Novell Vibe Cloud is a secure social collaboration environment that helps people work together more efficiently—inside or outside the organization

Working together to seize opportunities and solve problems is what successful organizations are all about. Many enterprises, however, struggle to work smoothly across time zones and continents with employees and external partners. Even more frustrating, colleagues may be missing out on the next big idea or a quick answer to a tough problem, simply because of where they work, or the team they are on.

Novell Vibe Cloud offers an exciting and more effective way to work. Our online collaboration solution combines real-time collaboration, social messaging and content sharing into one intuitive application. Now you can break through physical and organizational boundaries to form cross-functional teams that produce better results. Plus, you can extend enterprise social messaging and online collaboration to your partners while following your organization’s security policies.


Novell Vibe online collaboration capabilities include:

  • Real-time co-creation and co-editing: With Novell Vibe, people in your organization can author and edit online documents together, character by character, in real time. Teams can dramatically accelerate the completion of projects that used to take weeks. Because collaboration unfolds in a shared workspace, no one has to manually merge content from multiple contributors to create a unified, finished document.
  • Enterprise social messaging: As easy to use as Facebook or Twitter, Novell Vibe consolidates direct messages, chat, blogs and wikis from within Novell Vibe into one message stream. Creating new groups and inviting members from inside or outside your organization is as simple as sending an e-mail. You can even jumpstart ad-hoc conversations in seconds to tackle projects that can’t wait.
  • File synchronization and management: Files on your desktop, regardless of authoring application, can be synchronized to the Novell Vibe file repository based in the cloud. As a result, users always work with the latest versions of important files on their desktops and in Novell Vibe Cloud.
  • The Novell Vibe unified message stream: Direct messages, social feeds and group conversations from within Novell Vibe are unified in one intuitive interface. This eliminates the need to constantly switch between locations to see all your content. Using powerful filtering, sorting and tagging capabilities, you can determine exactly what you want to see and whom you want to follow.
  • Advanced information management: Novell Vibe keeps a persistent record of all your work and conversations. Its comprehensive search function quickly locates files, messages, attachments, groups and people to save time and boost productivity.

Novell Vibe Cloud is enterprise social software that combines business collaboration, content sharing and social messaging into one familiar, easy-to-use interface

Every day, people wrestle with multiple applications that are supposed to boost productivity but don’t work well together or keep pace with the ad-hoc nature of the work environment. Switching between complex tools, users are forced to call the helpdesk to reset passwords, change file permissions and address other technical problems. They often resort to e-mail, which slows the pace of progress because it isn’t designed to help us actually work together. In addition, working with so many applications can cause information overload, grinding creative problem-solving and decision-making to a halt. Business collaboration becomes an oxymoron as teams struggle to communicate.

What you need is enterprise social software that can take business collaboration to a new level. Novell Vibe Cloud is a single “work together” environment that incorporates social connections in the context of work spaces, files, and real-time co-editing tools—all with built-in security and control. It’s as easy to use as Facebook but designed for people who want to get their work done better and faster with others across groups and companies.

Novell Vibe Cloud is intuitively organized and simple to learn. Contacts and groups are displayed in a common panel and sorted by user priorities. The central Novell Vibe window serves as the collaboration hub that lets you co-create and co-edit documents and displays conversations with your colleagues in real time. Using advanced filtering, sorting and tagging, you control which messages, content and workspaces you want to see and whom you want to follow.

To get the most out of using Novell Vibe Cloud, you create a dynamic profile to include the information you want to share with others. Your listing is searchable publicly, while richer information is open to others in your organization or network. As a result, you can pinpoint experts with the knowledge or skills you need—even if you were previously unaware of them or their qualifications.

Additionally, users can join groups, co-author documents and exchange messages as soon as they join the Novell Vibe Cloud system. No training is needed, and no one wastes their time waiting for IT to grant them access permissions.


