Extending GroupWise with Advansys Technologies

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Extending GroupWisewith Advansys Technologies

• Gregory Bell
• CEO, Advansys

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Who are we?

• GroupWise Solutions Company
• Advansys incorporated in 1989
• Over 12 years GroupWise third party development
  experience
• Export to more than 26 countries
• 85 export sales
• Novell Technology Partner
• Speak regularly at GroupWise events

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Session Objective

• Stimulate ideas
• You will be able to say
• GroupWise can do much more!

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FormativGroupWise Client Extender
Run
Create
Manage
GroupWise Solutions
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Key Features

• Wide range of 'Off-the-shelf' solutions
• Integrated rapid application development tool
• Powerful GroupWise Client extensions
• Scalable solutions framework
• Add and maintain any number of solutions
• eDirectory enabled for fast, secure solution
  deployment
• Resource efficient

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Key Benefits

• Easy
• to extend GroupWise
• Opportunity
• to respond quickly to business needs
• Integrate
• with existing corporate applications
• Flexibility
• to add and manage solutions in a rapid,
  cost-effective manner
• Maximize
• the power of your GroupWise investment

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Formativ is aCross-Industry Solution
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Extend with'Off-the-shelf' Solutions
End Users
GroupWise Client
Formativ Runtime
Run Solutions
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Extend with'Off-the-shelf' Solutions

• Filing Assistant
• Enterprise Proxy
• Enterprise Calendar Dates
• Message Saver Pack
• Presentation Pack
• Calendar Pack
• Productivity Pack
• Stationery
• Templates

• Word Mail Merge
• Message Notes
• Multiple Signatures
• Out of the Office
• Day Blocker
• Portals
• Publish Message List
• Reply Quoter
• Remote Image Inserter
• Many more...

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Extend withCustom Solutions
Developers
GroupWise Client
Formativ Creator
Create Solutions
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Extend withGroupWise Cool Solutions

• MailXplorer
• Mark All Read
• Firefox Bookmarks
• Emoticons for GroupWise
• Delete Attachments
• Print Message
• Export to Excel
• Remind Me
• Attachment Checker

• Outlook Migration Pack
• Outlook Reply
• Today View
• iCal (iCalendar) Solution
• Send Welcome Message
• Mailbox View
• Insert Attachment List
• Conditions of Use
• Many more... over 60!

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Extend withSecure Administration
Administrators
GroupWise Client
Formativ Studio
Manage Solutions
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Formativ Architecture
GroupWise Windows Client
Formativ Runtime
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Novell eDirectory
Local Workstation
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Types of Customization

• Application/system integration
• Business process automation
• GroupWise Client enhancements
• Trusted application enterprise solutions
• Research new custom solutions quickly and easily
• Contact Advansys Custom Development Partners

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Specialized Solutions

• Filing Assistant
• On-demand Message Export
• Message Saver Pack
• On-demand Mailbox Export
• Archive To Go

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Filing Assistant

• Who receives email?
• Who files email in GroupWise folders?

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Filing Assistant

• File messages quickly
• Find GroupWise folders easily
• Adapts to the way you work
• Works with QuickFinder view
• Saves time, money and makes life easier

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On-Demand Message Export

• Portability
• GroupWise not required to access exported
  messages
• User Focus
• User selects messages for export
• Applications
• Collation
• Store GroupWise messages with related and project
  files
• Sharing
• Store GroupWise messages on the network or
  portable media
• Integration
• Import GroupWise messages into other applications

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Exporting Messages to Disk
GroupWise Client
AdvansysMessage Saver
AdvansysPortable Message
AdvansysMessage Viewer(FREE)
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On-Demand Mailbox Export

• Employees departing
• Public information distribution
• Special archives
• Inactive accounts
• Mailbox snapshots
• Additional backup
• Reduce storage
• Legal discovery

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Exporting a GroupWise Mailbox
GroupWise Client
Archive To Go Creator
Portable Archive
Archive To Go Viewer
Archive To Go Indexer
Archive To Go Finder
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Customer Success

• Most importantly, not only are we satisfied but
  our departing Members and staff think it is
  fantastic.
• Louise Hanna
• Network Architect and Senior Administrator
• Information Technology Services Department
• New South Wales Parliament
• Full Success Story
• www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16891.html

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GWAVA Product Integrationwith Archive To Go

• GWAVA Reload
• Native GroupWise backup with on-demand mailbox
  export
• GWAVA Reveal
• On-demand mailbox export
• On-demand message export
• GWAVA Redline
• Real-time logging and reporting for Archive To Go

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Restoring Exported Messages
AdvansysMessage Restorer
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Platform Support

• GroupWise Windows Client
• GroupWise 5.5.x
• GroupWise 6.0.x
• GroupWise 6.5.x
• GroupWise 7.0.2
• Bonsai and beyond
• GroupWise Server
• NetWare
• Linux
• Windows
• Note Formativ is client based and does not run
  on the server

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Formativ Roadmap

• Formativ Framework for .NET
• Framework of native .NET assemblies
• Message Saver Component
• Message Saver Pack, Archive To Go, DMS
  Integration
• Portable Message Converter HTML, PST
• Formativ 2.0 can use COM enabled framework
  components
• New components (Formativ Extensions)
• GroupWise SOAP Integration
• New Bonsai APIs

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Formativ Resources

• Formativ Home Page
• http//www.advansys.info/formativ.htm
• Formativ Solutions Page
• http//www.advansys.info/formativ_solutions.htm
• Formativ Applet Central (GroupWise Cool
  Solutions)
• http//www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/9485.h
  tml
• Advansys Support Forums
• http//advansys.atinfopop.com
• Advansys Sales Custom Development Partners
• http//www.advansys.info/resellers_formativ.htm

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For trial software andmore information
visitwww.advansyscorp.comor your Advansys
Reseller
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Extending GroupWisewith Advansys Technologies

• Thank You!
• Questions?