Novell - Management and Organization

Management and Organization

Novell is organized into product development, sales, and services divisions with the following executive management team:

  • Bob Flynn – President and General Manager
  • Dave Wilkes — Vice President of Engineering
  • Eric Varness — Vice President, Product Management and Marketing
  • Juan Carlos Cerrutti — Vice President of North America Sales
  • Dirk W. Schmidt — Vice President of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Sales
  • Boris Ivancic — Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific
  • Edwin Bowman — General Manager, Latin America
  • John Delk — Vice President, Channel and Alliances
  • Katherine Tate — Vice President, Global Sales Operations
  • Ron Milton — Vice President, Customer Value Realization (Services and Support — including the SUSE and NetIQ business units)

Novell products are organized into three categories:

Collaboration – The focus of this product group helps people connect with each other and work together. These products helps boost a customer's employee productivity, as individuals and teams. These collaboration offerings include:

  • Email, calendaring, contact management and task management
  • Team workspaces with doc management, workflows, and social streams
  • Mobile access:

Endpoint Management – The focus of this product group is to give customer's employees what they need to do their work, regardless of physical location. This group of products allows an IT staff can give the proper working environment to each person, and keep it updated remotely using a unified management console, device agent and database. The goal of these application, configuration, and endpoint security management products, make sure everyone's devices are:

  • Patched
  • Compliant
  • Secure
  • Properly equipped

File & Networking Services – These products provide core file, print, and networking services. They offer a platform for networking in a mixed Windows/Linux/Mac environment. This group of products helps:

  • Control and automate file storage
  • Simplify network management
  • Enable users to install printers easily
  • Automate disaster recovery of key business systems

In addition to products, Novell also provides support, training, consulting and other services to its customers.

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