<p>Enterprise social collaboration is now mainstream, with a majority of employees in a third of all corporations using such solutions. That's one of the findings in a soon-to-be-released white paper from Jive Software, an enterprise social collaboration vendor.</p><p>CMSWire.com got an early look at the paper, Enterprise Social Collaboration Solutions Hit the Mainstream and we're sharing the highlights with you. Improving Productivity, Communication</p><p>The paper notes that enterprise collaboration software differs from its consumer cousin because it needs to integrate with the existing IT environment, protect the privacy of the users and corporate data and provide the tools the business needs. In this survey for Jive, IDG Research Services queried more than 100 IT directors and managers at companies with at least 1000 employees. Of course, since Jive is a provider of social business solutions, the positive picture painted in the paper is not especially surprising.</p><p>Consumer social sites like Facebook may have inspired many employees to start using social tools at work. But whatever the reason for adoption, the report finds that improving productivity and internal communication now far outrank any other reasons, with 72 percent of respondents each. Twenty percentage points below those top two are such drivers as increasing business agility, improving the mobility of remote workers and increasing the speed of decision-making.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/jive-report-finds-more-and-more-employees-are-collaborating-at-work-023265.php">Keep reading...</a></p>