Workgroup Collaboration

Secure Collaboration Tools

How much work gets done when your collaboration system crashes? Almost none. This problem is all too familiar for organizations that rely on a collaboration system with a less-than-stellar security and reliability record. You shouldn't have to compromise. It's your business progress that's at stake. And in some cases, it's your reputation and customer goodwill you stand to lose. You need a collaboration solution that runs on the platforms you have, offers the features your information workers need and delivers the security and reliability that make a difference.

How Novell Solves the Challenge

This is your opportunity to swap the crashes, vulnerabilities and headaches of Microsoft Exchange for the security, reliability and efficiency of the Novell® workgroup collaboration solution—GroupWise®.

More than 90 percent of an organization's most current and confidential data is available within its communication and collaboration systems. Eighty-eight percent of viruses are spread through e-mail. How secure are you? An independent audit gauged the number of vulnerabilities in the major collaboration solutions. The results?

CERT.org July 2005 Documented Vulnerabilities:

Exchange/Outlook = 357
Lotus Domino & Notes = 72
GroupWise = 9

Just because you depend on Exchange, doesn't mean it's dependable. GroupWise gives you a more reliable partner. A February 2005 survey revealed that:

52 percent of GroupWise customers said they had not needed to reboot their GroupWise System for over six months.
87 percent experienced less than 10 hours of unplanned downtime a year.

When it comes to TCO, GroupWise is hard to beat. Besides offering a much more attractive licensing package than Exchange, GroupWise boasts some rather juicy numbers:

A single GroupWise administrator can easily manage more than 10,000 users.
Some administrators manage as many as 20,000 users each.
GroupWise can handle a load capacity up to 200 times greater than that of Exchange, vastly reducing your hardware acquisition and management costs.

Novell GroupWise comes equipped with a new migration utility that makes for a painless switch from Microsoft* Exchange 5.5, Outlook 2000 or a previous version of GroupWise. The reality is that it may actually be easier and cheaper for your organization to move to GroupWise than to migrate to Exchange 2003.

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