Novell Pulse
Del.icio.usI’m in the middle of a blog series on Product Quality—of critical importance to all our stakeholders. I need to interrupt this series to comment on an exciting development.
Last week we announced one of our most innovative and impactful projects—Novell Pulse. My interruption is to explain why we are exhilirated with this. Be assured, we will get back to Product Quality promptly.
Novell Pulse—Description and Background
Novell Pulse is the product name for our project Cockpit. As I mentioned at the time, it was funded earlier in 2009 as part of our breakout move initiative. I’m excited not only because it is great technology, not only because it solves a big customer problem—but also because it shows Novell’s innovation, and demonstrates the entrepeneurial spirit of our team to get new projects brought quickly to market.
Since I outlined the project a few months ago, I will not repeat the description.
Google Wave
As we developed Pulse, Google announced their Wave project. We were stimulated by the possibilities. In the emerging real-time collaboration market there is a need for multiple providers and they need to federate. Google announced their Wave Federation Protocol (WFP) as an open approach to addressing this need. We asked—why not federate? Open is key to Novell’s value proposition! So we approached the Google team and they agreed! From this began a rapid embrace and technology collaboration to show two companies interoperating with different but related visions.
Mixing the “New” with Enterprise Needs
There are many exciting features in Pulse; focused on real-time communications and social networking. That is where we find the greatest amount of pure technical excitement.
The function will appeal to many stakeholders. Service providers will provide Pulse’s real-time communications to their customers. Enterprises will leverage this as their new communications paradigm.
Additionally, Novell has a unique platform to introduce this. This is the existing platform of enterprise communications. We have a large group of customers with our GroupWise and OES products. Pulse adds value to this customer base—bringing them into new paradigms of collaboration. In fact, we learn a great deal from our customer base in terms of enterprise requirements for cloud-based real-time communications.
This is what is truly unique about Pulse. It is secure. It is managed. Identity management. Provisioning. It is not only cool. And social. Real-time. Chat speed. Easy-to-use. But it will be a product that appeals to the enterprise.
Federation
Google got it right by developing an open federation protocol. After all, there is such an explosion of collaboration paradigms—no single company will handle them all. And different users will want to experience them differently. We’ve already discussed the explosion of communications paradigms. We all need to work together. All companies that participate in WFP will carve out their specialty. For Novell, we are focused on getting the emerging real-time communications paradigm to fit enterprise needs.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Hey Jeff, hey @all,
thats all sounds interesting – to bad that I had to use my fav. search engine to find more about Novell pulse, because you didn’t post a link to the main pulse site at novell.com.
btw: even with the search on novell.com it is hard to find, because looking for the term ‘pulse’ list you 363 documents, most about the pulse sound system, alsa etc.
so, for everyone who whants to know more about Noevll pulse: you can find it at http://www.novell.com/pulse .
best regards from berlin, germany
Thomas
November 11th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
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November 19th, 2009 at 9:46 am
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December 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
It was interesting to learn about Novell’s Pulse collaboration with Google Wave. I’ve watched the video on the Novell Web site and checked out some of the news releases that were published in the trade press. I also understand that beta testing for Pulse will begin in 2010 with a product release by the middle of 2010…first as a hosted service in the cloud and then also a premises-based service.
OK, where does this leave Kablink/Novell Teaming? The release of GroupWise 8 was held up for months while Novell put the hooks for Teaming in the product and here we are one year later and Novell is talking about Pulse as a “breakout” cloud-based service that will be better than sliced bread.
I hate to say it, but it sounds like shades of the GroupWise or NetMail question and we all know what happened to NetMail. So is the question now GroupWise/Teaming or Pulse?
Inquiring minds want to know what you are thinking Dr. Jaffee.
Thanks.
Tim Wessels
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am
Thanks for the question Tim. Teaming is a very important team collaboration project with very robust capabilities that allow customers to do fantastic team collaboration today. Novell Pulse extends Novell’s collaboration choices and solutions to achieve all of the capabilities we’ve been talking about. Both are important going forward.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
[...] trends. It must be fused with innovative breakthrough ideas. Our breakout move program resulted in Novell Pulse and Novell Cloud Security Service to provide the differentiation which is vital for a corporate [...]