Novell has announced it is working with Google to enable 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. Novell Pulse 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. By implementing the Google Wave Federation Protocol, Novell Pulse is one of the first major Wave providers.

"We designed Google Wave and its open federation protocol to help people collaborate and communicate more efficiently," said Lars Rasmussen, software engineering manager for Google Wave. "We are very excited to see Novell supporting the Google Wave Federation Protocol in their innovative Novell Pulse product."

Novell demonstrated the technology during a keynote session today at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco last week. Novell Pulse includes interoperability with Google Wave through the federation protocol, letting Novell Pulse users communicate in real-time with users on any other Wave provider.

"Novell's interoperability with Google Wave is another interesting application of its new collaboration platform in supporting mixed IT environments and demonstrates Novell's strategy toward real-time, social sharing and collaboration," said Caroline Dangson, of IDC.

Pulse features include:

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.

Unified inbox: A single interface allows users to see, sort and filter all their personal and professional content from various social messaging services, email, Wave, etc. all in one place.

Enterprise social messaging: Social blog capabilities allow users to share, follow and comment on topics and ideas.

Real-time awareness and chat : Real-time awareness allows users to know exactly when their colleagues are available via people, group and message activity monitoring.

The product will be available in the first half of 2010.  Potential users are encouraged to register for an advanced preview.