Novell News & Articles

Back in April, we wrote about Novell's (news, site) latest SaaS offering, Vibe Cloud, which was supposedly a challenger to established enterprise collaboration tools like Chatter and Yammer. With a refocusing of its corporate strategy (and a new president), Novell is decommissioning the service, in favor of its Vibe OnPrem on-premise solution.

While CMSWire and others have been talking about content curation for a while, it has increasingly been coming up in the context of its use as a necessary component of the future of journalism.

In the world of office productivity suites, where content and collaboration professionals aim to make users as efficient as possible, Microsoft Office is still way ahead of the pack when it comes to deployment. But there are many alternatives on the market now, which, according to new research by Forrester, are being tried out by companies, if not fully deployed -- not yet, that is.

Vibe Cloud, Novell's competitor for the enterprise collaboration pool, was released from beta this week. The company claims the platform is different from popular solutions like Chatter and Yammer, but it's a difficult thing to be original these days. Here's our take: 

Novell (news, site) joins the booming enterprise social networking scene with Vibe Cloud, but does it offer anything different?

The focus of this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston can be summed up in one word: Collaboration. The event was teeming with solutions of similar structure, each with an aim to enhance the same concept. And while that might've been a let down for attendees hoping to see some variation, it certainly serves as an undeniable indicator of the future of business. Here are some of the highlights:

Betting that Google Wave would've fared better had it been released for business folk rather than consumers, an enterprise software company called Novell recently announced their own real-time collaboration mashup platform. Because it uses the Wave Federation Protocol, Novell Pulse is essentially Google Wave with a greater emphasis on security and management.

Awards season rolls on and some familiar names are lined up in the many categories for the CODiEs (news, site), now in their 25th year.

In addition to CA's release of GRC Manager 2.5, the world of GRC is chock-full of partnerships and inquiries.

You work in an organization where critical documents need to be securely stored yet easily available to those that need them. You also collaboration on those documents with other employees and/or partners who are a little farther away than in the next cubicle. That's your story. It's not unique -- it's becoming the norm.

We all need a sane way to manage, share and collaborate on these docs. But you, like the rest of us, are busy and you don't have the time to research each and every potential vendor solution.

What you want to know is what have others done and how it either succeeded or failed.

IntraLinks and Forrester are running a one hour online session entitled: New Trends in Ultra-Critical Document Sharing: Case Studies You Can Put to Use Today.

What should catch your eye is the case-studies bit.

It's about what organizations have faced, what they have done to resolve their issues and how it worked. These are real world case studies for managing partnerships, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, compliance and financial audits. And some of them come directly from mouths of people who work in these organizations.

You are on a need to know basis. And you need to know, now. Actually you probably needed to know yesterday, but we can't help you there.

Strike your fancy? Sign-up here. The event happens next Tues the 17th at 2pm EDT, 11am PDT.

Groupwise 8 is now available via Novell. The release aims to boosts personal productivity with a customizable dashboard that allows users to interact with traditional and Web 2.0. tools, from e-mail to blogs. It also provides a flexible and reliable tool on a platform that is able to run on multiple servers and clients -- including Windows, Linux, Mac and the Web.

In an effort to steer businesses away from high costs and low flexibility that come with vendor lock-in, IBM opened LinuxWorld in San Francisco with the announcement of an integrated open collaboration client for Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.

Yesterday Novell announced the upcoming availability of Open Workgroup, the first workgroup suite for small businesses that provides flexy solutions based on “proven” open source-based software.

Bullies can only survive so long — and like some Marxist fantasia, particularly debauched, abusive bullies are known for awakening the revolutionary ire of those who, en masse, could easily spell tyranny’s downfall.

The context is set. Now for the major players. The diverse and ever-growing Linux community, newly united as The Linux Foundation, may be preparing an assault against longtime ruler Microsoft that is expected to sting - if not immediately, then with time.

Vignette has announced further integration of its flagship portal product (read Epicentric's acquired portal server) by adding new features supporting collaborative workspaces.

Ok, so this posting is a bit off topic, being largely focused on Vignette's new collaboration features, but the release also spends some time lauding the relative success of Vignette's [Epicentric] portal server in the market.

Why are we posting this here? Because there is a question begged (or perhaps just lingering in our minds) in the article. According to the cited research conducted by Morgan Stanley, the Vignette portal is #3 in implementations behind IBM and home-brewed solutions. The convergence and inter-relations between CMS and portals is a market fact these days. And again, IBM is number one in portals.

So here's the question: When is IBM going to get their CMS ducks in a row? The recent acquisition of Aptrix is (in our opinion) not the answer here. Atprix is Web CMS, but it is based on a Lotus Domino solution. The question lingers..

Read the Vignett press release.