Collaboration

Closed collaboration is an oxymoron. Yet some claim that new collaboration innovations should only be available through old closed systems. Novell believes that today’s best collaboration solutions require an open approach. Because that’s the only way you can bring people together and help them get things done—without barriers and without restrictions.

Novell offers a new model for technical and business innovation—and a more effective approach for bringing people and resources together. With the Novell approach, you gain the advantage of using open source development processes and open standards to create collaboration solutions that best match the needs of your business. You tap into a vibrant community of experts who can help you apply new ideas to tough collaboration problems. And you gain the freedom to interoperate and collaborate with any system or any group—regardless of which software platforms or tools they’re running.

This new model actually makes you part of the innovation, and it opens the door to closer, more productive relationships with whatever software vendors you choose to work with.

Novell is ready to make your transition to more effective collaboration smooth and rewarding—with solutions and approaches that reflect more than two decades of collaboration experience and embrace the latest open source processes and innovations.

Your people are ready to meet the challenges of the 21st century, but they need a new generation of collaboration tools to do it. Those tools are waiting. And the best time to embrace them is right now. Start giving your teams the technology they need to break through to new levels of creativity and productivity today. Because your business simply can't afford to cling to 1.0 solutions in a 2.0 world.

Today, cross-functional teams on three different continents need the ability to work together as if they were sitting in the same room. Blogs, wikis, instant messaging and other social networking tools are becoming as essential as phones and email. And intense new competitive pressures have made even the smallest communication limitations dangerous and unacceptable.

These raised expectations require a new generation of collaboration tools, and organizations that are slow to embrace them will inevitably limit their ability to compete and lower their chances for success.

Novell is ready to offer you the fastest and safest path to this new generation, with the core of a combined unified communications and collaboration solution. With Novell, you can deliver the Web 2.0 technology your young and vibrant workforce needs to reach its full potential. You can remove the communication barriers that prevent your teams from achieving the radical productivity breakthroughs they're capable of.

And best of all, you can do all these things today, because Novell is ready right now to provide the guidance, technology and support resources you need to embrace next-generation collaboration with complete confidence.

Experience matters—even in a Web 2.0 world. Novell has been in the collaboration and networking game since the beginning—with individual productivity tools and collaboration services that millions of customers have depended on for more than 20 years. Today, we’re using that hard-won experience—along with our unique ability to apply open source technology to real business problems—to shape and inform a whole new generation of collaboration solutions. It’s Web 2.0 for business. And it’s only available from Novell.

Novell can offer you both the proven, solid collaboration foundation your business needs today—and a fresh, innovative springboard into the future.

The foundation is the trusted and respected set of collaboration tools we’ve refined and perfected over two decades—including e-mail, calendaring, and a long list of essential networking and IT infrastructure services.

The springboard is next-generation enterprise collaboration tools—like team workspaces, enterprise social networking, blogs, wikis, and real-time chat and conferencing—all working together and interoperating with your IT infrastructure to solve your toughest business problems.

And of course, a proven global partner and support ecosystem will provide the services you need to move into the next generation of collaboration solutions smoothly and with complete confidence.

At Novell, the technology you trust, the innovation you seek and the experts you need all come together to create a new collaboration model that empowers people, strengthens teams and boosts productivity.