Your workforce is used to personal social software like Facebook and instant messaging. They won’t use any kind of enterprise social software if it’s awkward or hard to use. Novell Vibe is simple to use and easily lets people:

  • Co-create digital content, including topic-focused conversations, that they can keep private or allow others to browse, view and search online.
  • Keep up to date with a “virtual water cooler” experience that features real-time alerts, suggestions and awareness.
  • Create ad-hoc workspaces across physical and organizational boundaries while also ensuring security and compliance.
  • Analyze and solve problems in real time.
  • Participate in social messaging for business that’s as easy to use as Facebook or Twitter.
  • Manage important content via file sharing, automatic file backup and intelligent document versioning.

 

How can you use the enterprise social software features of Novell Vibe Cloud to achieve results faster?

Imagine you are in the final stage of trying to land new business but face two tough competitors. You have one more presentation to make your case and could benefit from the wisdom of a colleague who has sold to a similar company before. Using Novell Vibe Cloud, you visit the Global Sales group and post a request for advice. Everyone following the Global Sales group sees your message.

A colleague in the U.S. replies and recommends contacting another group member in Europe who recently faced a similar challenge and succeeded. With Novell Vibe Cloud, you search for your overseas colleague, who responds to your questions and sends you the slides that helped him close the deal.

By adding persuasive content from your colleague’s presentation to your own, you improve your pitch dramatically and land the account. Afterwards, you and your colleague tag your files and conversations with details and relevant keywords that will help other salespeople in your organization beat the competition in the future. Business social collaboration at its finest!

Make sure you always work with the latest versions of your files. Every version of your file is stored safely in the cloud

Popular application suites, from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice, and document standards, such as Adobe PDF, are familiar, powerful and easy to use. What they can’t guarantee, however, is that your critical sales presentations and quarterly earnings reports are up to date and easy to share. Desktop-to-cloud file synchronization from Novell Vibe Cloud ensures the latest versions of your files are always readily available for you and people you work with.

It doesn’t matter which application you, your partners or your contractors use to create a document, presentation, spreadsheet or other content. Simply click a file on your desktop, then drag-and-drop it into a Novell Vibe Cloud group folder. Novell Vibe does the rest, uploading the file to the cloud-based repository and storing it in its native application format. Additionally, the latest version of your file is available on your desktop for offline editing.

Instant file sync lets everyone with appropriate permissions in Novell Vibe access the same version of the file. When you download a file from the repository, it’s guaranteed to be the latest version. Plus, it retains the full functionality and formatting of the third-party application in which it was created.


Desktop-to-cloud file synchronization from Novell Vibe boosts efficiency with benefits like these:

  • Employees and external partners can continue to use their favorite authoring applications to remain productive.
  • Frantically searching the desktop or file systems for up-to-date versions is never necessary.
  • You can manage documents with powerful capabilities such as file locking and tagging for rapid search and organizing files by ad-hoc groups, each with its own access permissions.
  • You can view synchronized files right from your web browser for easy access.
  • All files are indexed, making them instantly and fully searchable.
  • The cloud-based repository preserves critical content securely and offsite.
  • Because Novell Vibe integrates with existing directories and identity and access systems, managing file permissions is easy, safeguarding the integrity of your content.

Make sure you always work with the latest versions of your files. Every version of your file is stored safely in the cloud

Popular application suites, from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice, and document standards, such as Adobe PDF, are familiar, powerful and easy to use. What they can’t guarantee, however, is that your critical sales presentations and quarterly earnings reports are up to date and easy to share. Desktop-to-cloud file synchronization from Novell Vibe Cloud ensures the latest versions of your files are always readily available for you and people you work with.

It doesn’t matter which application you, your partners or your contractors use to create a document, presentation, spreadsheet or other content. Simply click a file on your desktop, then drag-and-drop it into a Novell Vibe Cloud group folder. Novell Vibe does the rest, uploading the file to the cloud-based repository and storing it in its native application format. Additionally, the latest version of your file is available on your desktop for offline editing.

Instant file sync lets everyone with appropriate permissions in Novell Vibe access the same version of the file. When you download a file from the repository, it’s guaranteed to be the latest version. Plus, it retains the full functionality and formatting of the third-party application in which it was created.


