websterworld
01-30-2004, 09:28 AM
challenge:
Novell has a global workforce of 6,000 employees who need access to an enormous amount of corporate resources: company directory, policies and procedures, HR forms, benefits information, online training, sales tools and more. Many employees travel frequently and need access to these resources from a branch office, an airport kiosk, home or customer site.
In the past, Novell had multiple intranets—some for individual groups and departments, and others as the result of acquisitions. Some of the sites offered static information and others provided access to various applications, making it difficult for employees to know where to go for information. Managing multiple servers for these sites was also proving both costly and inefficient. The IT staff and other groups were spending hundreds of hours updating individual sites with duplicate information.
Maintaining a security infrastructure for each intranet site also created excessive administrative work, as well as potential security risks. Employees had to remember multiple passwords and often wrote them on sticky notes attached to their computers, compromising corporate security.
Novell wanted to consolidate its corporate resources to a single employee portal and provide secure access to all employees anytime, anywhere and from any machine. By creating a single security infrastructure, as well as empowering business users to make Web content changes, the company could free up its IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects.
solution:
To create and secure its new "innerweb," Novell used a combination of Nterprise, Nsure and exteNd solutions—including Novell NetWare® (ships with Novell eDirectory ™, Novell eGuide, Novell iFolder® and iPrint), Novell DirXML®, Novell iChain®, Novell exteNd and Novell GroupWise®—as well as the SUSE* Linux operating system. A team of employees from IT, Marketing and Sales worked together on the project.
Novell iChain provides the front-end security to all applications such as Oracle*, PeopleSoft*, and Siebel*, giving employees access with a single sign-on.
Novell began by using Novell exteNd to create a dynamic portal environment to give employees easy access to Web applications. The employee portal integrates with Novell eDirectory, which stores all user information and authenticates users based on identity. Novell DirXML synchronizes identity information throughout enterprise applications, eliminating manual updating.
Novell iChain provides the front-end security to all applications such as Oracle*, PeopleSoft*, and Siebel*, giving employees access with a single sign-on. iChain also establishes secure access from outside the company firewall, allowing employees to access the portal without a VPN connection while safeguarding company security.
Flash Demo: http://www.novell.com/innerweb/
All I can say is wow.
Novell has a global workforce of 6,000 employees who need access to an enormous amount of corporate resources: company directory, policies and procedures, HR forms, benefits information, online training, sales tools and more. Many employees travel frequently and need access to these resources from a branch office, an airport kiosk, home or customer site.
In the past, Novell had multiple intranets—some for individual groups and departments, and others as the result of acquisitions. Some of the sites offered static information and others provided access to various applications, making it difficult for employees to know where to go for information. Managing multiple servers for these sites was also proving both costly and inefficient. The IT staff and other groups were spending hundreds of hours updating individual sites with duplicate information.
Maintaining a security infrastructure for each intranet site also created excessive administrative work, as well as potential security risks. Employees had to remember multiple passwords and often wrote them on sticky notes attached to their computers, compromising corporate security.
Novell wanted to consolidate its corporate resources to a single employee portal and provide secure access to all employees anytime, anywhere and from any machine. By creating a single security infrastructure, as well as empowering business users to make Web content changes, the company could free up its IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects.
solution:
To create and secure its new "innerweb," Novell used a combination of Nterprise, Nsure and exteNd solutions—including Novell NetWare® (ships with Novell eDirectory ™, Novell eGuide, Novell iFolder® and iPrint), Novell DirXML®, Novell iChain®, Novell exteNd and Novell GroupWise®—as well as the SUSE* Linux operating system. A team of employees from IT, Marketing and Sales worked together on the project.
Novell iChain provides the front-end security to all applications such as Oracle*, PeopleSoft*, and Siebel*, giving employees access with a single sign-on.
Novell began by using Novell exteNd to create a dynamic portal environment to give employees easy access to Web applications. The employee portal integrates with Novell eDirectory, which stores all user information and authenticates users based on identity. Novell DirXML synchronizes identity information throughout enterprise applications, eliminating manual updating.
Novell iChain provides the front-end security to all applications such as Oracle*, PeopleSoft*, and Siebel*, giving employees access with a single sign-on. iChain also establishes secure access from outside the company firewall, allowing employees to access the portal without a VPN connection while safeguarding company security.
Flash Demo: http://www.novell.com/innerweb/
All I can say is wow.