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title: 'Jive Software: Down economy? Could have fooled us'
date: '2009-07-22T10:02:24-07:00'
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# Jive Software: Down economy? Could have fooled us

Someone forgot to tell Portland-based [Jive Software](http://jivesoftware.com "Jive Software") that we’re in the midst of an economic downturn. Those folks are just blowing the curve for everybody. Or maybe it’s their customers. Whatever. Jive is cleaning up as of late.

After a [tattoo-inducing quarter](http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremiah_owyang/3200825253/ "Dave Hersh's Jive tattoo") and [recognizing 100% revenue growth year-over-year](http://www.jivesoftware.com/news/releases/2009/4/jive-recognizes-its-best-sales-quarter-in-the-history-of-the-company-100-revenue-growth-year-over-year "Jive recognizes best quarter ever"), those crazy kids at Jive keep bucking the trend by [making Q2 2009 another record setting quarter](http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/community/jivetalks/blog/2009/07/21/closing-the-books-on-q2-with-a-cloud-based-solution-a-deeper-ecosystem-and-a-new-office-in-palo-alto "Closing the books on Q2").

> The past few months have flown by, due in no small part to how heads down we’ve been. In addition to pulling off another record sales quarter, the product team has been busy working on an amazing release and we’ve all been working hard on some huge strategic projects around SBS. So as the summer heat is in full swing and we have a minute to smell the roses, I wanted to share and reflect on some of the great things that have happened over the course of the last three months here at Jive.

So what all did Jive accomplish during Q2? Quite a bit. In addition to continuing with the revenue running up-and-to-the-right, [Jive signed a partnership with SAP](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/06/23/sap-social-jive-integrate-social-business-software-sap-bi/ "SAP gets social: Jive to integrate Social Business Software with SAP BI"), hired [a new Chief Marketing Officer](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/05/19/jive-executive-team-continues-solidify-ben-kiker-steps-sam-lawrences-role/ "Jive executive team solidifies: Ben Kiker steps into Sam Lawrence’s old role"), launched [a Social Business Software offering up into the Cloud](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/05/04/forecast-jive-social-business-software-cloudy-good/ "Forecast for Jive Social Business Software? Cloudy") to make it more accessible, opened an office that’s somewhere outside the Silicon Forest, and [announced their first-ever Jive user group, JiveWorld](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/07/07/jive-announces-jiveworld-inaugural-user-group-san-francisco/ "Jive announces JiveWorld, its inaugural user group in San Francisco").

And even through all the gloom and doom news of the economy and the startup environment, Jive shows no signs of slowing.

Sound like somewhere you’d like to be? Well, [Jive is hiring](http://www.jivesoftware.com/about/careers "Careers at Jive").

For more information, see [Dave Hersh’s post on Jive’s second quarter](http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/community/jivetalks/blog/2009/07/21/closing-the-books-on-q2-with-a-cloud-based-solution-a-deeper-ecosystem-and-a-new-office-in-palo-alto "Closing the Books on Q2 with a Cloud-Based Solution a Deeper Ecosystem and a New Office in Palo Alto").

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