Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in Education

Novell® End-User Computing Success StoriesCollaboration / Education

July, 2010

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40K users

Novell® Collaboration Benefits

Increase productivity

• Avoid unnecessary travel expenses – savings of $80K per year

• Improve efficiency of employee interactions while centralizing corporate knowledge

• Enable real-time collaboration – more efficient and transparent project management

5K employees

Manage information growth

Leverage investmentsand skills on Linux

• Reduce software licensing costs and need for diverse IT skills – reduce up to 80% by consolidating NetWare servers

• Take advantage of open platforms – savings of $800,000 by leveraging Xen virtualization on OES-Linux instead of VMware

11K PCs

6K employees

FORTUNE 500

26K users

• Optimize file storage costs and ensure compliance with identity-driven provisioning and tiering tools

• Improve decision making by keeping information in sync

Impact Success Stories


Customer Success Novell® Collaboration

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 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. Training has been surprisingly painless. - Jul 20097K employees

4K users

We simply could not afford the increased software and hardware costs of a Microsoft [SharePoint] upgrade... Our Novell solutions paid for themselves immediately. - Jan 2010

40K users

1K employees

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 cost-effective for Centrotherm. - Apr 2010

We selected Novell [over Red Hat and Windows] because we've had a good experience with NetWare and Novell Open Enterprise Server is an excellent value. - May 2009150K users


2010 Novell Pulse Buzz2010 Novell BrainShare attendees quotes

“I like the collaborative editing--where different people are working simultaneously on documents from different places. That's wild--totally different from anything we're 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 out of business”

“I think it's going to replace e-mail. It will definitely be a very useful too”

“As a user of SharePoint, I like the direction Novell Pulse is going in”

“The premise is actually pretty cool. A user in Novell Pulse can work in real-time on a document simulta-neously with a user on Google Wave. From the Novell side, all security is managed and maintained by Novell.”- Rob Koplowitz, Forrester Research

“Novell Pulse makes real-time collaboration more suitable for corporate users”- Fortune Magazine


Key Analyst RecognitionNovell® Collaboration

Novell GroupWise: 55-65% lower cost of ownership compared to other leading systems, Osterman Research, Apr 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

Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, Oct 2009


Press PresenceNovell® 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

Novell File management suite: eWeek product to watch, Feb 18, 2010

Groupwise 8: eWeek product to watch, Jan 5, 2009

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

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

Collaboration In Education


Challenge

Solution Results

"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."

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.

Create a professional learning environment across its 10 schools

Novell GroupWise®

Novell Teaming

OpenOffice.org Novell Edition

Also:

Novell ZENworks™

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop & Server

Partner: Omni

Saved 75 percent on licensing costs (vs. Microsoft SharePoint)

Increased staff participation in professional learning projects by 65 percent

Reduced travel costs, while increasing efficiency and security

Win over Microsoft

Updated January 2010


Challenge

Solution Results

"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.”

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.

Make student e-mail more functional and user-friendly for its 40,000 users

Provide a service that would be more attractive to students than free Web-based e-mail

Novell Open Enterprise Server

Novell GroupWise

Also:

Novell Cluster Services™

Novell ZENworks™

Convinced users to switch from free Web-based e-mail

Integrated its e-learning platform with GroupWise to provide a simple user experience

Reduced e-mail administration costs thanks to ease of administration

Win over Microsoft

Updated January 2010


Challenge

Solution Results

"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.”

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.

Replace university's e-mail system with a cost-effective and mobile collaboration solution

Novell GroupWise


Also:

Novell Cluster Services™

Novell ZENworks™

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server

Increased productivity of users on-the-go

Improved collaboration among employees from separate locations

Updated May 2010


Challenge

Solution Results

"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.”

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.

Go green, but also encourage teachers and staff to work together in groups

Novell GroupWise


Novell Teaming

OpenOffice.org Novell Edition

Also:

Novell ZENworks

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server

Dramatically reduced travel costs and the need to print administrative documents

Reduced desktop software costs by 95 percent by moving to OpenOffice.org

Win over Microsoft

Updated March 2009

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