If you depend on your forums, you can depend on Jive Software. Whether your goals are increasing brand loyalty, lowering support calls or creating more efficient knowledge management, Jive Forums will ensure your project is success.

Jive Forums works as a standalone solution or integrated with jive Software's other Enterprise-class applications such as knowledge base and Jive's Software's EIM products: Wildfire, Spark and Spark Fastpath.

Key Enterprise Features

Simple and powerful interface

• Consistent look and feel

• One-click access to commonly used tasks

Expert Search

• Community members can locate other members by searching through basic information

• Complex searches through extended profile fields

Threaded, Flat and Tree Mode

• Messages can be viewed in several different modes

  Flat Mode - chronological order

• Threaded Messages - grouped by subject
• Tree Mode - one message by page with tree structure for other messages

Search

• Integrated Search engine filters information by Date, user Forum and category

Profiles

• Users can manage and publish information about their expertise, interests, including avatars

Web-based Administration Tool

• Delete, edit and move messages

• Manage permission levels

• Organise the hierarchy of categories and forums

Permission-based Security

• Restrict users or groups from readig forums, creating new topics or posting messages

Moderation Support

• Screen and edit messages before thy are posted

Role-based Administration

• Designate multiple users or groups as system administrators, forum administrators, or moderators

Architecture

100% Java application that leverages server-side technologies such as servlets, JSP and JDBC Cluster multiple instances to increase fault tolerance and scalability Customise the entire look and function of Jive Forums through skin technology Jive Forums can use an existing LDAP or external directory for authentication and for storing all user data