Desktop-to-cloud file synchronization from Novell Vibe boosts efficiency with benefits like these:

  • Employees and external partners can continue to use their favorite authoring applications to remain productive.
  • Frantically searching the desktop or file systems for up-to-date versions is never necessary.
  • You can manage documents with powerful capabilities such as file locking and tagging for rapid search and organizing files by ad-hoc groups, each with its own access permissions.
  • You can view synchronized files right from your web browser for easy access.
  • All files are indexed, making them instantly and fully searchable.
  • The cloud-based repository preserves critical content securely and offsite.
  • Because Novell Vibe integrates with existing directories and identity and access systems, managing file permissions is easy, safeguarding the integrity of your content.

Because Novell Vibe is cloud-based, you avoid expensive implementation, systems integration, maintenance and support

Managing social tools and shared files at the enterprise level shouldn’t be a costly nightmare for your IT department. That’s why we introduced Novell Vibe as a cloud-based service. Your IT team is spared from a massive deployment effort and the never-ending expenses of systems upgrades and ongoing maintenance.

With its SaaS delivery model, Novell Vibe Cloud requires no additional hardware or software and works with all major operating platforms and in mixed environments. It also integrates easily and seamlessly with your existing security systems and directories via the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol.

Your IT people can focus on new business initiatives because Novell Vibe Cloud is “self-service” easy for end users. Without the need to call IT, users can create dynamic user and group profiles and form ad-hoc groups and workspaces to tackle critical, time-sensitive projects.

All your people need to work with Novell Vibe Cloud is a reliable Internet connection. As your enterprise grows, scaling is inexpensive and effortless because you never have to buy additional software licenses or deploy new servers. With Novell Vibe, you invest in your people and their productivity instead of mortgaging your future to buy and support expensive new technologies.

Social networking tools have revolutionized how people communicate and share ideas in their personal lives.

Now people want to bring this interactive experience to the workplace, changing how they do business together and with customers and partners. (In fact, they already may be doing this under the radar of IT, threatening enterprise security by exposing intellectual property, financial data and other sensitive information.)

The prospect of integrating social networking into the enterprise is exciting, but you need much more than the social capabilities offered by consumer tools to boost efficiency and achieve business results. An effective enterprise solution must let people engage in better, faster and more dynamic interactions. This holistic, “work together don’t just chat” environment is the idea behind Novell Vibe Cloud.

Novell Vibe Cloud places social messaging in the context of “work together” tools. Our solution marries social messaging with real-time co-authoring and communication, third-party file management and sharing, and dynamic personal and group profiles. These capabilities give people across organizations an “always-live” destination where all relevant interactions come together in an easy-to-consume catalog of activities and information.

With Novell Vibe Cloud, your people stay informed without jumping from one application to another. Now they can generate higher-quality ideas with the right experts—and arrive at well-informed group decisions and outcomes faster than ever.

Additionally, Novell Vibe lets organizations harness the functionality of the new tools people love without the inherent security risks. Unlike popular consumer social applications, our solution lets your IT team centrally manage access controls according to enterprise security policies. At the same time, Novell grants people the freedom to form new workspaces and groups so they can create and exchange knowledge safely and in real time—even across organizational boundaries.

Novell Vibe Cloud is backed by more than two decades of experience helping some of the world’s largest businesses achieve rock-solid enterprise security and regulatory compliance. It uses your organization’s identity and access management systems and directory structures using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol. (This ensures authentication for employees, partners and contractors.) Flexible access-level controls for tools and content allow swarming and crowd-sourcing through ad-hoc workspaces while also providing fine-grained management capabilities at the user, group and organizational levels.

As you would expect, Novell Vibe is enterprise-class and enterprise-secure. It safeguards all your conversations and content, and empowers people to work how they want—together and in real time

Are you considering Novell Vibe™ software for your organizaton? Let the Kifinti Solutions expert team help you. We can leverage our many successful implementations to help make your project a success. Ask about a free product evaluation.