| # What's New in Designer 3.0 M1
This release represents the beginning of the Designer 3.0 architecture. The following are key enhancements in this milestone:
| Easier and More Powerful Simulation |  |
Recent Customer Quotes
“Designer for Novell's Identity Manager has benefited the adoption of identity based solutions in several ways. It has streamlined the adoption of identity based solutions by simplifying solution customization. It has reduced our cost of designing and deploying Identity Manager by about 30%. It has made it easier for customers to manage and maintain a solution after it has been implemented. And it has made Novell Identity Manager the industry choice of both Novell and non-Novell customers for identity management initiatives. We applaud Novell for evolving Identity Manager in such a way that it has created a win/win situation for both customers and consulting organizations.” (November 9, 2006) Michael Weaver Senior Consultant Concensus Consulting, LLC “From a consulting aspect, Designer has literally changed the way we work. Our consultants can now take their work on the road and develop drivers while disconnected (such as on an airplane). The ability to work anywhere has increased our efficiency ten-fold! For our customers, Designer has helped ease the burden of learning to develop business rules with Identity Manager. The interface is intuitive and the on-line help is a tremendous source of reference. Other benefits such as inline testing, documentation generation, workflow design, and more, make Designer the obvious development platform for Identity Manager and helps solidify Novell's Identity Manager as a market leader for identity management solutions.” (October 23, 2006) Troy Moreland Identity Architect iDENTiTYAUTOMATiON “Designer for Identity Manager has greatly accelerated our deployments within our Identity Management Ecosystem. Without much prior knowledge or the help of more expensive consultants Designer for Identity Manager made it possible for our internal organization to design and deploy complex connections to other systems. Designer's method of click-and-run connectors is far more efficient and effective then comparable solutions or even earlier versions of IDM/DirXML.” (August 30, 2006) J. de Beer. Technical Architect Identity and Access Management City of The Hague, The Netherlands
| External Editor Integration |
| Much Less Memory Usage |
| Windows VISTA Support |
| Better View Management |
| New Modeler Toolbar |
| Track Renames and Deletes for Deploy |
| Project Rename and New Export Dialog |
| Better Naming Support and Checking |
| Better Modeler Layout Support |
| Lots of fixes to Policy Builder |
| To see a full list of What's New, click here for details and screenshots. |

We would love to hear your feedback, ideas, or bug reports on any aspect of Designer. The main Help menu in Designer has direct links to our:

- Bugzilla - which lets you submit bugs and ideas, keeps you notified, and lets you vote
- Designer Forum - which we continually monitor

We encourage your active participation. We really do consider every piece of feedback, and it has great influence on what we do. Our goal is to put as much ease, productivity, and power at your fingertips as possible and to craft the product in a way that really works best for you. At this stage, we feel like we're just getting started!