Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Now that BYOD has finally gone mainstream in the enterprise, isn’t it time we actually use those devices?

Often, industry research questions the ROI on BYOD. While reasonable within a limited perspective, this analysis ignores cultural benefits that arise when companies offer their employees greater freedom of choice. Although pure ROI analysis is useful, creating a productive environment for employees is also essential. For this reason, any examination of BYOD that ignores employee expectations is incomplete at best.

Monday, June 3, 2013

On Enterprise Mobile:

· Identify your key mobile priorities – then create a plan to execute on them.
· Anywhere, Anytime, Anyhow – that’s how your company needs to think about enterprise content.
· Skydrive – most people don’t know about it like they do Box. Skydrive is more robust and secure.
· Business Matters most – SharePoint, Yammer, Mobile and Social are all secondary drivers.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Case in point: according to Gartner, this year for the first time, smartphone shipments will outnumber those of conventional mobile phones. Also this year, tablet shipments will rise 70% from last year, reaching almost 200 million units. What this means is that a huge number of diverse, smart mobile devices are already available for employees for work.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Mobile is hot, and harmon.ie is doing some real power delivery. Today harmon.ie launches a significant release to its desktop and mobile software including new releases for iOS and the BlackBerry 10. harmon.ie delivers new solutions that provide a simple and consistent experience in the Office with Outlook integration, on the road with a tablet, on the run with your phone, or from the web on any kiosk via the cloud.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The corporate workplace has become a diverse mobile device environment mainly driven by the growing number of mobile professionals and demand for newer devices with improved user interface, applications, speed and cool factor. Core to this demand is employee mobility and the expectation for anywhere and anytime access to information, people, applications and communications to support increased demand for productivity and customer responsiveness.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

With more organizations adopting Yammer or moving their SharePoint offering to the cloud, users need a way to seamlessly interact with colleagues and work with their SharePoint documents without going to disparate locations to perform their day-to-day tasks. This was one of the cool new capabilities that harmon.ie has implemented into their latest product release - harmon.ie 4.0 - which was released earlier today.

Among the many new features in harmon.ie Version 4.0 include:
Office 365 and SharePoint app for the Blackberry 10
Mobile security enhancements
Yammer support (Outlook and OWA only)
Document preview (Outlook only)
SkyDrive Pro integration with offline capability and synchronization
Native office web apps support on iOS (Android coming soon)
Support for Office 365 file sharing

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

"I look at BlackBerry as a provider of infrastructure for mobile computing," Cohen said. "When you look at things from this angle, given the huge need for secure infrastructure, then the position of BlackBerry can be one of total leadership, something similar to what Microsoft achieved during the switch to personal computing."

Monday, May 20, 2013

harmon.ie is a cross-platform SharePoint, Office 365, SkyDrive Pro and Yammer client. It currently supports iOS and BlackBerry 10 with Android support to follow in Q3. harmon.ie makes it easy to connect with colleagues and collaborate on projects.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

We noticed the harmon.ie announcement at BlackBerry Live 2013 for Office 365 and SharePoint coming to BB10, so we met up with the co-founder and CEO Yaacov Cohen to get a closer look. Harmon.ie sits on BES 10.1, allowing its users to access all sorts of day-to-day Office 365 information securely, as well as tapping into the SharePoint cloud collaboration service...

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Having worked a lot with harmon.ie recently at various customers and conferences around both mobile and email solutions for SharePoint, I decided to chat with one of their senior executives to give you the chance to hear about the fantastic solutions they offer, especially in their new 4.0 release, and their interesting views on mobile, collaboration, information overload, Yammer and other kinds of SharePoint integration.

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