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Jive vs SharePoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Jive
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
28th
Ranking in Web Content Management
20th
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
6th
Ranking in Enterprise Intranet
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Social Software (8th), Knowledge Management Software (12th)
SharePoint
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
1st
Ranking in Web Content Management
2nd
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
1st
Ranking in Enterprise Intranet
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
167
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of Jive is 1.1%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 11.9%, down from 16.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SharePoint11.9%
Jive1.1%
Other87.0%
Enterprise Content Management
 

Q&A Highlights

it_user499239 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engagement Manager at a tech services company
Aug 26, 2016
 

Featured Reviews

GD
VP - International Business at Amtex S.A.
A flexible solution that improves our administrative efficiency
We use Jive-n for followups on details regarding purchase orders, shipping documents, and other information 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. This solution provides great flexibility of permission…
Ravi Raushan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at ValueMomentum
Centralized document governance has boosted collaboration and made knowledge sharing structured
SharePoint is a powerful platform, but there are a few areas where I think it could be improved, such as user experience. For new users, the interface and navigation can feel quite complex, specifically when working with multiple sites and document libraries. Another improvement would be search functionalities. While it is good sometimes, it does not always return the most relevant result unless a document is very well-structured and tagged. Also, initial setup and customizations can be time-consuming and may require technical expertise, specifically when configuring workflows or permissions. From a modern development perspective, tighter and more seamless integrations with tools including Power Automate and better support for custom backend integrations through APIs could make it more efficient. Overall, simplifying usability and enhancing search and integration capability would make SharePoint even stronger. One additional area I would appreciate improvement would be performance and responsiveness, especially when dealing with a large document library. Sometimes loading or navigating through large datasets can feel quite slow. Another aspect is permissions management. While it is very powerful, it can become complex to manage at scale, specifically when there are multiple levels of access across teams and projects. Improving developer experience would also be beneficial. Making customization, API integrations, and extensions more straightforward would help teams, especially backend developers, leverage SharePoint more efficiently.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Jive came out on top for feature, price, and ability to meet regulatory needs."
"In comparison to other platforms, Jive-n provides the fastest way to integrate new affiliates into your organization."
"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."
"Colleagues are more informed, it is easier to find content, and silo breaking has significantly improved our collaboration."
"Various business groups were able to collaborate effectively using this tool."
"Jive-n offers the best curated experience of the social-based content for enterprises."
"We recently rebranded our organization and used this tool as our primary channel."
"The platform works well to collaborate with creating documents or media for a specific goal."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"The stability of SharePoint is high."
"It helped us manage our documents and records effectively and at a reasonable cost."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"Improved collaboration through multi-user document editing capabilities."
"It is well supported by Microsoft."
"​Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"My advice is to not hesitate; just plunge in and implement SharePoint."
 

Cons

"We had major performance issues when our user base went up."
"The mobile app could be better."
"Jive-n can improve their integration, plugins and democratize their configuration abilities."
"Stream activity could be better organized."
"Create a better way of adding users in bulk by email address."
"Standard Silver technical support is similar to standard support by all vendors, i.e., not quick enough."
"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"A visual navigator would be very useful as many colleagues have an issue to find their way and connect the dots."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"Searching for information appears based on Bing and that is utterly useless."
"The suite is complicated to set up, complicated to maintain, complicated to work with."
"File recovery is not made simple."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"Stability, even after deployment three months ago, still seems to be an issue."
"The stability of SharePoint needs improvement, because once you start to get a large amount of data, it becomes very unwieldy, and it takes a long time to index."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."
"The solution's pricing is relatively expensive because it's bundled with other products."
"The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."
"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."
"It is pretty reasonable. It is $5 per month per user. We have 12 users now, so it is about $60 per month."
"Licensing can be by server or by seat."
"It comes bundled with the Microsoft 365 pricing plans."
"The platform has medium pricing."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
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…
 

Answers from the Community

it_user499239 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engagement Manager at a tech services company
Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016
Jive and SharePoint overlap to at least some extend. What are the issues driving the choice?
2 out of 19 answers
it_user217179 - PeerSpot reviewer
OC 503 STRE (Fuels Infra) (V) at a government
Aug 22, 2016
Jive and SharePoint overlap to at least some extend. What are the issues driving the choice?
Aug 22, 2016
What would be the consulting fee? Best On 8/22/2016 1:21 PM, Ariel Lindenfeld - Community Manager at IT Central
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
25%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
10%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business81
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise83
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?
I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.
What needs improvement with SharePoint?
For me SharePoint is amazing. I have not thought about any feature that could be better because downloads and renaming are all easy. However, there is a feature that could be better. When you are u...
What is your primary use case for SharePoint?
We use SharePoint as our cloud storage for files, folders, and everything else. We have different teams, including the evidence and impact team which I work with, the alumni team, and other teams t...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.
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