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Unleash the power of your online communities with Jama and Jive to innovate faster.

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Jama Software announces the Jama Connector for Jive SBS, a seamless integration between two leading enterprise Web applications used by global organizations to automate the innovation process and take action on great ideas.

Portland, OR (PRWEB) February 17, 2010 — Jama Software, the leading provider of Web-based requirements management software used for managing product innovation, announces the availability of the Jama Connector for Jive SBS.

Jama Connector for Jive SBS

An integrated platform for social product development.

Jama Contour and Jive SBS are complimentary solutions used together to manage the innovation process more effectively, creating a powerful, integrated platform for social product development.

With this unique integration, organizations using Jive SBS for their public and employee communities can now seamlessly push ideas discussed in their communities directly into Jama Contour. Then, they can use Contour to execute on the ideas and manage them through the full product planning and development lifecycle.

“This integration with Jama provides Jive SBS customers more options to capitalize on the ideas being discussed within their Jive communities,” said Ben Kiker, CMO of Jive Software, “By bringing ideation and execution together, companies can ensure the end products they build satisfy the needs of their customers.”

Automate the process. Never lose a great idea again.

Product teams can waste hundreds of hours trying to gather ideas and communicate product plans manually using static documents and email. It’s a nightmare. As more organizations implement social strategies that encourage their customers, partners and employees to participate in the product development process, this “death by documents” problem only magnifies. With the integration of Jive and Jama, organizations can now automate the innovation process and ensure they never lose great ideas. In addition, using Contour, they can capitalize immediately on the specific product features and enhancements their customers want most, ensuring the end products they build deliver real value to their customers.

An idea is worth $0 until you take action. This integrated solution provides a better way to convert great ideas into great products.

Taking open innovation from concept to reality.

“The concept of giving customers a greater voice in the innovation process has been a desirable strategy for years,” said Eric Winquist, co-founder and CEO of Jama Software, “However, historically it was a very manual and document-centric process to implement successfully. The joint solution of Jive + Jama makes the concept of open innovation a reality and automates the data flow within the process, providing greater visibility, control and collaboration for global organizations.”

Key benefits of the integrated solution of Jama Contour and Jive SBS:
- Capture the voice of customers
- Never lose a great idea again
- Automate the innovation process
- Turn ideas into action
- Deliver the right products faster
- Build customer loyalty

Learn more: http://www.jamasoftware.com/jive

Availability
The Jama Connector for Jive SBS is available immediately as an integration add-on to Jama Contour. It is sold as a separate enterprise license with unlimited users and projects, and includes support and maintenance. The Connector requires Jive SBS 4.0 or higher and is compatible with the latest version of Contour 2.9 and higher. A free, full functioning trial of Contour 2.9 along with the Jama Connector for Jive SBS is available upon request:

About Jama Software
At Jama, our mission is to help companies build great products. We’re collaborating with innovative companies across industries, from agile startups to the world’s largest organizations to design new ways to smash information silos, speed innovation and build high quality products. Jama Contour, the leading Web-based solution for social product development and requirements management, is now trusted by thousands of users worldwide managing billions in R&D projects. For more information, Contour videos, Jama customer stories and a free trial, visit http://www.jamasoftware.com

About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.

Media Contact:
John Simpson
Director of Customer Outreach & Marketing
Jama Software
(503) 740-8591
jsimpson (at) jamasoftware.com

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Let’s help Haiti recover – an inspiring story from local friends and their son.

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

We normally focus this blog on the business of product innovation and requirements management, but at certain times when the world stops because tragedy strikes, as in the recent earthquake in Haiti, it’s important we do what we can to help.

A close friend and legal advisor to Jama, Bill Pierznik and his wife, have an adopted son from Haiti, and they are co-founders of the Mangrove Fund that provides 100% of its funds to aiding organizations on the ground within Haiti.  In the wake of the recent earthquake, they are focused on helping an orphanage in Port-au-Prince that collapsed.  As an inspiring story, their son Richelor, who is only 4, recently started a coin drive at his school to do his part.  Here’s the front-page story in the Oregonian.  They hope to raise $100,000 through the Mangrove Fund.

We’re humbled and in awe of the generosity and effort that others are providing and are proud to donate what we can.  We know times are tough economically for many, but we encourage everyone to help with what they can.  Every little bit counts.

