eGuide is a browser-based solution that lets your employees search for people and places regardless of your LDAP data source location.
eGuide looks like an address book. But unlike an ordinary address book, eGuide is platform and application independent. It can be accessed by any user with rights to your Web server via a standard Web browser.
You can use eGuide to search Novell eDirectoryTM as well as multiple LDAP data sources at the same time. For example, if your company purchases another company, you can provide a combined white pages view of both companies using eGuide pointing at two separate directories.
eGuide runs on the most widely used platforms and is compatible with e-mail, instant messaging, and real-time collaboration tools, such as Microsoft* NetMeeting* or AOL* Instant Messenger*. When users find the people they are looking for, eGuide lets them launch the type of communication that fits their current needs---e-mail, instant messaging, and even video conferencing. See Mapping and Enabling Attributes for Instant Messaging and NetMeeting.