Google Wave has recently gets Pulse, an integrated communication, authoring and social networking platform.
Pulse is the product of Novell which implements the Google Wave Federation Protocol to offer a real-time collaboration platform. The arrival of Pulse is rather meaningful as it allows seamless integration between the two environments.
Novell promises that it will try its best to allow Novell Pulse users and Google Wave users to seamlessly work together across both systems, one of the first major collaboration vendors to provide this interoperability. According to Novell, Pulse will 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. At this time, Novell Pulse could be seen as one of the first providers of Wave.
Novell Pulse offers the following features:
- Real-time awareness and chat : Thanks to the real-time awareness, users are able to know exactly when their colleagues are available via people, group and message activity monitoring.
- Unified inbox: Users are offered with a single interface to see, sort and filter all their personal and professional content from various social messaging services, email, Wave, etc. all in one place.
- Security: Provisioning, sign-on and permissions leverage enterprise identity and access management systems, directory servers and audit tools.
- Real-time collaboration: Collaborative editing and document sharing enables users to get work done with other users in real-time, from co-editable online documents to the ability to share and comment on traditional office documents in real time.
- Enterprise social messaging: Social blog capabilities allow users to share, follow and comment on topics and ideas.
Novell Pulse is expected to launch early in 2010.
