Novell Open Enterprise Server

Novell Branch Office 2

Note: Novell Branch Office™ is no longer available as a standalone product. It is available exclusively to Open Enterprise Server customers with maintenance or upgrade protection.

Overview

Novell Branch Office centralizes control of your network resources and provides a fault-tolerant, enterprise-class experience for users throughout your distributed network. With Novell Branch Office server software, you can increase the productivity of remote employees as you significantly reduce both the cost and complexity of deploying network services in your branch offices.

Simplify Administration

To alleviate the burden on your IT staff, Novell Branch Office offers you a low-cost and efficient means of centralizing remote network services. You can consolidate servers, storage and applications and manage these resources from a central location. You can also automatically provision remote users. Logging in through Novell Branch Office, any authorized user—whether a branch office employee, mobile salesperson, visiting executive or partner—is instantly granted access to appropriate local resources.

Reduce Costs

With Novell Branch Office installed at remote offices, you'll eliminate the need for costly, on-site IT resources. Novell Branch Office can also securely leverage the Internet for WAN connectivity. As a result, you can enjoy the control and simplicity of a centralized directory while reducing your connectivity expenses by up to 50 percent. In addition, Novell Branch Office is hardware independent: you will quickly realize the cost-saving benefits of adhering to your company's current hardware support contracts and purchasing standards.

To eliminate costly backups at branch offices, Novell Branch Office securely replicates data back to your central office over an SSL connection. Up to an 80 percent reduction in backup costs is possible. In fact, Novell Branch Office offers you all-around IT cost savings of up to 10 percent and a complete return on your investment in just three to six months.

Improve User Experience and Productivity

To cut costs you consolidate services, but your branch office users still require immediate access to files, printers and other resources. With Novell Branch Office, these users always receive an integrated and individually relevant view of the network. In addition, they can use Novell Branch Office to access and share files quickly and easily over any protocol. They can also discover and install printers using their Web browsers and then instantly print to local or remote printers.

Novell Branch Office further protects the productivity of remote users by replicating data back to a central office: should either the corporate office or the Novell Branch Office device experience downtime, remote users can be assured of continued access to network resources.

Features

Secure and reliable, Novell Branch Office is server software that offers you:

Auto-provisioning technology
Support for multiple standards, clients and operating platforms
Secure authentication and communication
Browser-based management of branch-office resources
A consistent Virtual Office interface
Disaster tolerance through automatic backups
Hardware independence

Benefits

With Novell Branch Office running at your remote offices, you can:

Improve user experience and productivity
Realize significant IT savings
Achieve ROI in three to six months
Consolidate hardware and software
Eliminate support-related travel for IT personnel
Improve fault tolerance
Eliminate local backups
Simplify directory management
Leverage your current infrastructure

With Novell Branch Office, you can dramatically reduce the cost of delivering enterprise-class services—on demand—to users across your distributed enterprise.