Smaller Staff

Manage tons of users with a tiny administrator staff

With Novell GroupWise you can support up to 10,000 users on a single server. And centralized, policy-based administration means one administrator can manage several thousand GroupWise user accounts; in fact, many current Novell customers manage 5,000-10,000 users with only one administrator. (Yes, you read that right.)

The most overlooked aspect of the collaborative equation is the one that makes it possible for your users to get anything done at all. Your IT staff deploys and maintains your system, and supports the knowledge workers who use it. If the system you choose is reliable, virus-resistant and efficient, it makes the most of every IT resource you have—from hardware usage to staff-hours—toward the optimum end result: enhanced and reliable personal productivity for users.

If, however, your system is vulnerable to viruses, security breaches and downtime, your IT staff has to work twice as hard to support your knowledge workers. When those systems go down, the people using it can't get their work done—and your IT staff has to scramble to get the engine of productivity back in use.

If you're using a collaboration system like Microsoft Exchange / Outlook, you know first-hand how quickly the IT part of that productivity equation can turn into a vicious cycle. You have probably seen first-hand just how damaging that cycle can be.

Here's what GroupWise administrators have to say about its ease of administration:

"We have about 15,000 accounts, 14 post offices, 7 domains and 3 Web access servers. It is amazing that one person can take care of all that." – Victor Cable, Cobb County School District, United States

"We have about 4,500 GroupWise users, and only one administrator. It is a four domain setup, running all on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, including GroupWise Mobile Server. Favorite feature, hands down, is the stability!" –Daniel Bray, Health First, Inc., United States

"The hospital has 8,000 employees. There are 9,000 e-mail boxes, and I'm the only GroupWise administrator." – Eddie Munoz, Scott and White Hospital, United States

"At Southern Regional Medical Center we have more than 1,500 users. I come from a background using Microsoft Exchange, and I originally thought that the transition I would have to make to GroupWise would be untenable; however, the ease of getting into GroupWise administration has been a pleasant surprise. Due to the intuitive controls of GroupWise, I've been able to ease into GroupWise administration, self-learn the ins and outs of the system and even implement BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise." –Michael Johnson, Southern Regional Health System, United States