The world of collaboration is evolving
New social and collaboration silos are developing
The challenge
- Creating universal and uniform access from wherever business users spend their workday.
- Aggregating disparate activity streams and updates into a single contextual and coherent view of what is happening within the company.
The solution
With harmon.ie, business users can follow updates wherever they are… at the office, on the road, or in the cloud...
What makes harmon.ie unique
Universal Access
harmon.ie products
All harmon.ie products provide an identical user experience, making it easy to co-author documents at work and then follow them while on the road. Reaching out to colleagues is done the same easy way, no matter where you are.
Multiple platform support
Ensuring a uniform user experience, support for new platforms is assured because of harmon.ie’s use of portable technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Phone Gap, or other web integration layer that guarantee a single code base across all platforms.
harmon.ie for SharePoint
Available on the desktop, as an Outlook or Lotus Notes sidebar, and as a mobile app for iPad or iPhone.
In the cloud
As cloud-based access to email evolves, harmon.ie will provide the same intuitive interface as always.
Aggregating multiple collaboration sources
harmon.ie’s social aggregation collects updates from multiple collaboration source, such as Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Connections, and Newsgator to create a coherent set of updates, organized by person and by topic.
Reaching out to colleagues is easy with harmon.ie, since the updates from multiple tools are available in the same window.
For example, when working on a SharePoint document, it is easy to contact a colleague via instant messaging.
Lync ‘presence awareness’ in the harmon.ie window lets workers know who is online; connecting with them is as easy as clicking on the presence indicator.
One window, no pane (pain).



Social Aggregation
Activity streams
Activity streams are becoming increasingly popular in the enterprise. Following a stream is like watching a Twitter feed; it is often a collection of unrelated updates.
Multiply this feed by the number of collaboration products that produce activity stream in your organization, and workers will be overwhelmed by information overload.
Now, add in the multitude of products that you use to communicate with colleagues, such as email, instant messaging, voice over IP, video conferencing, microblogging and others, and it’s easy to see why people will continue to prefer email for communicating with colleagues. That is why it is important to aggregate information sources; so users can see one coherent stream of updates.