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EMEA Tour on Thursday July 3
The Open Horizons EMEA Tour 2008 (formerly GroupWiseR EMEA Tour) will be
organized again in 2008 by GUG-SA, Novell and the international GroupWiseR initiative. On Thursday July 3 we will offer a very interesting day about how Novell can help you to improve your business using solutions like Novell Teaming + Conferencing and GroupWise. As a follow up, you might also be interested to join us for Hands-On Labs at the South African Summit or any of our other Regional Summits. You can read more about this interesting day at this page. |
Novell Delivers the Widest Range of Collaboration Solutions on Any Platform
Working together in teams is getting more and more
important for organizations of all sizes in a global economy as more
and more people wrestle to keep the daily information flow under
control.
Novell has added many exciting new features to the upcoming release of
GroupWise, which is code-named "Bonsai" and is scheduled to ship later this year. This allows you and your users to manage their work/life
responsibilities and commitments even better. For example, you can
easily create multiple calendars and then selectively publish them
externally or subscribe to the calendars of other people or projects.
This new version of GroupWise will also offer state-of-the-art contact
management and many more large and small enhancements to improve
end-user personal productivity and ease IT management. Furthermore,
the new GroupWise client will be available for all leading desktop
operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac, and hundreds of
mobile devices. The WebAccess client has also been improved
dramatically.
Last year Novell added Teaming + Conferencing to its workgroup
portfolio, with all the collaboration tools distributed and project
teams might need: workspaces, project spaces, enterprise social
software, workflow automation, white-boarding, presence, chat and much
more. Teaming + Conferencing can connect to many other operating,
messaging and office productivity systems. For example, you can easily
enrich personal productivity by leveraging the built-in integrations between Teaming + Conferencing and GroupWise. This allows you to add a
team calendar in GroupWise, for example, and from within GroupWise you
can access a number of Teaming portlets. And this new solution is
platform independent, leverages open standards for greater
interoperability and is based on the ICECore open source project, a
number of key factors for success.
All in all, with GroupWise and Teaming + Conferencing Novell takes the
lead with regard to personal and team productivity. And we will
certainly show you how to become even more effective and efficient
during our events. |
| Registration
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Registration is handled by GroupWiseR in cooperation with GUG-SA, a local group of GroupWise enthusiasts in
South Africa.
Contact information:
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Innovation Hub
Mark Shuttleworth Street
Pretoria, South Africa
T +27-12-844-0038
Click here for a route description to the Innovation Hub |  |
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8:30 | Registration & Coffee |
Thursday July 3
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| | 9:00 |
Welcome &
Introduction | Cobus
Burgers | |
| | 9:15 | Keynote - The
Future of
Collaboration | Alex Evans (Novell) | |
| | 10:15 | Coffee & Meet
the Partners |
| | 10:45 | Making Your Business
BUZZ with Teaming & Conferencing | Jeff Royle (Novell)
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| | 11:30 | GroupWise Mobile Server on Linux - What's new? | Christian Reeve |
| | 12:15 | Lunch & Meet the Partners |
| | 13:15 | Beyond E-mail - Be more productive with your BlackBerry | RIM/Blackberry |
| | 13:35 | Make Teams really
effective with Teaming + Conferencing (including Customer Case Teaming
+ Conferencing) | Johan van Zyl |
| | 14:30 | Clustering GroupWise on Any Platform | Hendrik de Bruin &
Christian Reeve |
| | 15:30 | Tea & Meet the Partners |
| | 15:45 | Why GroupWise Bonsai will make a Big
Difference | Cobus Burgers &
Erno de Korte |
| | 16:15 | Comparing Apples With Pears - GroupWise v.s. Exchange | Cobus
Burgers |
| | 16:45 | Closing, drinks & more |
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Bonus Session - As ZENworks super-star Ron van Herk will visit South Africa for the African Summit, he will discuss the latest version of the ZEN suite in this special bonus session. As Ron is one of Novell's support engineers he will have a lot of practical information to share as well. Join this free bonus session to learn more about this great solution. These free bonus sessions are very popular in many other countries already, it will be worth to stay a little bit longer. | |
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A growing number of partners have
recognized the strengths of GroupWise, ZENworks and
other Novell solutions. They add value with solutions
for Anti-Virus/SPAM, Development Tools, Archiving and
much more. Together with you these partners make the
Novell community one of the most interesting and lively
in the market. Click here to find
out more about these partners. |
