Jonathan Schwartz, a former CEO of Sun Microsystems — he saw it through its acquisition last year by the software giant Oracle — is joining the board of directors of Moxie Software, a player in the social enterprise space.

It’s the third board seat that Schwartz has taken since leaving Sun. He also sits on the board of Taleo, a cloud-based talent management software company, and has a seat on the board of SilverSpring Networks, a smart-grid outfit.

He’s also the CEO of Picture of Health, a start-up focused on applying technology to problems in the health care field.

So what is Moxie? It plays in the same space that Jive Software, Yammer and Salesforce.com’s Chatter do. Its software not only connects employees internally, but with customers and partners as well. It’s the kind of “big theme” that Schwartz likes. “If you’re a company, you have to interact with the customer,” he said to me last night. “Now, do you want to dump a product spec on them, or do you want to captivate their interest over a long period of time? To me, it feels like an I.Q. test.”

Moxie’s software is used in 270 million individual social enterprise interactions per month, and its customers include the consumer electronics companies Epson and Sharp, as well as the Web retailers Newegg.com and Tupperware.

Schwartz, who is also on the board at SilverSpring, was approached for the Moxie board seat by Warren Weiss, a director and lead investor in Moxie and a general partner at Foundation Capital. Weiss and Schwartz are both alums of Next, the Steve Jobs-owned computer company that Apple acquired in 1996, beginning its legendary turnaround.

Source:http://allthingsd.com/20111026/former-sun-ceo-schwartz-joins-board-of-moxie-software/?refcat=enterprise

Moxie Software™, the social workspace, today announced Enterprise 2.0 will host a free, live, webinar on how TEVA Pharmaceutical employed social enterprise software to address a challenging business environment from shifting consumer demand and changing regulations to supply shortages. Like most organizations today, TEVA Pharmaceutical’s business had become unpredictable, but the company tackled critical issues by employing enterprise social software, leveraging one of its key benefits — “spontaneous association,” that allowed its employees the ability to come together quickly to solve specific problems.

Join this informative discussion with TEVA Pharmaceutical vice president of supply chain, Tony Martins; industry analyst Michael Fauscette, head of IDC’s Software Business Solutions Group; and Steve Wylie, general manager of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, UBM TechWeb. Learn how TEVA Pharmaceutical reduced manufacturing cycle times, became more responsive to vendors and partners, and streamlined business processes through social enterprise software, dramatically increasing operational efficiencies.

Source:http://www.bradenton.com/2011/07/26/3373209/join-enterprise-20-and-moxie-softwares.html

Mountain View social-business software maker nGenera — which recently moved to Silicon Valley from Austin — has changed its name to Moxie Software.In a statement Wednesday, the venture-funded startup also announced that it has worked with Palo Alto design firm IDEO on a new user interface and combined its employee- and customer-engagement software in what it described as “a unified platform for an enterprise to engage its employees, partners and customers.”
A company spokeswoman said in an e-mail that Moxie has received more than $50 million in venture capital funding from investors including Oak Investment Partners and Foundation Capital.
Moxie competes with Jive Software, a Palo Alto startup that announced in July that it raised $30 million in a funding round led by Menlo Park venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Source:-http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/149870271