Sydney reseller Hedloc has become a preferred Asia-Pacific partner for US corporate social networking specialists, Jive Software.
Hedloc chief executive officer Bruno Pisano said Jive was a web business social networking tool for breaking down information silos within businesses and providing staff an overall view of documents and other data that “redefined” collaboration.
“What do we do with all the documents in our organisation? How do we aggregate all the knowledge?” said Pisano.
"Jive’s enterprise social networking platform allows customers to engage employees, customers and the social web like never before. We see Jive as the social networking platform for the enterprise.”
Jive was known as the software behind a HTML internal social networking platform developed for the US intelligence community, often referred to as A-Space or the "Facebook for spies". And it was used by companies such as Cisco, SAP, Nike and Starbucks.
Pisano said Hedloc had enterprise and government customers in Australia and Asia Pacific serviced from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. Details regarding some of the company’s customers were expected to be made public soon.
John McCracken, a senior sales executiev with Jive said ""Hedloc is uniquely positioned to extend the reach and adoption for Jive and Social Business in the APAC market".
Pisano said that Jive would inspire creative solutions for collaboration and help organisations to improve customer service and public awareness due to easy integration with popular public social-networking platforms. There were also promising opportunties for Jive to be integrated with Hedloc's capabilities for mapping and other applications.
Last month, Hedloc signed an exclusive deal to resell in Australia the web-content management solutions of US-based Box, which specialises in allowing organisations to share and manage content across operating systems, mobile devices and the cloud. Pisano said it was popular with small businesses.
