The document provides a summary of Micro Focus's collaboration product roadmap. It discusses new and upcoming releases for GroupWise, GroupWise Mobility Service, Novell Messenger, and Novell Vibe. The vision is to provide unified team collaboration and enhance social business features. Key objectives are increasing release cadence, strengthening communities, and focusing on features that matter to customers. Opportunities discussed include expanding mobile access, addressing security demands, and innovating on team collaboration and social software.

1. Collaboration
GroupWise, Vibe
Product Roadmap Presentation
Mike Bills – Product Line Manager
Gil Cattelain – Product Marketing

2. Vision and strategy
What’s new and upcoming releases
Roadmap
Wrap-up and call-to-action

3. What is Workspace Productivity?
Micro Focus: Bridging the old with the new
Helping customers connect and work together simply and easily,
and increase workforce productivity
Collaboration
Helping customers manage and secure all devices, empower
users, and increase workforce productivity
Endpoint Management
Simplifying customers adoption of mobile working platforms and
file sharing & print, and increase workforce productivity
File & Networking Services

4. Micro Focus helps bridge the old and
the new
SECURE AUTOMATION
SINGLE PANE OF GLASS
TEAM COLLABORATION
MOBILITY SERVICE
USER COLLABORATION
USER WORKSPACE
Anywhere Access
Single admin to manage 10,000+
users, centralized policy-based
administration, automation with
Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory,
Outlook, Mac etc.
Seamless integration of all
collaboration tools systems by
providing a complete view of the
workspace through one console.
Create and collaborate on projects, manage
and share documents, chat, create an intranet
– a social digital workplace etc.
Assure mobility for your
users, support for iOS,
Android, Blackberry,
Windows, BES support etc.
Secure messaging,
calendaring, task
management, contact
management and instant
messaging.
Collaboration
Data
BYOD Apps
DevicesUser-
based
By enabling the new digital workspace:

5. Users: Increase satisfaction and productivity
– Collaboration: messaging, projects
– Any device, BYOD
– Protect data and content
IT: Automation, one console
– Save time
– Boost IT productivity
– Focus on other projects
Business:
– Increase workforce productivity
– Reduce risk
– Save money
Workspace Productivity Benefits
and End Result

6. Collaboration®
GroupWise, GMS, Messenger, Vibe
Micro Focus®
Collaboration

7. Market Trends
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• Enterprises are increasingly adopting hosted email platforms and
cloud SaaS to reduce infrastructure and management costsHosted Email / Cloud
• Social collaboration helps teams interact and share messages, files
and communication historySocial Collaboration
• Increasing demand around email security including encrypted,
signed, inbound/outbound and focus on data leakage via emailsEmail Security
• Business today expect to be able to reach their email from multiple
devices, at any time, from any locationAnywhere Access
• Email platforms and services are including features such as instant
messaging, web conferencing and VoIP as part of their packages
Unified
Communication Tools
• Increased importance on integration between email and CRM
solutionsCRM Integrations

8. Vision
– Provide unified instant & persistent exchange of messages, including
relevant files and communication history to enhance team collaboration
Strategy
– Focus on enhancing team collaboration and Social Business features to
“blur the lines” between instant & persistent team collaboration
– Simplify the pricing and packaging
• Bring GroupWise Mobility Services & Messenger into a common versioning,
administration and user provision implementation
– Identify and implement a “powered-by” plan for long term
– Build customer and partner communities and include them in definition
of priorities
• Ideas Portal
• https://ideas.microfocus.com/MFI/Novell-gw
• https://ideas.microfocus.com/MFI/Novell-vibe
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Collaboration Vision and Strategy

9. New and Upcoming Releases
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Disclaimer: This section is about future
releases and due to market changes,
customer enhancement requests, and who
knows what else might occur this is subject
to change. This represents the future as we
know it as of September 2015.

10. Feature Themes:
– Administration
• Web-based administration console
• REST API’s
• Active Directory support
• Advanced querying and reporting
• Delegated admin rights
• Enhanced mobile capabilities, including real-time monitoring and
support for up to 750 users and 1000 devices per server
– Client
• Updated look and feel
• Options slide-out
• More convenient signatures
• Ability to make decisions on the fly
• Filing enhancements
• “Quick To” list and enhanced name completion control
GroupWise 2014
Support Pack 2

11. Feature Themes:
– ActiveSync 14.1
• First Look: Outlook Client Limited Support
• System Address Book Photos (Cornell)
• Follow-up Flag
• Notes
– Updated Mobile Platforms
• Android 3 and 4
• iOS 5, 6, 7 and 8
• Windows Phone 7 and 8.x
• Blackberry 10x
GroupWise Mobility Service
version 2.1

12. Feature Themes:
– Mobile IM App
• iOS and Android
– Multiple Connection Support
– iOS Notification Service
– Mobile Iron
• iOS and Android
– Pin Support
• iOS and Android
Novell Messenger
version 3.0 & 3.0.1

13. Feature Themes:
– Usability improvements
• User Interface
• Sharing
• File upload improvements
• Desktop Application upgrade
• Mobile Apps
– Administration
• LDAP Improvements
• User, Team and Group Management
• Managing Shares
Novell Vibe
version 4

14. Feature Themes:
– Native Mac Clients Support via CalDAV / CardDAV
– Usability
• Pictures in the System Address Book
• Quick Tasks/Flagging
• Propose New Time on Appointments
• “Invite” to appointments In Addition to “Delegate”
• Voting
• Right Click-Paste Special Options
– Regulatory Compliant / Secure email
• 508 Certified
• SSO (Single Sign-on) options
• No Archive/No Delete on Folders and Items
GroupWise 2014
R2

15. Feature Themes:
– Outlook 2013 Desktop Client Support
• Easier Profile Creation
• Scale and Performance
– Outlook Mobile App Support
– Additional “Flagging” Changes
• Flagging emails in Mobile Client
GroupWise Mobility Service
version 2014 R2

16. Feature Themes:
– Microsoft Office Add-in 2.0
– MariaDB Support
– Quality Improvements
– GWT Implementation of Wiki and
Photo Album Folders
Novell Vibe
version 4.0.1

17. What’s on the Radar

18. • Increase release cadence in the Collaboration
Portfolio
• Strengthen communities and use communities
and customer data and enhancements from Ideas
to drive requirements
• Focus on Social Business features that matter to
our customers and deliver
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Key Objectives

19. Collaboration Market Opportunities
Expansion and diversity of client access including mobile
Security and compliance demands from regulated industries
Relentless attention on decreasing cost of ownership
Innovate on team collaboration and social software for
business

20. Vibe Market Opportunities
Integrations with Filr
Stronger Vibe Connector for Two-way GroupWise Integration
Authentication improvements for stronger interoperability

21. Some of Our Customers

22. • Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to GroupWise 2014
– http://www.novell.com/docrep/2014/03/top_ten_reasons_to_upgrade_to_groupwise
_2014.pdf
• GroupWise 2014 Video
– http://www.novell.com/media/content/conquering-business-communication-with-
novell-groupwise-2014.html
• GroupWise Resource Library
– http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/resource-library.html
• Visit IDEAS Portal and Vote!
– https://ideas.microfocus.com/MFI/Novell-gw
– https://ideas.microfocus.com/MFI/Novell-vibe
Call-To-Action

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