March 20, 2002—Novell, a provider of Net business solutions, has just introduced the Novell Workspace, a Web-based team collaboration solution that gives team members a personalized view—based on their role on the team—of all their project and team-related priorities. Novell Workspace also provides a central place to store work in progress, along with decisions and notes made during team meetings, as well as easy-to-build team agendas and project management capabilities. For executives and managers, it shows project milestones and status of key actions and responsibilities.
Novell says that since most teamwork is performed by individuals working on coordinated tasks within their own schedules, Workspace helps individual team members work more effectively across multiple projects. It is designed for non-technical users and does not burden IT staff with continual Web-site support. Organizations reduce costs as teams can more easily adapt to team resource changes with minimal impact to new and existing team members. Action items, project history, team notes, and documents remain with the team and do not leave when a team member leaves, which also helps new team members come up to speed quickly on the project.
Novell Workspace will initially integrate with Novell GroupWise and Microsoft Exchange. It will be available in the third quarter of 2002. For more information, visit Novell.
