Collaboration

Our e-mail and calendaring capabilities seamlessly integrate with all our collaboration solutions, helping individuals and groups to maximize their productivity. Users access our solutions through personal productivity dashboards that blend traditional and Web 2.0 tools to support every aspect of their jobs.

These customizable dashboards serve as entryways to collaborative applications and enterprise social networking capabilities. Users enjoy anytime, anywhere access to secure workspaces where they can interact, share knowledge and consolidate information.

Combined with task and contact management, our e-mail and calendaring solutions allow users to maximize the efficiency of their collaboration, IT and business processes.

• End users can organize their in-boxes by categorizing e-mail messages, turning messages into tasks and transforming contacts into business relationships.
• Team members can publish their calendars and search those of internal and external colleagues.

Whichever collaboration suite your organization employs, users can send and receive appointments. No more hassles scheduling meetings via e-mail or being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Our tools also prevent data loss with automatic save-and-restore capabilities—an important step toward enterprise-wide security and efficiency.

Our collaboration and enterprise social networking tools empower your organization to:

• Effortlessly improve knowledge management through wikis, blogs, discussion forums and recorded meetings.
• Reduce the number of system-clogging e-mail attachments.
• Manage documents within team workspace file repositories, so no resources are ever lost, forgotten or inaccessible.

Novell can also help organizations reduce unnecessary travel and IT costs. Sending people to remote locations is costly in terms of both time and money. Our self-service personal, team and enterprise social networking workspaces contain wikis, blogs, discussion forums and other Web 2.0 tools that reduce the need for face-to-face work sessions. These tools support important collaborative tasks such as co-authoring, document and project collaboration, e-learning, community sharing, idea forums and much more—all with minimal intervention by IT.

We can further reduce your operating costs with advanced user-based workflows and custom forms that deliver the integration and automation needed to eliminate errors and improve productivity.

Keep end users productive 24x7x365. OpenOffice.org Novell Edition includes support with no need to purchase software assurance, so your business works seamlessly for less. With Microsoft Office, support can cost extra—a lot extra. OpenOffice.org Novell Edition also enables you to leverage our first-rate support any time you need it. In contrast, OpenOffice upstream support is strictly Web-based, not an ideal situation for keeping your people continuously productive.

Our office productivity applications allow users to effortlessly transition into group collaboration. Team members have no trouble sharing files created in OpenOffice.org Novell Edition because they are interoperable with Microsoft Office file formats and Windows and Linux desktops. OpenOffice.org Novell Edition also enables you to leverage our first-rate support any time you need it. In contrast, OpenOffice upstream support is not equipped to keep your enterprise workforce continuously productive.

Best of all, you can save a whopping 50 to 60 percent on average (over a three-year period) by switching from Microsoft Office 2007 to OpenOffice.org Novell Edition. And with upfront costs that are three to four times less than with Microsoft Office 2007, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition cuts your desktop TCO immediately.

With our storage management solutions, end users get what they need, exactly when they need it. You can improve knowledge management by storing documents within workspace file repositories across mixed environments. Or you can effortlessly preserve data and ensure teams have anytime, anywhere access to the same information via automated file backup and synchronization. In the event of a device outage, critical files are simply restored. Nothing is lost and downtime is minimized.

Secure the data your users need while reducing the ever-increasing cost of storage. As much as 80 percent of the data you store may go untouched for six months at a time. With Novell, your IT staff can determine use policies that automatically move infrequently accessed files to low-cost disk storage—all without impacting the end user.

Many factors can affect end-user productivity. Some of them are out of your control. Fortunately, print management isn't. Stop unnecessary workflow snarls with optimized print management. Novell print management solutions simplify advanced network services to streamline tasks like accessing print drivers. Users are more productive and can devote their time to critical responsibilities like accelerating innovation and keeping ahead of the competition.