Coolest New Features in Novell GroupWise 8
For Windows, Linux/Mac and Web Access
Windows
- Bring Web 2.0 tools right into your GroupWise Home View—Create customized dashboards to bring front-and-center the tools and information that help you be most productive for any given project or aspect of your job. RSS feeds, favorite blogs or Web sites, team workspaces or other frequented Web applications - you can bring them all right before you in a nearly unlimited number of interactive panels.
- Unleash your calendar—Subscribe to external calendars and overlay your work schedule with important holidays, your favorite sporting events or anything else you need to keep on your radar, and get live updates. You can also publish your own calendar so colleagues outside your organization can busy search your schedule and easily set appointments. A new second time zone feature makes it easy to manage appointments in different regions of the world.
- Keep better track of your progress and priorities with intuitive task management—Prioritize tasks, visually see the percent complete, add subtasks and keep it all top-of-mind in a task panel in your Home View dashboard.
- Turn your contacts into relationships. With a look and feel that brings your contacts alive, a new card format lets you add photos and profile information such as profession, published calendar link, birthday and family member names. Communication history and your notes with each contact also display so you can easily follow up on previous conversations. And, with GroupWise 8, no more searching from one address book to another; search automatically queries all of your address books.
- Know the latest and the history on a discussion with a single click—Sort and view e-mails within a discussion thread. You can also open an e-mail and see the thread history with one click. No more responding to an issue that's already been solved or searching through your in-box and sent folders to piece together a discussion.
- Leverage your favorite document editor to format your e-mails—Compose e-mail in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice so your e-mails look to others the way you intend.
- Find one less thing to curse when your computer crashes. Auto Save is here!—Finally, you can rest easy knowing that any work you do in GroupWise will automatically be saved when your computer freezes.
- Start your vacation sooner—A simplified Vacation Rule gives you a no-hassle way to easily set up an auto-reply to tell others you are out of the office. With start and end options, you don't have to worry about turning off the vacation reply once you return.
Linux/Mac
- Enjoy a Linux and Mac interface that's more like the one Windows users have. You have wanted to use a GroupWise client that looks and acts more like its Windows counterpart. Now you can! Customize personal dashboards to bring front-and-center all the tools that help you be most productive for any aspect of your job.
- Bring together multiple calendars—Import external calendars and overlay your work schedule with important holidays, your favorite sporting events or anything else you need to keep on your radar. Color-code appointments so you can keep track of professional and personal commitments. And, a new second time zone feature makes it easy to manage appointments in different regions of the world.
- Gather together all your e-mail accounts—Interact with your external e-mail accounts (gmail, yahoo, POP, IMAP and NNTP) within GroupWise. Organize them into folders and even place them in your Home View.
- Organize your inbox—Sort your e-mails by fields such as date, subject sender, etc. Display your inbox to include a sneak peak at the first line of each message, see discussion threads or entire message previews.
- Find things like never before—Now you can search for e-mails, appointments and contacts with a “Quick Find” feature.
- Get notifications as you like—Receive alerts for appointments and e-mails. Set notifications so you can get to meetings on time and receive return status on emails and appointments you send out.
- Find one less thing to curse when your computer crashes. Auto Save is here!—Finally, you can rest easy knowing that any work you do in GroupWise will automatically be saved when your computer freezes.
- Tag e-mails and appointments—Add standard or customized categories to e-mails and appointments so you can pay attention to what's urgent, remember to follow up to a request, or simply read an item later.
Web Access
- View all of your e-mails in one list—Now you can see all your messages in one, scrollable list, which means no more clicking on “Next 20” to see additional e-mails. You can also re-size and re-order columns to suit your needs.
- See your calendar come to life—With an improved graphical interface, color-code appointments so you can keep track of professional and personal commitments, and drag and drop meetings as your schedule changes.
- Get the calendar performance you need—Publish your calendar so others can busy search your schedule and set appointments. And, now you can adjust your time zone to keep track no matter where you are; no more missing meetings because of mixing up local time with what's reflected on your calendar.
- Enjoy improved contact management—With dynamic filter and search capabilities, you can be more productive online working with contacts. With contact “quick viewer” you can quickly search through all of your contacts. You can also check e-mail history for any contact and receive birthday and anniversary notifications.
- Find one less thing to curse when your computer crashes. Auto Save is here!—Finally, you can rest easy knowing that any work you do in GroupWise will automatically be saved when your computer freezes.
- Create impactful e-mails with graphical formatting—With new HTML features and on-the-fly spell check (java plug in not required), you can create customized e-mails that look and read the way you want. No more boring text e-mails.
- Get to your inbox faster—Typically when you log in to your web e-mail, you have to wait until your address books load in order to use your inbox. Now you don't have to wait; your e-mails and appointments are automatically name-filled when you login.
- Print your daily tasks—Now you can print a clean and organized view of your calendar that you can take with you when you are not in front of your computer.
