Service Pack 1 for Novell Portal Services 1.0, e-business software that personalises, secures and focuses a user`s business and key relationships - is now available. Novell Portal Services removes the barriers between intranets, extranets, the Internet, and wired and wireless networks while presenting users a single, unified view to the Net.
According to Novell SE manager Jaco Burger, Novell Portal Services boosts employee productivity and enhances relationships with customers and partners by providing personalised, single-view access to files, collaboration tools, information and applications from all over the Net.
"With Novell Portal Services, users login with one-step authentication to gain browser-based access anytime, anywhere to applications and information based on their business context -- roles, identity, location, workgroups, business hierarchy and any other identifying information that exists on the Net. Ultimately, Novell Portal Services raises productivity for a mobile workforce."
Features Service Pack 1 adds to Novell Portal Services 1.0 include support for internationalisation; ease-of-use enhancements to administrative functions; and three- to four-fold performance increases in scalability, speed and user capacity.
Novell Portal Services is built on industry standards like Java, XML, HTML and LDAP, and it runs on e-business platforms such as Linux, NetWare, Solaris and Windows NT/2000. Novell Portal Services 1.0 Service Pack 1 is available for free download at http://www.novell.com/download. For additional product information, see http://www.novell.com/products/portal.
Novell, Inc is a leading provider of Net services software that secures and powers all types of networks-intranets, the Internet and extranets; corporate and public; wired to wireless-as one Net, across leading operating systems.
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