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Note: Social task management tool Jive acquired last year becomes free as a standalone app. Integration with the Jive platform to follow.
10 Must-Have WordPress Plugins For Businesses(click image for larger view and for slideshow) Jive Software is launching a revamped, and free, version of Producteev, the social task management tool it acquired in November.
After 11 months of work, Producteev "has been rebuilt from scratch using a lot of scalable technology, so it is really a brand new product," said Ilan Abehassera, founder of Producteev and now a senior director of product management at Jive. "We're trying to change the way work gets done, and we've decided tasks are the best route into the enterprise," he said.
Producteev was originally designed for use by relatively small teams, but the new version makes it possible to break a large organization into smaller networks of employees who collaborate on tasks, Abehassera said. Producteev always had a free version for individuals, which remained free if you introduced a single collaborator (perfect for mom-and-pop businesses) but charged a per-user fee for any organization with more than three users. With Jive's backing, Producteev will now be free for organizations of any size.
Tuesday's announcement of a free standalone version of Producteev came as Jive continues to work on a new task- and project-management module that will be integrated with its enterprise social networking platform. Abehassera said he has been working on that integrated task-management capability in parallel with the retooling of Producteev. While there is already a Producteev app in the Jive Apps Market, it's only a first step, he said.
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Jive currently provides a basic task-management capability as part of its core social software platform, but it's not as slick as some others on the market. Better task management will...