The world of collaboration is evolving

Social and collaboration tools are finding their way into organizations through departments, corporate functions that have specialized needs, and through acquisitions.

New social and collaboration silos are developing

Silos that don’t talk to each other. Paradoxically, by adopting new social tools, companies will find it harder to share information as they create new islands of communication.

The challenge

The two key challenges that impede the adoption of enterprise social and collaboration products are:
  • 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

harmon.ie provides access to popular social and collaboration tools like Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Connections from the email client, mobile device, and the cloud. harmon.ie combines social and collaboration updates, in a meaningful and contextual way.
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.

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.

 

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).