Fairview Health Services Accelerates Strategic Initiatives and Decision-Making with Jive Social Business Software

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Technology alone will not make a business more responsive to its customers or spawn new and creative approaches to business challenges.

Portland, OR (PRWEB) June 16, 2009

Jive, the Social Business Software leader, announced that Fairview Health Services, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in Minnesota, is using Jive SBS to connect its regional network of employees, accelerate growth and improve strategic business decisions.

Fairview Health Services looked to Jive to enable a more responsive, transparent and efficient decision-making process. Today, when Fairview Health Services acts on a new strategic initiative, it turns to its employee social network where participants share research, ideas and plans. By moving important information and projects out of siloed email programs, Jive SBS makes it possible for teams to collaborate in real-time, enabling a free-flow conversation and speeding the time to decision. Fairview Health Services also uses Jive SBS to build and maintain a database of company knowledge. By archiving critical conversations and making them tag-able and searchable, Jive captures valuable employee knowledge, providing a reference point for future projects and discussions, and improving productivity.

"Prior to Jive, the decision process was extremely time consuming and costly for our organization," said Scott Robertson, Director of Marketing Communications Operations at Fairview Health Services. "We spent a tremendous amount of time in meetings, exchanging emails and building consensus. Social Business Software transformed our decision-making process by providing a single environment where cross-functional teams can connect, research, plan and eventually execute their specific business initiatives."

"Technology alone will not make a business more responsive to its customers or spawn new and creative approaches to business challenges." said Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive Software. "Fairview is intelligently leveraging Social Business Software to support its strategic initiatives, creating a responsive and well-informed culture that results in better services for the communities it serves."

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.

About Fairview
Fairview was founded in 1906 by a group of Minneapolis leaders who chose to give care to the underserved Norwegian immigrant community. That first act of compassion and service to community led to Fairview Hospital, a facility that endured the devastating 1918 flu epidemic, the challenges of two world wars and the transformation of hospitals into a modern-day health care system. Today, Fairview is one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in Minnesota, with a continuum of care unparalleled in its breadth. Fairview is redefining the delivery of health care through an integrated health network, providing care from prevention and disease management to treatment of the most complex of life-threatening injuries and illnesses.

About Jive Software
Jive Software is the global leader in Social Business Software. For more information, visit Jive Software online at http://www.jivesoftware.com.

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