HiveLive Launches Platform for Building Business-Focused Online Communities; Community Platform Integrates Social Networks with Information Networks t

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) November 5, 2007 -- HiveLive, an enterprise social software platform provider, today announced the launch of the first community platform to seamlessly integrate social networks with information networks. The LiveConnect Community Platform allows businesses to rapidly configure custom-fit enterprise communities built around people, their relationships, and their shared knowledge. The foundation of HiveLive's patent pending technology is a new Web 2.0 building block, called a Hive that combines people, information, and permissions to create flexible information resources. Companies as diverse as an enterprise software provider to a manufacturer of consumer brands are using LiveConnect to engage their customers, employees, and partners.

"In today's highly-competitive environment, businesses cannot underestimate the power of online communities in connecting people in ways that accelerate business performance and agility," said Rachel Happe, research manager, digital business economy at IDC. "By integrating online communities into their day-to-day activity, businesses are empowering and engaging their customers, partners and employees in a whole new way."

Until now, the approach to building communities has been technology centered and based on stitching together multiple point solutions. For these implementations, the range of community activities is limited, and the cost and complexity of customization is high. By taking a building block approach, the LiveConnect Community Platform can cost-effectively deliver communities in a matter of days rather than months and supports advanced audience precision and content richness.

"Our customer community, Agile Commons, has dramatically improved the way we interact with our customers, providing us with up-to-the-minute product feedback, great market intelligence and peer-to-peer support," said Ryan Martens, founder and CTO of Rally Software. "The LiveConnect Community Platform gave us the flexibility to easily customize our community to our specific needs, resulting in more collaboration and activity among our core audience." The Agile Commons community was recently recognized as a Groundswell Award finalist by Forrester Research.

Hives can be easily configured by clicking not coding to support an infinite range of community activities such as communication, collaboration, discussion, media and file sharing, idea voting, and more. With Hives users can choose the people, create the type of information, and define the interaction shifting one-way, controlled messages into two-way collaborative conversations that are inclusive, open, and timely. The result is enterprise communities that foster innovation, creativity, loyalty, and trust.

"The yin and yang of any community is people and information," said John Kembel, co-founder and CEO of HiveLive. "How you tie those two together is extremely important and at HiveLive, we've developed a people-centered platform that fuels organic participation and enables every member to really make the community their own."

The LiveConnect Community Platform better connects businesses to their customers, partners and employees. For customers, it goes beyond traditional customer relationship management tools and provides a way to build brand, trust and engage customers on their own terms. In the partner community, the LiveConnect Platform helps businesses coordinate communications in ways that drive revenue through real-time market intelligence and collaboration. And employee communities benefit from a culture that thrives on collective intelligence to more quickly turn ideas into actions.

About HiveLive:

HiveLive, Inc. is the first to deliver an enterprise social software platform that integrates social networks with information networks for business-focused communities. The company's on-demand, web-based platform is powered by a new Web 2.0 building block called a "Hive," which can be configured to support a nearly infinite range of community activities such as blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, polls, FAQs, and more. The patent-pending technology uniquely enables companies to build communities of depth, and forge tighter bonds with their customers, partners, and employees to foster innovation, creativity, loyalty, and trust. HiveLive is privately held with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, visit hivelive.com.

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