoring and analytics features, enabling organizations to track and measure the impact of their social media efforts. Users can monitor mentions, comments, and messages across different platforms, allowing for quick and efficient engagement with their audience. The analytics dashboard provides valuable insights into key metrics such as reach, engagement, and audience demographics, helping organizations make data-driven decisions to optimize their social media strategy.

    Hootsuite helps organizations streamline their social media management, saving time and resources. By providing a centralized platform for scheduling, publishing, and monitoring content, it ensures consistent messaging and efficient engagement with the audience. The robust analytics capabilities further enable organizations to measure the effectiveness of their social media efforts and make informed decisions to drive better results. Hootsuite is a social relationship platform for businesses and organizations to collaboratively execute campaigns across social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ Pages from one secure, web-based dashboard. Advanced functionality includes tools for audience engagement, team collaboration, account security, and comprehensive analytics for end-to-end measurement and reporting.

    The workplace has changed. It has become more mobile, and has become a place where communication and collaboration across all spheres of the business is key to success. This is where Jive comes in with its cutting-edge mobile portal, its enterprise social network, and its integrative platform that is compatible with current infrastructure and modern cloud applications.

    As a portal, Jive brings colleagues, content, and current news straight to your desktop or mobile device at the touch of your fingertips. The enterprise social software aspect of Jive connects business colleagues as never-before across geographical locations and throughout the organizational structure. The Jive platform is completely flexible and integrative, and will seamlessly integrate with current systems such as SharePoint and CRM tools, as well as cloud apps like Google Drive and Okta

    Sample Customers
    Vega, TicketLeap, Radio Italia, The PureMatter Agency, Kiva, The Vancouver Canucks
    Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Healthcare Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Government9%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise72%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise63%

    HootSuite is ranked 3rd in Social CRM with 5 reviews while Jive is ranked 31st in Enterprise Content Management. HootSuite is rated 8.8, while Jive is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HootSuite writes "Good customization and social media management with helpful AI capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jive writes "Used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments". HootSuite is most compared with Sprinklr, Brandwatch and Sprout Social, whereas Jive is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Yammer and Microsoft Teams.

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