Cerner expands use of Jive's enterprise collaboration solutions to improve health care delivery

Jive Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: JIVE) today announced that Cerner Corp., a global leader in health care technology, has expanded its use of Jive's enterprise communication and collaboration solutions. Cerner's 93,000-member community, called "uCern," uses Jive-n to enable industry-wide collaboration that helps clinicians systemically strive to improve health care delivery. Cerner recently added Jive's Ideation Module to enhance its client request submission software.

Since 2009, Cerner's hybrid uCern community has driven knowledge sharing among hospitals, clinicians and medical device companies, as well as technology suppliers, consultants, researchers and industry experts. With the new Jive-powered uCern Ideas, Cerner clients now have a collaborative forum to provide feedback and influence changes in the solutions they use daily.

"uCern gives our clients, associates and suppliers an inspiring place to connect, communicate and collaborate as we work towards the mutual goal of changing the face of health care," said Jeremy Davis, director of client operations, Cerner. "We expanded our long-term relationship with Jive to include Jive Ideation and offer an interactive platform for increased feedback across all levels."

To date, Cerner has received more than 8,600 ideas and clients submit hundreds of new ideas each week. The company has implemented nearly 850 of these recommendations into its software or solution roadmap. Jive's Ideation Module helps companies like Cerner to crowd-source creative ideas through rich media sharing, commenting, voting, scoring, highlighting, browsing and filtering.

"Cerner's constant innovations help health care facilities manage mounting operations costs and increasingly complex data collection and sharing requirements," said Chris Masino, senior vice president of worldwide sales, Jive Software. "It's a pleasure to support Cerner's leadership in the health care industry by enabling the company to inspire massive collaboration across a variety of stakeholders. Cerner is one of many Jive customers to expand its use of our solutions over the years because the company sees the significant value of enterprise collaboration and communication."

Cerner also leverages Jive for internal collaboration with its nearly 21,000 associates. The company uses uCern to speed solution development and design, to facilitate employee on-boarding, and for client communications and announcements. Ninety-nine percent of Cerner associates are active uCern members, sharing nearly 80,000 documents, blogs, videos, discussions, bookmarks and other types of content each month.