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© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 Demo Systems 2011 Portal Update What does the Demo Systems team do? The Demo Systems Team builds fully functional VMware based demos of all major products These are documented and distributed to thousands of partners and employees The Novell Online Demo System (NODS) team puts these VMs into a hosted service available to most Partners and employees

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 Demo Systems 2011 Portal Update What does the Demo Systems team do? The Novell Demo Systems Portal gives quick and easy access to: – A browsable library of the Utopia Demo Library with – complete documentation and videos for each demo – Links to download the VMs that make up the demos – Run them online or locally – Online access provided by a system called NODS – A full feature remote demonstration system – Free, shareable and live access to the VMs on our servers – An easy landing page called the Demonstration Dashboard – A choice of remote access methods including a browser

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? The 2011 portal has a new sleeker tab based interface The 2011 portal introduces many new features – Parking Lot, NODS Viewer, Bookmarks, History, Integrated support and news pages and much more

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? Welcome, News, FAQ and Support Tabs The team keeps the information flowing. The latest is published here. New demos, release details, useful links and more... Integrated with our Vibe support page.

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 6 What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? Demos Tab Here users can: Keyword search of the library See and reschedule past demos in NODS History Use, list, kill, extend, reset or park current demos Bookmark content from Flash videos to demos Use the new Parking Lot to archive or restore demos – (Limited to select US based employees at first release)

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 7 What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? Demos Tab – Find a demo and related content Put a keyword in the search box, like Collaboration and click the magnifying glass to start the search Use the green filter buttons on the right to filter by content type. Bookmark favorite content. Info buttons show more details.

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? Demos Tab – working with active demos To access demo right away, click Access to open the Demo Dashboard. Each demo gets it's own dashboard. Access the Documentation, Kill, Extend, Reset, see Advanced demo information or Park demos here

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? Demos Tab – working with active demos Reset sessions with a choice of resolutions. Easy access to documentation

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? The dashboard has everything needed to access, customize and share demos. The owner sees all of the links. Links is blue are visible to guests. Most items are editable to change their names and visibility to guests. If the demo will not be shared this page does not need to be edited.

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? Click Preview in the upper right to see the page guests will see.

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? The NODS Viewer in action

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? Other useful features of the Dashboard Upload files to share with guests. This automatically creates a presentable version in the Dashboard. Just upload, wait a few minutes for the automatic conversion and click Present. The Bulletin Board to post dial in numbers etc. Invite button sends to guests including access URLs. Stays live after the demo expires so guests can get shared content.

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? Parking Lot – Demos Tab (Limited to select US employees at launch) Archives demos to near line storage. Demos are suspended and available for future recall. Customized demos can be reused quickly and need less setup. While only available to select US employees currently, we'll work to expand it's availability as quickly as possible. Parking long term demos saves valuable NODS resources. Lowers the setup time and resources needed for customized demos while increasing system use. A classic Win-Win.

© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved What's new in the Demo Systems Portal? Conclusions New features in every aspect of the new portal, all designed to help users travel less and sell more. The best way to learn the Portal and systems like NODS is to use them. Experienced users have a much greater effectiveness. We are in constant touch with our users. We often do special setups for special sales situations and integrate what we learn back into the system. For more information visit

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