Jive buys Proximal Labs for analytics

Jive Software acquired social network analytics company Proximal Labs.

Jive did not disclose financial or other terms of the deal. Jive moved its headquarters from Portland to Palo Alto, Calif. in early 2010, though the company maintains a presence in Portland.

Proximal Labs - which is also based in Palo Alto - will "help accelerate Jive's efforts to use the power of 'big data' to unlock the value of the social graph in the enterprise. The acquisition is part of Jive's mission to be at the forefront of social business and build one of the next great enterprise software companies," the company said.

The Proximal team will join Jive's engineering group. It includes "engineers, scientists and innovators who have been contributors to notable open source projects, including Apache Hadoop," Jive said.

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