Novell Inc. (NOVL:NASDAQ)

Novell Inc. has appointed Ales Kucera as new Director General for the Czech and Slovak Republic. Kucera was previously Executive Director for the Czech Republic and was replaced by Martin Rehorek in this position. The company has also appointed Karel Sagl new Sales Director.

Novell Inc. and SAP AG have expanded their existing global partnership to include the delivery of integrated governance, risk, and compliance(GRC) solutions. The companies are cooperating on product integration and planning to collaborate on joint go-to-market activities and alignment of strategic direction related to GRC solutions. This includes integration of GRC solutions from the SAP Business Objects portfolio with Novell security and identity products, as well as plans for joint marketing and selling of the integrated solutions to joint customers. The combination of GRC offerings from SAP and Novell-currently available and planned-will bridge the gap between business processes and IT security and controls. Together, SAP and Novell deliver to customers agility, transparency and accountability with a combined GRC offering that supports end-to-end business processes and IT environments, providing quick time-to-value with certified integration and targeted solution offerings. The result is reduced risk, lower costs and improved business performance.

Novell Inc. announced the first real-time collaboration platform for the enterprise, Novell® Pulse. Novell Pulse delivers secure, real-time social and document collaboration and implements Google Wave Federation Protocol. Novell Pulse uniquely combines e-mail, document authoring and social messaging tools with robust security and management capabilities to meet the demands of a global, dispersed workforce. By implementing the Google Wave Federation Protocol, Novell Pulse is one of the first major Wave providers. During a keynote session at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco, Novell will demonstrate the technology preview of this real-time social and document collaboration platform. Novell Pulse includes interoperability with Google Wave through the federation protocol, letting Pulse users communicate in real-time with users on any other Wave provider. Available in the first half of 2010, Novell Pulse helps drive enterprise productivity and innovation by making it easier to communicate digitally, generate ideas and share information. People continents apart can share and edit documents, jointly browse websites and have a digital conversation all in real-time. Novell Pulse leverages Novell's expertise and experience developing enterprise collaboration and communication tools, as well as industry leadership in creating strong identity and security management solutions. Available on-premises or in the cloud, Novell Pulse gives enterprises the confidence to embrace real-time collaboration technologies. Novell Pulse gives users a single interface for teaming with co-workers and partners in real-time, bringing together content from various enterprise and social applications.