WALTHAM, Mass., April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell today
announced the general availability of Novell Vibe™ Cloud, the first
secure, real-time, web-based social collaboration platform for the
enterprise. Novell Vibe Cloud is offered as an online service and
comes in two editions – basic, with all the functionality needed to
demonstrate proof-of-value, and enterprise, which offers additional
security features, management controls and premium support. Novell
also announced the Novell Vibe Enterprise Social Getworking Program
to help enterprises quickly deploy and gain value with the
enterprise edition of Novell Vibe Cloud. Customers can signup at
www.novell.com/socialgetworkingprogram for a chance to receive
everything from on-site consulting and support to free enterprise
subscriptions.
"Industry trends indicate that people want social tools in the
workplace, but social tools alone won't make business users more
productive," said Erin Traudt,
Research Director, Enterprise Collaboration and Social Solutions at
IDC. "New social collaboration offerings, like Novell Vibe, help
put the social functionality people want in the context of
accomplishing their daily work, while adding the security and
compliance control that enterprises need. It's this combination
that helps people get work done not only faster, but smarter."
Novell Vibe Cloud is web-based and easy to use like consumer
social networking tools, but built for the enterprise. It combines
real-time co-authoring, social messaging, and file sharing with the
security IT needs. It makes it easy for people to work together
across organizations while maintaining enterprise security
policies. All it takes to bring a colleague, partner or customer
into Novell Vibe Cloud is their email address, and Vibe integrates
with any email client through standard protocols. Taking
collaboration beyond single-purpose social and real-time solutions,
Vibe Cloud helps people to work together across organizations to
reach new levels of efficiency in the global workplace.
The free basic version, announced in beta in November, has
already had thousands of users set up accounts at
https://vibe.novell.com. Using Vibe, people can stay in the loop,
tap into good ideas, connect better with customers and partners,
get feedback and finish joint work faster. Beta users have
found that Vibe helps them work together in many ways, including
making it easy to:
- Assemble ad-hoc teams and contribute as a group to real-time
meeting minutes
- Collaborate across organizations with the ability to invite
external colleagues by email
- Leverage experts and files to build a best-of-breed sales
presentation, RFP response, etc.
- Keep people up to date and participate in relevant topics
and conversations
- Share and synchronize files from the desktop to the cloud so
everyone can find the latest version quickly and easily
Marking the first time Vibe Cloud is available for purchase, the
enterprise version brings social and real-time together in a secure
manner, across business and company boundaries and gives users a
place to work together to achieve better results. In addition to
the desktop-to-cloud two way file synchronization, email
integration and robust editing tools available with the basic
version, the enterprise edition includes:
- Organizational management console: allows enterprise IT
to centrally manage access controls according to the organization's
security policies.
- Federated authentication and single-sign on: uses
industry standard SAML to integrate seamlessly with enterprise
identity and access management systems for policy-driven
provisioning.
- Unlimited groups: gives users the ability to create as
many groups as needed to match the fast pace of new and evolving
joint business work efforts and opportunities.
- More storage: increases the basic version's storage
limit of 250 MB/user to a pooled company storage of 5 GB/user so
people can share, store and leverage the files they need.
- Data ownership: gives the enterprise ownership of all
data stored across users' groups in their domain and facilitates
compliance efforts.
- World-class support: includes premium support from
Novell to keep your business on track and collaborating around the
clock.
"Novell Vibe Cloud is an innovative product that brings together
social and real-time communications with Novell's rich history in
collaboration tools," said Colleen O'Keefe, senior vice president
and general manager, Novell Collaboration Solutions and Global
Services. "This fast, secure and easy-to-use solution gives the
user, and the business, a tool they want to work in along with the
flexibility and control they need to be both protected and
productive."
Novell Vibe Enterprise Social Getworking Program
Novell will be selecting up to 10 eligible customers who signup
at www.novell.com/socialgetworkingprogram to receive free
consulting to help get their organization up and running on the
enterprise edition of Novell Vibe Cloud. Novell will work with
participating organizations closely to ensure optimal planning,
setup, communication and support along the way.
Availability
Novell Vibe Cloud basic and enterprise versions are available
worldwide today. Signup for the basic version at
https://vibe.novell.com and for the enterprise version at
http://www.novell.com/products/vibe-cloud/how-to-buy/. To learn
more about Novell Vibe Cloud and how it can help your organization,
visit http://www.novell.com/vibe-cloud.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), a leader in Intelligent Workload
Management, 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.
Novell, the Novell logo, and the N logo are registered
trademarks and Novell Vibe is a trademark of Novell, Inc. in
the United States and other
countries. *All third party trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
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