Jive brings workgroup collaboration to Microsoft Office

PC World | at | by Mike

Jive has given its enterprise social-networking software what it calls its biggest overhaul yet, giving users the ability to collaborate on Microsoft Office files and to use the product from mobile devices, including an application built specifically for the iPhone.

Jive's Social Business Software (SBS) 4.0, which the company will release on Tuesday, comes with a new "connector" that allows users to jointly author, view, annotate and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.