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Novell prepares enterprise social networking suite

Called Pulse, it will link up with Google Wave and let employees collaborate on documents

Novell has unveiled an enterprise social networking suite that is integrated with Google's new Wave application and lets co-workers collaborate on documents.

Called Pulse, the Novell suite will also let employees set up profiles where they can publish information about their areas of expertise and share status updates and other real-time notifications of recent actions with their peers.

Novell, which will give a demo of Pulse on Wednesday at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, expects to launch it in limited beta phase in early 2010. Pulse will be released in general availability in a Web-hosted, SaaS (software-as-a-service) version before the first half of the year, and as on-premise software later on.

Pulse is among a new wave of enterprise collaboration suites that aim to bring features from popular consumer social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to the workplace, with the added security and IT management that organizations require.

Some players in this space include IBM's Lotus, Socialtext, Jive Software and NewsGator, which provides an enterprise social networking component to Microsoft's SharePoint.

The Novell suite will also be integrated with Wave, a new Google application still in limited release that combines features from e-mail, instant messaging and document collaboration.

Pulse will recognize and enforce access permissions and security policies previously established for end users by IT departments in directories and other such management systems.

The suite will also have what Novell calls a "unified inbox" where messages from a user's various systems will flow into and be consolidated.

Nominations for the 2012 ARN IT Industry Awards open on Tuesday, June 12.

More about: Facebook, Google, IBM, IBM Australia, Jive Software, Microsoft, Novell

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