What Can Jive-X Users Expect from Lithium Acquisition?

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If you run an intranet, or a customer or partner community, you may have been following the recent M&A activity in the social software space involving Jive Software.

In June, Jive – which offers Jive-n for internal intranets and Jive-X for use in external customer and partner communities — was sold to a private Texas investment firm, Aurea, for $462 million.

Two months later, Aurea flipped Jive-X to Lithium Technologies, a San Francisco-based provider of online community and social media management software. While these deals point to a growing awareness of the size and strength of the enterprise social software market — expected to nearly double to $49.5 billion in 2021, according to Markets and Markets — the Jive-X acquisition by Lithium, one of its main competitors, could have huge implications for those Jive-X and Lithium customers who are wondering what will happen next. Read more to find out…

Vía Team Building http://www.leadernetworks.com/2017/10/can-jive-x-users-expect-lithium-acquisition.html