CollaborationGroupWise, Vibe

Product Roadmap Presentation

Mike Bills – Product Line Manager

Gil Cattelain – Product Marketing

Vision and strategy

What’s new and upcoming releases

Roadmap

Wrap-up and call-to-action

What is Workspace Productivity?Micro Focus: Bridging the old with the new

Helping customers connect and work together simply and easily,

and increase workforce productivity

Collaboration

Helping customers manage and secure all devices, empower

users, and increase workforce productivity

Endpoint Management

Simplifying customers adoption of mobile working platforms and

file sharing & print, and increase workforce productivity

File & Networking Services

Micro Focus helps bridge the old and the new

SECURE AUTOMATION

SINGLE PANE OF GLASS

TEAM COLLABORATION

MOBILITY SERVICE

USER COLLABORATION

USER WORKSPACEAnywhere Access

Single admin to manage 10,000+ users, centralized policy-based administration, automation with Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, Outlook, Mac etc.

Seamless integration of all collaboration tools systems by providing a complete view of the workspace through one console.

Create and collaborate on projects, manage and share documents, chat, create an intranet – a social digital workplace etc.

Assure mobility for your users, support for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows, BES support etc.

Secure messaging, calendaring, task management, contact management and instant messaging.

Collaboration

Data

BYOD Apps

DevicesUser-based

By enabling the new digital workspace:

Users: Increase satisfaction and productivity

– Collaboration: messaging, projects

– Any device, BYOD

– Protect data and content

IT: Automation, one console

– Save time

– Boost IT productivity

– Focus on other projects

Business:

– Increase workforce productivity

– Reduce risk

– Save money

Workspace Productivity Benefitsand End Result

Collaboration®

GroupWise, GMS, Messenger, Vibe

Micro Focus®

Collaboration

Market Trends

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• Enterprises are increasingly adopting hosted email platforms and cloud SaaS to reduce infrastructure and management costsHosted Email / Cloud

• Social collaboration helps teams interact and share messages, files and communication historySocial Collaboration

• Increasing demand around email security including encrypted, signed, inbound/outbound and focus on data leakage via emailsEmail Security

• Business today expect to be able to reach their email from multiple devices, at any time, from any locationAnywhere Access

• Email platforms and services are including features such as instant messaging, web conferencing and VoIP as part of their packages

Unified Communication Tools

• Increased importance on integration between email and CRM solutionsCRM Integrations

Vision

– Provide unified instant & persistent exchange of messages, including relevant files and communication history to enhance team collaboration

Strategy

– Focus on enhancing team collaboration and Social Business features to “blur the lines” between instant & persistent team collaboration

– Simplify the pricing and packaging

• Bring GroupWise Mobility Services & Messenger into a common versioning, administration and user provision implementation

– Identify and implement a “powered-by” plan for long term

– Build customer and partner communities and include them in definition of priorities

• Ideas Portal

• https://ideas.microfocus.com/MFI/Novell-gw

• https://ideas.microfocus.com/MFI/Novell-vibe

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Collaboration Vision and Strategy

New and Upcoming Releases

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Disclaimer: This section is about future

releases and due to market changes,

customer enhancement requests, and who

knows what else might occur this is subject

to change. This represents the future as we

know it as of September 2015.

Feature Themes:– Administration

• Web-based administration console

• REST API’s

• Active Directory support

• Advanced querying and reporting

• Delegated admin rights

• Enhanced mobile capabilities, including real-time monitoring and support for up to 750 users and 1000 devices per server

– Client

• Updated look and feel

• Options slide-out

• More convenient signatures

• Ability to make decisions on the fly

• Filing enhancements

• “Quick To” list and enhanced name completion control

GroupWise 2014Support Pack 2

Feature Themes:

– ActiveSync 14.1

• First Look: Outlook Client Limited Support

• System Address Book Photos (Cornell)

• Follow-up Flag

• Notes

– Updated Mobile Platforms

• Android 3 and 4

• iOS 5, 6, 7 and 8

• Windows Phone 7 and 8.x

• Blackberry 10x

GroupWise Mobility Serviceversion 2.1

Feature Themes:

– Mobile IM App

• iOS and Android

– Multiple Connection Support

– iOS Notification Service

– Mobile Iron

• iOS and Android

– Pin Support

• iOS and Android

Novell Messengerversion 3.0 & 3.0.1

Feature Themes:

– Usability improvements

• User Interface

• Sharing

• File upload improvements

• Desktop Application upgrade

• Mobile Apps

– Administration

• LDAP Improvements

• User, Team and Group Management

• Managing Shares

Novell Vibeversion 4

Feature Themes:

– Native Mac Clients Support via CalDAV / CardDAV

– Usability

• Pictures in the System Address Book

• Quick Tasks/Flagging

• Propose New Time on Appointments

• “Invite” to appointments In Addition to “Delegate”

• Voting

• Right Click-Paste Special Options

– Regulatory Compliant / Secure email

• 508 Certified

• SSO (Single Sign-on) options

• No Archive/No Delete on Folders and Items

GroupWise 2014R2

Feature Themes:

– Outlook 2013 Desktop Client Support

• Easier Profile Creation

• Scale and Performance

– Outlook Mobile App Support

– Additional “Flagging” Changes

• Flagging emails in Mobile Client

GroupWise Mobility Serviceversion 2014 R2

Feature Themes:

– Microsoft Office Add-in 2.0

– MariaDB Support

– Quality Improvements

– GWT Implementation of Wiki and Photo Album Folders

Novell Vibeversion 4.0.1

What’s on the Radar

• Increase release cadence in the Collaboration Portfolio

• Strengthen communities and use communities and customer data and enhancements from Ideas to drive requirements

• Focus on Social Business features that matter to our customers and deliver

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Key Objectives

Collaboration Market Opportunities

Expansion and diversity of client access including mobile

Security and compliance demands from regulated industries

Relentless attention on decreasing cost of ownership

Innovate on team collaboration and social software for business

Vibe Market Opportunities

Integrations with Filr

Stronger Vibe Connector for Two-way GroupWise Integration

Authentication improvements for stronger interoperability

Some of Our Customers

• Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to GroupWise 2014– http://www.novell.com/docrep/2014/03/top_ten_reasons_to_upgrade_to_groupwise

_2014.pdf

• GroupWise 2014 Video– http://www.novell.com/media/content/conquering-business-communication-with-

novell-groupwise-2014.html

• GroupWise Resource Library– http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/resource-library.html

• Visit IDEAS Portal and Vote!– https://ideas.microfocus.com/MFI/Novell-gw

– https://ideas.microfocus.com/MFI/Novell-vibe

Call-To-Action

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