Team Productivity

Projects are executed more effectively with the right mix of talent, tools and motivation. This leads to greater innovation and efficiency and the ability to complete tasks on time.

Under-delivering Teams?

All too often, team members are unaware of their organizations' expertise or previous work, and new team members can't come up to speed quickly enough.

Because the right people aren't brought together to collaborate, innovation decreases, costs rise and organizations lose their competitive advantage.

Projects are executed more effectively with the right mix of talent, tools and motivation.

Team Productivity Capabilities

Social networking and search capabilities help end users locate experts and create high-performance, networked teams. Version control, milestone tracking, and check-out and check-in features streamline document management, and the built-in workflow tool automates business approval processes.

Enterprise Social Networking

Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming + Conferencing let organizations take full advantage of today's popular social networking trends. Individuals can use familiar, MySpace-like tools—customized for enterprise use—to create personal workspaces, home pages, wikis and blogs. These resources serve as an effective on-ramp to improved collaboration, helping users to easily find and leverage expertise for their projects.

Real-time collaboration components allow users to conduct online meetings instead of relying soley on costly face-to-face travel. This leads to higher productivity and lower travel costs, as well as an improved capacity to work with distributed teams.

Travel Costs out of Control?

Employees lose time—and often productivity—in transit. In addition, travel costs can easily exceed available budget. But few collaboration tools provide the real-time and virtual collaboration tools to replace costly face-to-face meetings.

Real-time collaboration components allow users to conduct online meetings instead of relying on face-to-face travel.

Presence Integration

Extensive presence integration between Novell Teaming and the conferencing components of Novell Teaming + Conferencing make it easy to see in an instant if someone is available. Users can take advantage of pervasive presence icons to contact the authors of documents, blogs or wikis—or even launch an IM session, online meeting or phone call in real time. The result in each case is more immediate and higher-quality communications.

Organizational content and team knowledge is captured, stored and indexed for future reference and easy dissemination. This allows users to quickly locate information, find the latest document versions, post comments or questions in team wikis or blogs, and access recorded online meetings.

Can't Track Information?

Many organizations struggle with inconsistent document quality and employees who don't follow the document approval process. In addition, the absence of business process automation and document management can lead to stale data and projects that lack proper approvals and force costly delays.

Organizational content and team knowledge is captured, stored and indexed for future reference and easy dissemination.

Team Productivity Capabilities

Storing information in team workspaces ensures that relevant information is accessible to team members who need it. Built-in workflow streamlines approvals and ensures that projects are approved by the right people through the right processes. Version control helps reduce error and the proliferation of stale data.

Easy-to-Use Workflow and Document Management

Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming + Conferencing make it easy for end users to improve business processes. Document management and content approval are done automatically, so users don't need to employ manual systems that are prone to error and misuse. And reusable workflow templates can easily be customized, eliminating costly and time-consuming work on the part of third-party providers or IT.