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Novell has announced the general availability of Novell Vibe Cloud, the 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.
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 organisations 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 organisations to reach new levels of efficiency in the global workplace.
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 organisations 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 synchronise 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 synchronisation, email integration and robust editing tools available with the basic version, the enterprise edition includes organisational management console which allows enterprise IT to centrally manage access controls according to the organisation’s security policies, federated authentication and single-sign on, ability to create as many groups as needed, more storage, data ownership and support.
“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.”