The engineering team worked closely with several beta sites over six
authorized beta releases to make sure that quality, functionality and
performance metrics were all considered and achieved. I join with all
of our BETA sites, internal IT department, engineers and quality
control team in announcing that Teaming 2.1 is READY for your
production deployments.
The product and a 60-day eval license are available on:
http://download.novell.com
Select "Teaming + Conferencing" as the product and select "Search." You'll see the "Teaming 2.1 60 Day Evaluation" download.
As with any rapid release development cycle, the feature set and
scope is tightly controlled in order to maintain reliability and
quality. Tracy Smith, the Novell Teaming Product Manager and Kevin
Crutchfield, the Teaming Engineering Manager have done an excellent job
in planning, designing, implementing, deploying and shipping a
practical, yet innovative set of new features, usability and
functionality.
Novell Teaming 2.1 has been deployed internally since December. Dean
Ricker, from our IT team has been very helpful in making sure that
updates were applied as soon as Thayne and our QA team gave it the
thumbs up!.
We are finding new applications for this product everyday! Our
marketing team has been using Teaming 2.1 to plan BrainShare. The
development project managers rely on Teaming to communicate core team
notes, product requirement documents, product schedules and to share
information across geographies and organizational boundaries. Novell
has over 267 GB of data in our corporate Teaming implementation with
over 2000 users last month. We also have over 160,000 entries with
about 10,000 new entries last month.
Our BETA customers come from many different segments of the market.
Education, government, retail and several partners. Many of them have
already put Teaming 2.1 into production.
Novell Teaming is a workflow-enabled team collaboration software.
Teaming offers a variety of functionality, including secure robust team
workspaces, advanced workflows, social tools and multiple, customizable
information types that allow companies to more effectively manage and
find their information assets. Out-of-the-box Teaming includes support
for file sharing (hundreds of formats supported), versioning, secure
search, wikis, blogs, discussion forums, team calendars, tasks,
milestones, photo albums and surveys. Also available out of the box is
the ability to completely customize the information types to the unique
needs of an organization.
How customers use Teaming varies greatly but the top uses can be summarized into 4 areas:
1. Knowledge Repository
2. Document Management
3. Project Collaboration
4. Process Automation
For Users
1. New Mobile UI: Access teaming conveniently through your web-enabled phone.
2. Graphical Landing Page Editor: Creating a powerful and user-friendly landing page has become even easier.
3. Teaming Feeds: Provides you with a constantly updating view of what is happening in your Teaming system
4. Calendar and Tasks: Differentiating between which calendar events or tasks belong to you has become much more simple.
5. Undelete and Purge: Quickly purge or recover deleted information with your dynamic trash bin.
For Administrators and Partners
1. Workspace Import and Export: Easily move workspaces and information between Teaming systems.
2. User Data Quota: Limit the amount of file storage assigned to each user.
3. Extension Administration: For those who are extending the capabilities of Teaming.
In addition, we have a new Teaming partner, SEP, that will announce
a new online back up solution and its availability early next week.
Watch for that announcement and you can find more about SEP from their
web site at
http://sepusa.com and for Europe
http://sepde.com.
Thanks,
Dean
Announcing general availability of Novell Teaming 2.1. You can now
download, upgrade and roll out the very latest version of Novell
Teaming. Since Teaming 2.0 released last July, the engineering team has
put together an exciting update to this piece of our collaboration
portfolio.