Pulse will also feature a unified inbox, as well as integration with Google's Wave application, which combines features from e-mail, instant messaging and document collaboration.

Like similar products from IBM, Microsoft, Socialtext, NewsGator, Jive Software and others, Pulse aims to adapt popular Web 2.0 services and applications, like microblogging and social networking, to a workplace setting for collaboration.

Novell plans to offer Pulse both as a cloud-based SaaS (software-as-a-service) suite and as on-premise packaged software.