The harmon.ie (pronounced ‘harmony’) product family brings enterprise collaboration to every business user by transforming the email client into a collaboration and social workspace, called ‘social email.’

Recent research shows that the typical business user toggles between windows 37 times an hour; that means a context switch approximately every minute and a half. With this level of distraction, it is no wonder so many business users find it hard to get work done. New collaboration platforms introduce yet one more interface, thereby exacerbating the problem. Business users, who resist changing their everyday work habits, do not use the new tools. This is why user adoption has become the biggest obstacle to enterprise collaboration.

harmon.ie solves the user adoption problem by transforming Microsoft Outlook^® and Lotus Notes^® into collaboration consoles by bringing new social and collaboration platforms (like SharePoint and Google Docs) right into the familiar email interface, thereby enabling the collaboration experience while preserving user context.

The next step in enterprise collaboration sees the intersection of social interactions with document collaboration. harmon.ie today combines these two dimensions to let typical business users follow important documents as they get updated and edited by colleagues, while at the same time seeing their social activity updates. You can easily reach out to colleagues via chat, voice, or video within the context of viewing colleague's updates or document. One window; single context.