The GroupWise product team knows that collaboration often takes
place outside the boundaries of the organization chart. We hear it from
our customers: a social worker needs to talk to someone in law
enforcement; a director of economic development needs to sync up with a
corporate executive; knowledge workers in different business units or
subsidiaries need to share information, keep track of contact info, and
coordinate schedules. Often, each agency or subsidiary has its own IT
team and matching collaboration system: some use GroupWise and others
are on Exchange. Users in these different systems need to work
together, and the collaboration environments they use need to support
their work.
Sure, the GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) supports open protocols
that work with just about any system - SMTP, MIME, S/MIME, iCalendar -
so that e-mails and appointments flow freely between systems, but what
if you need an integration that's a little tighter?
Our answer for federating GroupWise and Exchange systems is the
GroupWise Exchange Gateway. It lets IT teams link their GroupWise and
Exchange systems up to share system address books, making all users
names on both systems available to everyone; route e-mail with extra
information that would be otherwise stripped using Internet protocols;
and coordinate schedules. Whether you have Exchange 5.5, 2000 or 2003,
the GroupWise Exchange Gateway can help you and your users get more
work done (stay tuned for Exchange 2007 - we'll cross that bridge when
we come to it). The Gateway runs on a Windows server with Exchange. It
links into an Exchange Server and keeps critical information on the two
systems in sync. As of December 2006, the latest GroupWise Exchange
Gateway allows users to do free/busy searches on users and resources on
the other system: GroupWise users can check availability of Exchange
users, and these can do the same with their peers on GroupWise.
To get the latest version of the Gateway, visit
http://download.novell.com.
Phillip Karren
GroupWise Product Manager
Cell: +1-801-376-1138