Novell's GroupWise 5.5 Gives Companies the Ability to Harness and Manage the Power of
Corporate Information
Novell Offers Enhanced Document Management, Inter-Company Collaboration and
Internet Standards and Security Support
BRAINSHARE, Salt Lake City March 24, 1998 Novell, Inc. today
announced
a beta version of GroupWise® 5.5, Novell's premier collaboration product for corporate
networks
and intranets. An enhanced business-class, collaboration tool, GroupWise 5.5 gives network
users
immediate value through improved tools that gather, access and communicate corporate
information. It
does this through expanded information manageability and inter-company collaboration
capabilities.
Users will benefit from support of industry-standard Internet security, improved open Internet
standards
support and Novell's continued commitment to offer the lowest cost of ownership for its
networking
solutions. In addition, this latest version of GroupWise will include increased functionality of
E-mail,
calendaring and scheduling, and enhanced performance and administrative capabilities while
remaining
the easiest collaboration solution to use.
"This latest, enhanced version of GroupWise is an important implementation step in Novell's
strategy to
deliver the most scalable, reliable and powerful collaboration solution as one of the pillars of its
intelligent networking platform," said John Gailey, director, Novell Collaboration Services
Group.
"GroupWise 5.5 provides a high-performance, Internet-ready collaboration solution that lets
businesses
easily manage the daily deluge of information they must effectively deal with in order to be
successful
today."
GroupWise allows users to manage all information types in the enterprise, from spreadsheets,
word
processor files, graphics, E-mail and calendars from a single point. Users receive immediate
value from
the new features of GroupWise 5.5 in the form of powerful, easy-to-use tools that strengthen and
support
business processes.
Expanded Information Management and Inter-Company Collaboration
GroupWise 5.5 incorporates new and expanded functionalities that lets users leverage the power
of
traditional document management via the GroupWise Universal Mailbox.
- Enhanced Calendaring Expanded calendar printing options and appointment descriptions
let users
accept an appointment or see the results of a busy search with such specifics as "free," "busy,"
"tentative
appointment" or "out of the office." Calendar views have also been expanded to include a
multi-user
view and a month view.
- Full-Text Indexing All incoming information, including E-mail, documents, tasks and
scheduling,
is full-text indexed, allowing the user to more easily view, prioritize and manage the daily flow
of
business information.
- Dynamic References/Attachments GroupWise systems dynamically recognize when a user
sends a
document reference to users outside of their GroupWise system and attaches the document for
those
users.
- Related Fields Document property fields have been expanded to allow users to relate
property
fields to one another, enhancing contextualized retrieval of documents.
- Document Echoing Documents are dynamically "echoed" from a GroupWise library to a
user's
local hard drive, giving users access to all of their documents and network information even if
the user is
remote.
Enhanced Internet Security
GroupWise 5.5 now gives users the confidence to send business critical information across the
Internet
securely, while still maintaining the full encryption security already provided within GroupWise
systems.
GroupWise 5.5 users are now enabled to sign, encrypt, decrypt, authenticate and access
non-repudiation
capabilities across the Internet through Entrust 3.0 for S/MIME and/or PGP via the respective
products
which are enabled for GroupWise. Users may also set defaults to sign and/or encrypt all
messages.
Improved Open Internet Standards Support
The upcoming version of GroupWise provides users with a combination of extensive,
out-of-the-box
Internet and intranet functionality that enables them to fully leverage the Internet and corporate
intranets
for E-mail, document management and collaboration processes. GroupWise WebPublisher is
integrated
into this latest version and allows users to publish documents directly to the Internet and
corporate
intranets and dynamically share information while maintaining the robust security, concurrency
and
version control of GroupWise document management. GroupWise 5.5 further supports open
Internet
standards through native Internet addressing and HTML viewing. Native DNS-based Look-up
and
routing have been added as a first step toward full inter-company communication, allowing for a
dynamic
link between unconnected GroupWise systems that retains the rich attributes of shared
information such
as tasks, E-mail or calendar items. Through Intelligent Content with HTML and Embedded
Scripting,
GroupWise lets users enrich their GroupWise environments through the creation of
individualized scripts
or forms in industry-standard languages such as VisualBasic and JavaScript. These languages
allow users
to access and manipulate information in the GroupWise repository.
GroupWise 5.5 supports the vCard electronic business card format, which lets users exchange
information and instantly create a new GroupWise address book record. Users may also send and
receive
vCard signatures via E-mail.
Commitment to Total Value Networking
As with other versions of GroupWise, this latest version lowers total cost of network ownership
by
providing customers with the immediate value of deploying one of the easiest to use
collaboration
solutions. All the enhanced GroupWise 5.5 features designed to expand the information
management
capabilities of Novell's collaboration solution can be easily accessed and immediately utilized
through
the familiar and powerful GroupWise interface.
GroupWise 5.5 further lowers the total cost of network ownership by leveraging Novell
Directory
Services (NDS), reducing administrative costs and keeping system maintenance
to a
minimum. NDS helps to reduce administrative time and effort by providing enterprise-wide
administration tools that automatically replicate all GroupWise object changes on the user's
client/server
platform of choice. GroupWise 5.5 also saves administrative time through automatic database
maintenance and link scheduling.
GroupWise 5.5, Novell's premier application for NetWare® and NDS, continues to expand
upon
the Internet standards support introduced in GroupWise 5.2, and offers sophisticated
collaboration
functionality through GroupWise WebPublisher and WorkFlow Professional capabilities.
GroupWise remains one of the most scalable collaboration solutions in the market, powerful
enough to
easily meet large scale enterprise needs, yet easy enough for small businesses to use and
maintain.
Further addressing network users' concerns, GroupWise 5.5 has been thoroughly tested and
meets all
Novell Year 2000 readiness specifications.
On the client, GroupWise 5.5 will support Win 95 and NT, Win 16, Mac and UNIX. On the
server,
GroupWise 5.5 will support NetWare 3.X, 4.X and 5.X, NT and UNIX. Upgrade and pricing
details will
be provided at the time of first customer ship.
Attendees of Novell BrainShare '98 received copies of the beta version. Availability of an open
beta will
be announced at a later date. Additional information about GroupWise 5.5 beta can be accessed
on the
World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com/groupwise.
About Novell
Founded in 1983, Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's leading provider of network
software. The
company offers a wide range of network solutions for distributed network, Internet, intranet and
small-
business markets. Novell education and technical support programs are the most comprehensive
in the
network computing industry. Information about Novell's complete range of products and services
can be
accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com.
Novell, Novell NetWare and GroupWise are registered trademarks. Novell Directory Services
and NDS
are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of
their
respective holders.
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Novell, Inc.
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