You and your teammates can work together without being in the same room or working at your computers at the same time. Someone can post a note or document to a folder, and, at their convenience, teammates can comment on the work, review and edit files, and further develop the idea. With Novell Teaming, teamwork is ongoing and potentially never-ending.

When you are working online at the same time, the “presence” feature of Novell Teaming allows you to see which teammates are currently online, and allows you to start a chat session by using Novell Conferencing, create an online meeting using Novell Conferencing, make a Skype phone call, and so on.

Ideas are formed together, interactively, with your teammates. By the time you hold a meeting in the conference room, the team has already been a part of the formation of the idea, and teammates are more likely to understand it, buy into it, and assist with its implementation. Novell Teaming becomes a "pre-meeting" meeting.

Documents are reviewed earlier in the process, which allows easier modifications and adjustments. Novell Teaming also makes it easier for more than one person to write a document, because of workflow processes that automate drafting and review, and because of Novell Teaming access control that easily designates writers and reviewers.

Your collaborative process is preserved and publicly accessible in Novell Teaming. No more searching through e-mail folders in a frantic effort to "catch someone up" on a lengthy e-mail discussion. To review past discussions and decisions, or to review a previous version of a document, use the powerful search capability of Novell Teaming to locate historical information quickly and easily.

Use various Novell Teaming tools in combination-a milestones folder, tasks, workflow, discussions, chat, online meetings-to track progress against goals for multiple teams working on a large project.