 On
February 14, 2007 the news finally hit the streets: Novell and
Sitescape announced their cooperation to integrate the strong Sitescape
offerings for Team Workspace, Real-Time Collaboration
and much more with GroupWise. There had been rumors for quite some
time, but soon we will be able to see some first results:
team spaces, document sharing, web conferencing, this combination will
deliver much more than just an alternative solution for Microsoft
Sharepoint and other offerings. The people behind GroupWiseR
will of course follow these new developments closely, we expect much
more news during BrainShare in March 2007. And soon after BrainShare we will
inform you about this during the GroupWiseR EMEA Tour in a location
near you, more info here.
WALTHAM,
Mass.—14 feb 2007—Novell today announced the addition of team workspace
and real-time collaboration solutions to its workgroup product
portfolio. The new offerings will help boost end-user productivity and
reduce overall customer costs by simplifying the everyday business
activities people engage in to create, share, discuss and manage
information. Knowledge workers will be able to easily identify
resources based on the expertise of other users, quickly assemble
high-performance teams, and efficiently manage and access all aspects
of team projects. Managers and team members will be able to work
effectively from any location, saving time and travel expenses.
“Novell has always been focused on improving the ways people work
together to achieve organization goals,” said Joe Egan, senior network
engineer for Children's Hospital Central California. “These new teaming
and real-time collaboration offerings will round out Novell's workgroup
offerings while giving us and customers like us tools to increase
productivity and cut costs while actually making life better for end
users.”
Kent Erickson, Novell vice president and general manager of Workgroup
Solutions, said, “These new products will deliver team workspace,
social networking and real-time Web conferencing capabilities to the
many customers who have already deployed proven Novell® workgroup
services on Linux*, further enhancing their investment in Linux and
Novell. They will give customers a compelling alternative to Microsoft*
SharePoint* and will be a valuable complement to the Novell Open
Workgroup Suite, delivering a more complete, open and cost-effective
workgroup productivity solution from desktop to server.”
Novell has entered an OEM licensing agreement with SiteScape
(http://www.sitescape.com) – an innovator in software that integrates
team workspaces with presence-based, real-time collaboration – to offer
these new products. The Novell offerings are expected to be available
later this year, and product names will be announced at a later date.
A recent Gartner report** stated, “Automating more processes
electronically often means more interaction between people is
necessary. People need to interact with each other, but they are not
always going to be in the same location or even in the same time zone.
E-mail grew to be a common piece of workplace infrastructure because of
the need to communicate inside and outside organizations. Now, with the
pressure to do more things more quickly, real-time collaboration is
gaining traction and is now a 'must have' part of a workplace
infrastructure.”
For more information about workgroup solutions from Novell, visit http://www.novell.com/workgroup.
(See
full press release).
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