To donate, go to: http://www.mangrovefund.org
Thanks!

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Dropping Google ads for Kiva loans – will it work?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Where should we invest our marketing budget to create awareness and generate leads for our product in the most cost-effective way? It’s a question we deal with every day as a growing business.

Sponsored events, email lists, online ads, paid search – early on, we invested in these standard channels, following the same marketing playbook as most vendors. No surprise, the bulk of our spend was going to Google Adwords, as high as 80% of our monthly spend.

Over time though, the costs increased as companies in our space competed over the top spots. This is great for Google, but it was crushing our performance metrics. Despite ongoing optimization efforts, the average cost-per-click and cost-per-lead metrics grew to be 2-3x our target range. We were investing a lot of money and questioning the real value it delivered back to our business.

We decided to do the unthinkable - we went cold turkey and deactivated our Google Adwords campaign – turning it off completely. Can you really drop Google ads and survive as a business – is that even legal?

We can laugh, but there’s this sense of obligation that as a business, you have to throw money into Google’s deep coffers, like it’s an online tax. We’re not bucking the Google bandwagon to just be different, we’re doing it because it simply wasn’t delivering the ROI we need to achieve our goals.

So, we had an idea. We had been sponsoring Kiva.org for the past few months as an organization we really admire and believe in – they’re the online micro-lending site that helps entrepreneurs in the developing world. And, we wanted to figure out a way to funnel the dollars we were sending to Google ads over to Kiva loans.

We realize we can’t give away money unless we make money. So, the experiment is to see if we can raise enough awareness and trials through this indirect pr channel to replace the paid search ads on Google – If we can, we’ll make it a permanent switch.

In other words, we’d much rather help a chicken farmer in Cambodia feed her village than fund a Google billionaire’s hobby of flying to space.

Here’s how it works:

We call it the “You try. We give.” program. The more people that learn about Jama Software and do a free trial of Contour, the more new customers we sign on. The more our business grows, the more loans we’re able to give to Kiva entrepreneurs.

The program relies on the power of social networking on the Web via blogs, news articles, people passing it along to friends and colleagues in email and word of mouth. So, we’re hitting the phones, sending emails and leveraging our online community to help us see if social marketing can truly outperform search marketing. We believe it can and we need your help to prove it.

“We’re thrilled when a company like Jama Software develops an innovative program that supports both our global mission at Kiva and their own goals.  It’s such a simple  concept, but that’s the  beauty of it,” said Jessica Jackley Flannery, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Kiva.org

If you like the idea, have a need for our product, then do a free trial and pass this blog post along to your social network. Thanks!

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Meet the new members of the Jama community.

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Jama’s “You try. We give.” program.  Meet the Kiva loan recipients.

- Tiv Socheat – mother of 2 and chicken farmer in Cambodia
- Elida Angelica Ruiz Cardenas – mother and fish retailer in Peru
- Eliseo Canales – pineapple and dragon fruit farmer in Nicaragua
- Rosemary Rushagara – mother of 4, caretaker of orphaned kids from HIV and store owner in Tanzania
- Nguyen Thi Ngat -daycare provider and educator in Vietnam

"You try. We give." program

and several others…

Who are they? They aren’t customers, employees or partners. They are the first of the Kiva.org loan recipients that we’ve sponsored through our “You try. We give.” program.

What started out as a small idea during a team meeting in February has blossomed into an ongoing program that reflects our corporate values and commitment to giving back on behalf of our customers, partners and other members of our community. For every customer that trials Contour, our collaborative requirements management software, we set aside marketing dollars to donate for loans that help Kiva.org recipients improve their own communities.

We chose Kiva.org because they embody a few fundamental principles that we share:

1. a belief that the entrepreneurial spirit lives in everyone
2. thousands of micro-actions that create a cumulative macro-effect
3. taking a collaborative, Web-based approach to solving a problem
4. an open, global community of people working together for greater success

View our lender page on Kiva: http://kiva.org/lender/jamasoftware

We’re still a young company with limited funds, so as we grow, this program will grow too. We look forward to introducing the new Kiva recipients each quarter. Thanks for showing your support by evaluating Contour and enabling us to help more companies succeed with requirements management.

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