Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 Benefits

Novell® Small Business Suite is a full-service suite of award-winning networking software tools designed to help your business expand its capabilities through secure network storage and access, advanced collaboration, remote workstation management, and a variety of Internet capabilities.

By harnessing the power of the Internet, along with the suite's NetWare®, GroupWise®, BorderManager®, and ZENworks® products, your business computer infrastructure is more secure, reliable, and less costly to maintain. Whether you start with just one product or use all of the products included in the suite, your employees can be more productive in their day-to-day operations when using the software provided in this suite.


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The following are brief summaries of the products included in Novell Small Business Suite and the benefits that they provides for your business.

OES NetWare 6.5---Reliable networking foundation: An important part of Novell Small Business Suite 6.6 is OES NetWare 6.5. NetWare offers you secure, nonstop access to your networked information. With NetWare you can securely access files, printers, directories, e-mail, and databases from your local network and over the Internet. NetWare includes Novell eDirectory, Novell's premier directory service, allowing you to easily manage your network from virtually any Web-enabled wireless device or traditional desktop computer. NetWare also supports open Internet standards and includes innovative, browser-based Net services such as Novell iFolder® for file synchronization across your network or the Internet and Novell iPrint for simple printer installation and use. For more information, see OES NetWare 6.5: Reliable Networking Foundation.

GroupWise 6.5---Powerful communication and collaboration tools: Small Business Suite 6.6 includes GroupWise 6.5 Support Pack 4 to provide your organization with enhanced communication and collaboration capabilities. GroupWise 6.5 is a secure, dynamic collaboration solution that gives your traditional and remote users access to e-mail, calendar, and tasking tools over intranets, extranets, and the Internet. GroupWise 6.5 eliminates repetitive administrative tasks, such as user e-mail configurations, by supporting standard e-mail protocols such as Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) 4, Simple Message Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and Post Office Protocol (POP) 3. For more information, see GroupWise 6.5: Powerful Communication and Collaboration tools

BorderManager 3.8---Secure connection to the Internet: To enhance security for your small business, Small Business Suite 6.6 includes BorderManager 3.8, a suite of network services that provides a firewall to protect network resources, VPN services to safeguard remote access, support for Internet access control and content filtering, and forward-proxy technology to accelerate Web content. For more information, see BorderManager 3.8: Secure Connection to the Internet.

ZENworks Desktop Management---Flexible desktop management: You can easily manage your networked computers with ZENworks Desktop Management, Novell's policy-based desktop management tool that simplifies network administration by leveraging eDirectory to automate and streamline software distribution, software repair, desktop configuration, workstation imaging, remote management, and workstation inventory. For more information, see ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management: Flexible Desktop Management.