Introduction to Novell ®  Pulse   Reaching Better, Faster Business Outcomes   Andy Fox VP of Engineering  [email_address] pulse.novell.com/afox/profile Wendy Steinle Marketing Director [email_address] pulse.novell.com/wsteinle/profile
What's  Top of Mind  for IT? 2010 State of the CIO Survey Rank  improving end-user workforce productivity  as their top projected accomplishment Source: CIO Magazine, 2010 State of the CIO Survey, January 2010
Make  Collaboration  Better for the Enterprise User We Created Novell ®  Pulse to...
E-mail  Pluses and Minuses Copy Data | No Repository  Ad Hoc | Easy   + -
Team Workspace  Pluses and Minuses Shared | Repository   (hint: it's the exact opposite of e-mail) + - Setup | Training | Time Consuming
Users Like Social Messaging, But... Most Implementations  Aren't Secure Of people  use social tools for business  more than two times per week  - IDC 54%
Social Messaging Tools are About Passing  Small Messages  Around Enterprises Need to Work with  Documents
Working Independently and  Merging  and Managing  Versions Working with Documents Means...
Getting Past “Merge and Manage” Online,  Real-time  Documents Solve the Challenge
Enterprise social networking Real-time,  online document co-editing Easy file sharing and sync Secure + + Novell ®  Pulse   Combines the Best of: Cloud-based
How is Novell Pulse  Different ? One collaboration tool for  working together Character for character real-time authoring Three ways to reach your audience Unified information box Conversations, files and online docs in  group context + + + + +
Novell ®  Pulse  Key Features Co-editable, real-time Wiki
Unified Inbox
Social blog
File browse, sync (iFolder), versioning
Real-time awareness: people, group, and message activity monitoring Real-time chat, document commenting
Real-time gadgets
Real-time search, tagging
Dashboards
Wave Federation (WFP)
Cloud and on-premise deployment VERSIONS BASIC: Complete feature set Limits on groups and storage Community support ENTERPRISE: Expanded data storage Unlimited groups Enterprise management console Tiered support
Novell ®  Pulse  Could Have a Similar Game-changing Effect Imagine a World  Before E-mail Faster decision making
More informed employees
Time savings Richer connections and idea sharing
Easier for people to collaborate
Novell ®  Pulse Use Cases Get Feedback Example: User experience developer puts out new design to his “network”
Some responses come in collaboratively “chat room” style
Some come in later show 5 more replies May 14
Novell ®  Pulse Use Cases Up-to-the-minute Project Status Use “status” tag in group to see team updates Strategy Partner Mobile FTO More.. . Status
Example: “Partner dinner is a week away, I need to know who is coming by 11:00” Novell ®  Pulse Use Cases Ad-hoc Collaboration and Consolidation
Example: “RFP” Novell ®  Pulse Use Cases Co-document Creation: Merge-Free
Sales Help / Urgent Response Example: “I have a customer meeting in two hours.  What's the return policy?”
Novell Pulse solution:  Simultaneous  post to your Feed (network) and three different sales groups
Users come into your message in real time and chat around solution
Quick, collaboratively formed answers; 1 response chain, no duplication of effort Come up to speed on a topic / Stay in-the-loop Example: “I need to know more about our partner program.”
Novell Pulse solution: Search for groups and people who have documents and profiles featuring your partner program
Follow them; read groups and peoples' posts
Engage the people as real-time messages come through Novell ®  Pulse Use Cases The List Goes On...
Get Connected
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Mouse over Any User or Group  to Follow * not in preview
Suggestions Recommend People  and Groups * not in preview
Browse for People and Groups
Connect via Your Contacts' Connections
Information Pushed to You in Real Time
Unified “Big List”:  Direct, Feed, Groups
Filter to Manage Overload
Shortcuts Filters:  Home / All, Direct, By You

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