Network mapped drives - you know the ones I'm talking about: your personal H:\ drive, or the corporate G:\ drive, maybe you even have a departmental I:\ drive. Personally, I haven't used our network share in years, and I doubt that any of our staff have, either. It's just not...convenient. I mean, the guys are always on the road, engaging with customers across Canada and the US - we're almost never on the LAN anymore. (By the way, is it just me, or does LAN just sound so 90's?) Many years … [Read more...]

An educational client - over 75 schools, 40,000 students and more than 7,500 employees (administrative & teaching). They run Novell GroupWise. Have been for years. They have a domain with 9 post offices for the 7,500+ employees - these post offices handle a ton of email traffic every day. Most of the teachers access their mailboxes through the WebAccess interface. Another domain, with 3 post offices, handles the mailboxes for the 40,000+ students. Granted, only about 5,000 of them … [Read more...]

Novell GroupWise 2012 was recently released, and heated exchanges have been flying across the web about whether that should even be news. It all started with this blog by David Strom. Mr. Strom is described as an IT journalist, so I'm not sure what real-world experience he has with actually supporting and managing enterprise email systems; however, he apparently knows enough to claim that no one cares that Novell has a new version of GroupWise. This, of course, has set off a string of responses … [Read more...]

Novell Vibe 3.2 is right around the corner - slated for general availability in mid-November 2011. Once again, the developers at Novell have been hard at work on this new release: Versioning Management - turn on/off, set max/minor versions, auto-delete old versions, multi-delete versions Vibe Connector - sync calendars and tasks from Vibe to GroupWise File Management - file size quota Workflow improvements - need workflow transitions based on field value, add the ability for a workflow … [Read more...]

Well, we've been talking about this for a while, now: Work is What You Do, Not Where You Go! Novell used this line a couple of years ago when marketing Teaming + Conferencing, and we've continued to evangelize the wisdom of this tagline, because we believe it to be true. No matter where your work takes you, you should still be able to securely stay in touch with what is going on back at the office, contribute and collaborate with your colleagues. Teaming has since evolved into Novell Vibe, and … [Read more...]

  Implementing traditional collaboration and document management tools can be a time consuming and frustrating experience - we have seen companies struggle with other solutions for years before finally throwing them out with nothing gained! Novell's VIBE enables employees and your unique business community to access, share and preserve your most precious commodity: your corporate knowledge. GETYOURVIBE is a consulting program that takes the complexity and frustration out of what … [Read more...]

Do you know that on average, one out of every six printed pages are thrown out without even being read? According to some organizations, it may even be more! Do you spend a long time looking for files, going through overstuffed cabinets and boxes, or stacks on your desk? Are paper files taking up expensive real-estate and crowding your workspace? Are your customers requesting information that belongs to them and you can’t provide quickly enough? Are they requesting access to their … [Read more...]

In a previous segment, we looked at how Task folders can be used to manage small projects using Novell Vibe. This is great if you've got smaller teams working on projects which might not include a huge amount of tasks, resources, departments, etc. However, there are times when this might not be enough. For example, several departments or teams might be involved with getting a project completed, where each has an important number of tasks to work on. The project managers also would like to get … [Read more...]

I've recently been working with several customers who are in the midst of deploying Novell Vibe OnPrem. They are very excited at the prospect of opening new channels of communications between their employees, allowing them to collaborate together in a new paradigm: "Work is what you DO, not where you GO!" One of the questions that comes up most often when working with Vibe customers is "how can we use this to manage projects?" Excellent question! Does Vibe replace software like Microsoft … [Read more...]