Teaming & Conferencing
Users will be able to create real synergy with Novell Teaming + Conferencing. It allows for social networking within the enterprise, where subject matter experts are easily identified and where new team workspaces can be easily formed. It makes teamwork and knowledge sharing a built-in workgroup feature. Through an automated review process, work is more immediately visible for review, feedback, and revision.
Novell Teaming brings together people and the content they need to do their jobs. Users create workspaces and invite other members to participate�both from within or outside organizational boundaries. Virtual teams can easily and securely manage, share, locate and access documents, calendars, discussion forums, wikis and blogs. Novell Teaming also includes powerful, built-in workflow functions to help team members track the status and progress of documents. Team workspaces also enable enterprise social networking and the creation of effective teams, with members chosen not by proximity, but because they possess the required content expertise and skills for the project.
The additional features of the real-time collaboration solution in Novell Teaming + Conferencing make users aware of the online availability of team members and give users the ability to instant message (IM) with team members�either individually or as a group�or participate in live voice or Web conferences. The Web conferencing components let users share desktops, show slide presentations and participate in white-boarding sessions. With these solutions, teams communicate more effectively and become more productive on the platform of their choice (Linux and Windows) than ever before.
Novell Teaming & Conferencing includes:
- Document management and sharing
- Team calendars and shared task lists
- Discussion threads, wikis, blogs, and RSS feeds
- Workflow
- Content and knowledge management with quick search
- Web and voice conferencing
- Instant messaging/chat
- Application sharing and whiteboarding
- Integrated presence awareness
Does what it says on the Tin
The knowledge capture and sharing capability inherent in a team workspace ensures nothing is lost when an employee leaves an organization. Because documents are stored in team workspaces, the organization preserves an individual's contributions if he or she leaves the company. The work done as part of a larger group or team effort is retained in the workspace and can be accessed by existing and new team members at any time.
Everyone knows that employee turnover costs money. And its not just the process of hiring new people; getting new team members trained and up to speed on current projects can take weeks or even months. But what if, from the project's genesis, you had a way to capture the contributions of every employee? Novell Teaming + Conferencing help transfer the knowledge and experience supplied by current team members to anyone new who comes along. And the social-networking aspect of the teaming software allows new team members to quickly locate experts and begin collaborating and sharing knowledge.
Stop flying your people all over the place just so they can work together for a few days. The real-time collaboration components in Novell Teaming + Conferencing will significantly reduce the need for travel. Users can engage in live voice or web conferences that simulate in-person meetings without anyone having to deal with jet lag. The Web conferencing components enable productivity by letting users share desktops, show slide presentations and participate in white-boarding sessions. During a conference, a few members can split off into their own breakout session while the remaining participants stay in the main conference room. And if anyone on the team misses the conference, it can be recorded and saved so users can replay it later.
And don't worry about putting an extra burden on your help desk. The self-provisioning and self-management of team workspaces (with easy to use, end-user enabled workflow) ensures that your information workers won't have to rely on intervention from the IT department, thereby reducing helpdesk calls.
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