E-business partners can directly communicate with, and update each others' directories.
Suppliers can immediately know when and how much to ship.
Changes in airline reservations can automatically alert hotel and car rental reservations systems. Crucial market data can be collected at Internet speeds. With this information you can tailor your customers' business experiences such as what they see on a Web page to cultivate a loyalty to your company that will continue as your business changes and expands. A directory-enabled solution to create a seamless unified network from heterogeneous systems. Novell Account Management integrates Windows NT, Sun Solaris, and Linux user management functions into NDS eDirectory so that you can easily and inexpensively manage a network comprised of multiple platforms and operating systems.