| The speakers on
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| Alex Evans |
 Alex Evans has been with Novell for over 8 years,
starting his career in the European Support Center in Rotterdam, the
Netherlands. After 6 years supporting European GroupWise customers he moved to
Provo, Utah, continuing in his role as a GroupWise Support Engineer and
accepting the additional role of Development Liaison, working very closely with
the GroupWise development team. Alex worked briefly as a PSE for 4 of Novell´s
larger customers before becoming a GroupWise Product Manager. Alex is also a regular blogger on Novell CoolBlogs. |
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| Christrian Reeve |
 Christian has been working with a wide variety of technology in the IT industry since the late 90´s. A special focus on Novell products as well as various open source technology has enabled him to become a consultant specializing in this field. He has designed and implemented solutions that have used a range Novell technology including Clustering, XEN, OES and GroupWise. Christian has been the technical leader for several large Linux migration projects both locally and elsewhere on the African continent. |
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| Cobus Burgers |
 Cobus Burgers has been involved with GroupWise support
since 1992 in the days of WordPerfect Office. With 14 years of experience on GroupWise he´s still going
strong and he has been involved with most GroupWise deployments in South
Africa. Today he runs his own
consultancy company that specialises in large scale GroupWise deployment
and support, including custom build GroupWise document management
solutions. His company NetCB has a team of
GroupWise specialists who service about 200
000 GroupWise users in South Africa and most of the document management implementations
on GroupWise have been implemented by this team.
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| Erno de Korte - the Netherlands |
 Erno has been a speaker on many conferences like BrainShare, GroupWise
Summits and NUI events. He has a special interest in products
integrating GroupWise with PDA's. Erno has written many articles
for several magazines. for example the GroupWise Advisor Magazine. He
has also been one of two writers of the Novell Press "GroupWise
7.0 Administrator Solution Guide" and the lead author of the
"GroupWise Powerguide". | |
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| Hendrik de Bruin |
 Hendrik is currently Director of Enterprise Support Services, prior to joining NetCB Solutions Hendrik was the Technical Services Manager of two other Novell Business Expert Partners within South Africa. Hendrik has been involved in some of the country´s largest Identity Management, GroupWise, ZENworks, Linux and eDirectory deployments, either during the technical implementation, the design or the project management phases, one of these projects include the largest NetWare to Linux migration in the EMEA. Hendrik has been deeply involved with Novell technologies for the past 7 Years, and has presented at various other technology conferences such as Novell Brainshare.
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| Jeff Royle |  Jeff, originally from South Africa, has over 15 years experience of providing IT solutions to large organisations in, the UK, EMEA and Asia. He headed up SiteScape sales and operations throughout EMEA and AsiaPAC and joined Novell as part of the acquisition. Jeff has been a regular speaker at a variety of events and has held a number of key positions within the CRM and Contact Centre technology market. He is currently Collaboration Sales Director for Teaming + Conferencing within EMEA helping partners and customers gain significant benefit by implementing and using Novell Teaming + Conferencing solutions. His responsibilities include driving Novell Teaming + Conferencing business forward by ensuring that T+C is effectively mapped to the business needs of their clients. |
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| Johan van Zyl |
 Johan started his programming career in his first year at University in 2002 while doing his Bachelors in Information Technology. After completing his degree in 2005, he enrolled for his Masters degree in Information Technology at the University of Pretoria. Johan is actively involved in GroupWise development and has led the NetCB developer team in completing a comprehensive GroupWise and Documentum DMS integration. He has since been leading the project on GroupWise DMS SOAP development on the Linux desktop. |
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Ron van Herk
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 Ron is one of the Worldwide Support Engineers dedicated to support ZENworks, he is working out of the Novell European Services Center in the Netherlands. As a Worldwide Support Engineer he is the interface between the Support organization and the ZENworks engineering teams. Ron has been dedicated to supporting ZENworks over the last seven years and speaks at many conferences and events including BrainShare, BrainStormer, GWAVAcon and many others. Ron also blogs at Novell Coolblogs ( www.novell.com/communities/node/4133 )
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