Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux. The beaver Dam Unified School District, the University of Regensburg, George Washington University, and Tuscaloosa City Schools all employ Novell Collaboration services- from Novell Teaming, to Groupwise, to ZENworks, and more- to meet their IT needs.

1. Novell End-User Computing
®
Success Stories
Collaboration / Education
July, 2010

2. Novell Collaboration Benefits
®
Impact Success Stories
• Avoid unnecessary travel expenses –
savings of $80K per year
5K employees
• Improve efficiency of employee
Increase interactions while centralizing corporate
productivity knowledge
• Enable real-time collaboration – more 11K PCs
efficient and transparent project
management 26K users
• Optimize file storage costs and ensure
Manage compliance with identity-driven 6K employees
information provisioning and tiering tools
growth • Improve decision making by keeping
information in sync
• Reduce software licensing costs and need
Leverage for diverse IT skills – reduce up to 80% by
investments consolidating NetWare servers FORTUNE 500
and skills on • Take advantage of open platforms – savings
Linux 40K users
of $800,000 by leveraging Xen virtualization
on OES-Linux instead of VMware
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3. Customer Success
Novell Collaboration
®
We selected Novell [over Red Hat and Windows] because
we've had a good experience with NetWare and Novell
150K users Open Enterprise Server is an excellent value. - May 2009
We needed to make the new university e-mail system more
attractive than Google Mail. GroupWise offered an attractive
®
interface and powerful functionality, with encrypted mailboxes
for users. We selected Novell ahead of Microsoft for its
40K users
openness and mixed source approach. - May 2010
Novell Open Enterprise Server works like a dream – even
people with no Linux experience have picked it up rapidly.
7K employees Training has been surprisingly painless. - Jul 2009
We simply could not afford the increased software and
hardware costs of a Microsoft [SharePoint] upgrade... Our
4K users Novell solutions paid for themselves immediately. - Jan
2010
By contrast with SharePoint, which required the service
provider to carry out even routine administration tasks, the new
solution [Novell Teaming] is considerably simpler and more
1K employees
cost-effective for Centrotherm. - Apr 2010
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4. 2010 Novell Pulse Buzz
2010 Novell BrainShare attendees quotes
“Novell Pulse makes “I like the collaborative editing--where
real-time collaboration different people are working simultaneously
more suitable for on documents from different places. That's
corporate users” wild--totally different from anything we're
- Fortune Magazine used to seeing”
“It gives security to what is otherwise
chaos. If you leverage information right, you
win. If you don't leverage it right, you'll be
“The premise is actually pretty cool. A out of business”
user in Novell Pulse can work in real-
time on a document simulta-neously
with a user on Google Wave. From the “I think it's going to replace e-mail. It will
Novell side, all security is managed and definitely be a very useful too”
maintained by Novell.”
- Rob Koplowitz, Forrester Research
“As a user of SharePoint, I like the
direction Novell Pulse is going in”
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5. Key Analyst Recognition
Novell Collaboration
®
Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the
Workplace, Oct 2009
Leaders’ quadrant, Forrester Wave™: Collaboration
Platforms, Q3 2009
“Novell Storage Manager and Dynamic Storage
Technology are well positioned to address
emerging challenges... The world must know about
this technology”, IDC, Doc # 216013, Jan 2009
Novell GroupWise: 55-65% lower cost of ownership
compared to other leading systems, Osterman
Research, Apr 2009
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6. Press Presence
Novell Collaboration
®
No matter which way you slice it, the future of the enterprise is
about collaboration. Because Novell leverages what Wave has
to offer while simultaneously providing the features the
enterprise really cares about, Pulse could be something to
keep an eye on. - Mar 2010
Teaming looks to have all of the capabilities an
enterprise environment would be looking for in an
Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform giving easy access
to information. - Sep 2009
Novell File management suite: eWeek product to watch,
Feb 18, 2010
Groupwise 8: eWeek product to watch, Jan 5, 2009
Combined with a feature that makes licensing, account and
storage decisions, GroupWise 8 offers everything an IT
®
administrator looks for in a solid mail server. - Nov 2009
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7. Collaboration In Education

8. Win over Microsoft
The Beaver Dam Unified School District has 3,400 students and 450 faculty and staff.
Located north of Madison, Wisconsin, the district includes 10 schools and an
administration building.
"Our Novell solutions paid for themselves immediately. With our software cost
®
savings, we have been able to increase our in-classroom technology more than 60
percent above our projections. We wouldn't have this kind of dynamic and
progressive environment without Novell."
Challenge Solution Results
Create a professional Novell GroupWise® Saved 75 percent on
learning environment across licensing costs (vs. Microsoft
its 10 schools Novell Teaming SharePoint)
OpenOffice.org Novell Edition Increased staff participation
in professional learning
Also: projects by 65 percent
Novell ZENworks™ Reduced travel costs, while
increasing efficiency and
SUSE® Linux Enterprise security
Desktop & Server
Partner: Omni
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9. Win over Microsoft
Founded in 1962, the University of Regensburg in the UNESCO world heritage city in
eastern Bavaria has more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students, with
approximately 5,000 staff.
"We needed to offer users added value to make the new university e-mail system
more attractive than free Web services like Google Mail. Novell GroupWise
® ®
offered an attractive interface and powerful functionality, with encrypted
mailboxes for users. We selected Novell ahead of Microsoft for its openness and
mixed source approach.”
Challenge Solution Results
Make student e-mail more Novell Open Enterprise Convinced users to switch
functional and user-friendly Server from free Web-based e-mail
for its 40,000 users
Novell GroupWise Integrated its e-learning
Provide a service that would platform with GroupWise to
be more attractive to Also: provide a simple user
students than free Web- Novell Cluster Services™ experience
based e-mail
Novell ZENworks™ Reduced e-mail
administration costs thanks
to ease of administration
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10. The George Washington University is the largest institution of higher education in the
nation's capital. Each year, GW enrolls a diverse population of undergraduate, graduate
and professional students from all 50 states, and more than 130 countries.
"The collaboration and mobility features of Novell GroupWise are very popular with
® ®
our users. Having two main campuses 30 miles apart, our users aren't always in the
same location and have become dependent on the Novell Messenger (formerly
GroupWise Instant Messenger) client. It's now part of our day-to-day operations.”
Challenge Solution Results
Replace university's e-mail Novell GroupWise Increased productivity of
system with a cost-effective users on-the-go
and mobile collaboration Novell Open Enterprise Server
solution Improved collaboration
Also: among employees from
Novell Cluster Services™ separate locations
Novell ZENworks™
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
®
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11. Win over Microsoft
Located in western Alabama, Tuscaloosa City Schools have 10,000 students and
1,300 faculty and staff across 22 schools. The school district works to create a learning
environment that prepares students for success in the 21st century.
"We found Novell Teaming easier to use and administer than Microsoft SharePoint.
®
We also selected Novell GroupWise as our e-mail and collaboration platform
®
because the hardware, software and administration costs would have been much
greater with Microsoft Exchange.”
Challenge Solution Results
Go green, but also Novell GroupWise Dramatically reduced travel
encourage teachers and costs and the need to print
staff to work together in Novell Open Enterprise Server administrative documents
groups Novell Teaming Reduced desktop software
OpenOffice.org Novell Edition costs by 95 percent by
moving to OpenOffice.org
Also:
Novell ZENworks
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
®
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Updated March 2009

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