FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Kendell Sorensen
Concentrico, Inc.
Phone : (801) 221-7606
Fax : (888) 982-4499
Email : KSorensen@Concentrico.net
Web : http://www.Concentrico.net
Concentrico Fills Need for GroupWise Users, Innovates with Novell NDS eDirectory
Orem, Utah, 05 March 2001 Concentrico Inc., a custom services and software provider, will unveil version 1.0 of Reach for NDS, GroupWise Edition at Novell, Inc.s Brainshare® 2001 technical conference. The software is the first in a series of planned product releases that help users manage contact information using Novell® NDS® eDirectory technology in collaboration environments such as Novell GroupWise® and Microsoft Exchange®.
Traditionally, directories are used to manage information about corporate users, yet companies like Concentrico are finding directory technology to be well suited for other tasks. Novells eDirectory is more feature-rich than a traditional database, and for certain kinds of data such as information about people it has no equal, notes Brian Kirkby, the companys CTO. With the release of Novell DirXML, powerful data sharing and synchronization software, Novell has further extended the value of eDirectory. DirXML provides exactly the capabilities needed to successfully manage data stored in directories, databases and directories in a very streamlined fashion, he added.
Kirkby specifically referred to eDirectorys scalability, its indexing ability, and its robust API. The strengths of Novells eDirectory make it a natural choice as the backend to our product, he concluded.
And how does Novell view Concentricos non-traditional use of eDirectory? We think its great. Concentrico has shown just how powerful eDirectory can be, said Tracy Thayne, Novells Director of Global Program Marketing. Reach for NDS and Concentricos other products fit nicely into Novells One Net strategy. We expect to see more great things from Concentrico. Tay Kratzer, one of Novells foremost GroupWise experts, added Reach for NDS is the first out of the box solution to allow administrators to easily create eDirectory solutions for end-users. Finally there's an easy, administrator-controlled way to allow end-users to add information to the company directory.
Reach for NDS is intended to act as a meta directory a master list of all the people and organizations a company deals with, including vendors, partners, customers, and other external contacts. The meta directory data is stored directly in eDirectory, and can be easily synchronized with other directories, databases or applications in the company by way of DirXML, a feature Reachs competitors lack on every account.
Concentrico is slated to release an entire series of DirXML drivers in the coming months, allowing Reach for NDS customers to share important data and information between eDirectory and their line of business applications. These new drivers allow Reach for NDS customers to easily benefit from this powerful feature.
Concentrico releases Reach for NDS (page 2)
Reach for NDS has a very simple interface, and Kendell Sorensen, Concentricos Director of Marketing, is quick to point out that it contains exactly the features sought after by typical collaboration users. We are very proud of the fact that decisions about what Reach for NDS would be and do were completely driven by customer demand, he said. Reach for NDS gives the customers what they want. Nothing more, nothing less.
Concentrico intends to market the product to a wide variety of potential customers. One key market segment is the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME). The small business arena is a huge untapped market, said Sean Kirkby, Concentricos president and chief executive. Sophisticated solutions such as a meta directory typically carry a cost of ownership that prices them out of the small business market. But because of Novells eDirectory, coupled with our own innovations, an affordable enterprise-class solution is available to the SME market. We intend to exploit this opportunity.
Kirkby added that Concentrico is geared to market aggressively to the traditional enterprise market as well as the SME market. We cant bring big-business solutions to the SME market if our products dont solve big-business problems, he said.
Concentrico will be showcasing Reach for NDS at Novells Brainshare 2001 technical conference in Salt Lake City, UT.
For additional information or a demo copy of Reach for NDS, contact:
Kendell
Sorensen
Director of Marketing, Concentrico Inc.
1156 S. State St. STE 201
Orem, UT. 84097
Phone: (801) 221-7606 x2003
Fax: (888) 982-4499
E-Mail: KSorensen@Concentrico.net
Web: http://www.Concentrico.net
Reach for NDS is a corporate-wide shared address book and meta directory based
on Novells eDirectory v8.5. A variety
of clients are under development for Reach for NDS; the first to be released is
the GroupWise Edition, which makes Reach shared address books available to
Novell GroupWise users. In addition,
Reach for NDS can be kept in-synch with other corporate lists through Novells
DirXML engine.
Concentrico was founded in 1999 in Orem, UT., and is a premier provider of custom integration, support, development, and outsourced IT services. In addition, Concentrico is developing a line of commercial products.
Novell, NDS, GroupWise and BrainShare are registered trademarks or service marks, and eDirectory and DirXML are trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and in other countries.
Other trademarks or service marks are owned by their respective companies.
# # #