Innovation, efficiency and sound decision making happen when you can get to the right information and people—in real time and across corporate and system boundaries. Make it easy with Novell Pulse. There's nothing to deploy: just use your browser, sign up and begin collecting content, collaborating with colleagues and even co-creating documents. Attend this session to see how the product can help your users connect with people and ideas to get work done.

1. Novell Pulse: Redefining
®
Enterprise Collaboration
Andy Fox
VP of Engineering
afox@novell.com
Pulse: afox

2. What is Novell Pulse? ®
• Real-time messaging
– Email-style messages
– Chat-style messages
• Real-time collaboration
– Co-author wiki-style pulse documents
– Organize a knowledge base of attached, and pulse documents
– Synchronize file folders with integrated Novell iFolder *
®
* Not in preview
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3. What Does Pulse Do Differently than
Traditional Collaboration Tools?
• One collaboration tool for working together
• Real-time authoring
– Character-for-character, multi-participant editing
– No merging – work at the same time
• Unified information – nothing siloed
– Message = Chat = Document or Wiki
– Search, tag, organize all information the same way
• Reach your audience - any combo of 3 ways to publish
– 1. Direct
– 2. Social: To your own blog address - for your followers to see
– 3. Group: Private or social groups
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4. Real-Time Contact List
• Buddy List for
Following
– People
– Groups
– Searches*
• Provisioned
• Suggestions
• Email invites
• Presence*
• Post snippets
• Alpha or most
recent posts
• Favorites
* Not in preview
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5. Browse and Connect
• Your followers
• Global or
organizational
groups and
people
• Your followers'
followers
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6. “Big List”: Unified, Real Time Inbox
• Direct: email-like
• Social: Personal
Feed / blog
– Only you post on
your feed
– You control
replies
• Group Feed:
– Many controls on
access, viewing,
posting
• Message visitor
activity
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7. Groups: Manage Ad Hoc Teams
• Pre-provisioned
• Instant team
creation
• Org-aware
Controls
– Who can see
it (can you
browse for it)
– Who can
follow it
– Who can post
on it
• Send
messages to
group feeds –
• Just like people
feeds - all
followers get it
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8. Profiles for People and Groups
(Group Workspace)
• Banners
• Sections
• Add searchable
fields
• Table of contents
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9. Real-Time Search and Tagging
• Real time search
– Post it and it's
available
– Saveable*
• Tags update in
real time
• Social / Global
Tags
• Personal Tags
* Not in preview
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10. Email Connections
• Email
notifications
– Feed replies
– Direct msgs.
– Only those
you know, etc.
– Per group
• Email in*
• Reply back in
email*
* Not in preview
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11. Permissions
• Personal
– Following
– Direct
messaging
– E-mailing
• Group
• Organizational
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12. Files / iFolder
• Attachments
– View
– Download
– Tag / Sort*
– Edit in place*
> Offline
• iFolder
* Not in preview
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13. Editor / Wiki Styles*
• Formatting
• Sections
• Sub-sections
* Not in preview
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14. Enterprise Console *
• Administration
roles
• License mgmt.
• User mgmt.
• Permissions
• Sign-on provision
Configuration
• Activity logs
• Reporting
* Not in preview
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15. Gadgets, Robots, and Wave
• Novell Pulse and Google Wave share a code
®
component called “Operational Transform” that makes
character for character co-edit function
• Gadget support
• Robot 2.0*
• Wave Federation Protocol*
* Not in preview
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16. Summary Features Beyond Preview
• Versioning / Attribution • Editor enhancements
– Pulse Docs • Event notifications in
– Attachments
browser (not just e-mail)
• Doc edit-in-place
• Message copy, inline-
reply
• E-mail in / reply
• Enhanced delete, draft,
• API message counts
• Enterprise console • Enhanced search
• Follow list presence • Novell iFolder
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