WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell today
announced continued momentum and delivery of innovation to the
collaboration market, with more than 9,500 customers purchasing or
renewing Novell collaboration solutions in 2010. This past year,
the company released significant new capabilities for Novell®
GroupWise®, its flagship e-mail and calendaring product, while
shipping new technologies for enterprise social networking,
conferencing, mobility, and file management. In 2011, Novell will
have key product collaboration releases including the
highly-anticipated general availability of Novell Vibe™ Cloud, its
next-generation social collaboration product, which has more than
10,000 users in less than two months of beta availability.
"Organizations are increasingly taking more of an integrated
approach to their IT investments as they try to make sense of the
groundswell of information available in and outside of the
enterprise, and as many venture into the cloud," said Michael Fauscette, Group VP, Software Business
Solutions, IDC. "Novell has a strong history of solving tough IT
problems; they continue this tradition by offering a series of
integrated solutions that address multiple facets of the challenges
facing the enterprise today - collaboration, intelligent workload
management and more, which is why the company has continued to be
successful."
Markets Served
According to IDC, the collaboration market was $7.8 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach
$11.2 billion by 2014. Much of this
growth is fueled by the move to the cloud and the need to manage
the explosive growth of data. Accordingly, Novell offers a unique
'one-two punch' that helps both business users and IT
administrators achieve the benefits of real-time, social and secure
collaboration.
With its Personal and Team Productivity solutions, Novell
provides a comprehensive set of collaboration tools that enable
customers to take advantage of the new interactions required to
drive business innovation and growth. With a strong focus on
integration between e-mail, teaming, and conferencing capabilities,
Novell's tools fit into a customers' existing environment, are easy
to deploy, and provide enterprise-class security and
manageability.
With its Collaboration Data Management solutions, Novell also
provides tools that enable IT to meet the challenge of increasing
growth of collaboration data. These solutions help IT customers to
effectively manage the lifecycle of files to ensure compliance,
synchronize collaborative data across applications, and better
leverage valuable information by providing users with their data
when and where they need it.
"The face of the collaboration market continues to change at a
rapid pace and we have adapted our strategy and approach to meet
evolving customer needs," said Colleen O'Keefe, senior vice
president and general manager Collaboration Solutions and Global
Services for Novell. "Over the last year, we've broken new ground
with our powerful 'one-two' combination of personal and team
productivity and collaboration data management solutions. As the
market shifts towards real-time collaboration and messaging, we
remain committed to helping businesses communicate, share
information, and connect in new and exciting ways, both inside and
outside the organization."
Customer Success
In 2010, more than 9,500 customers purchased and renewed their
Novell collaboration solutions. These organizations, which span
several geographies and industries, include Agora, BJC Healthcare,
Colorado Department of Corrections, Court of Claims of Ohio, Kempinski Hotels, LMU Munchen, Long
Island Rail Road, RBF Consulting, Richardson International, Save
Mart Supermarkets, Texas General Land Office and Synovus Financial,
continue to experience tremendous ROI with Novell's Collaboration
solutions.
"As a long-time GroupWise customer, we have
seen continued innovation and commitment to the GroupWise
platform from Novell," said James
Sims, CIO of Save Mart Supermarkets, a $5 billion grocery retailer. "With the
release of Data Synchronizer, they have added cutting-edge mobile
data synchronization that is not only powerful but lean and cost
effective, which suits us very well. Furthermore, we have found and
maintained an extraordinary partnership with Novell, which doubles
the value we receive when compared to companies that merely sell
you goods and/or services. We look forward to continued
GroupWise innovation from Novell and a partnership that continues
to grow."
"We're operating in a radically diverse business climate. With
employees spread throughout the state, our ability to get work done
quickly, efficiently and as a team faces new challenges," said
Stephen Paxman, Deputy Commissioner
for Information Systems for the Texas General Land Office.
Cory Wilburn, Director of Business
Automation Services at the Texas General Land Office, added, "To
ensure we are consistently operating at peak performance, Novell
Vibe has allowed users across the agency to share information and
collaboratively manage tasks so that we can track the status of
projects. In doing this, Novell Vibe has also given us the ability
to standardize processes and policies which is extremely important
in the public sector."
"We had a huge volume of data to manage, yet only 6 percent of
it had been touched in the past year. We had no way of separating
the stale data out," said Michael
Glenn, senior IT manager at the Court of Claims of
Ohio. "Using Novell file
management technologies, we were able to reduce hardware storage
costs by 60 percent and slash annual tape consumption by more than
90 percent."
Delivering on Product Innovation
Novell is committed to delivering innovative products and
solutions in the collaboration space. Over the past year, the
company has released several enhanced solutions that answer
customer calls for flexibility and productivity without sacrificing
security, including:
- Novell GroupWise 8 SP2 – the leading alternative to Microsoft
Exchange, is a full-featured collaboration software solution that
provides information workers with e-mail, calendaring, instant
messaging, task management, and contact and document management
functions.
- Novell Vibe Cloud (beta) - a cloud-based, real-time
collaboration platform that combines the best of social business
and team collaboration solutions.
- Novell Vibe OnPrem – an on-premise collaboration platform
that offers the best of team productivity and project
collaboration.
- Novell Data Synchronizer – a synchronization engine that
enables Novell GroupWise to integrate with third-party
applications, including Microsoft SharePoint, SAP and SugarCRM, as
well as the next generation of mobile devices, including Android
and iPhone.
- Novell Conferencing – a web conferencing solution that enables
anyone to deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and
web pages and share their voice and video over the Internet.
- Novell Open Enterprise Server – a secure and reliable suite of
proven file, print and management services built on top of SUSE®
Linux Enterprise Server.
- Novell File Management Suite – an integrated file storage
solution that provisions, moves, optimizes and reports on file
storage based on user roles and customized business policies.
"For years, Novell collaboration products have had a powerful
impact on the way companies do business," said Pierre Chamberland, founder and CEO (chief
energizing officer) of Messaging Architects. "Novell shares the
same level of trust, commitment and innovation we promise our
customers, which is why we have forged such a strong partnership
with the company."
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), a leader in intelligent workload
management, through WorkloadIQ™, helps organizations securely
deliver and manage computing services across physical, virtual and
cloud computing environments. We help customers reduce the cost,
complexity, and risk associated with their IT systems through our
solutions for identity and security, systems management,
collaboration and Linux-based operating platforms. With our
infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell
integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to
work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.
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