“Anyone who's a heavy user of both Google Docs and Outlook will want to download harmon.ie for Google Docs right away.”

“Email will evolve into ‘social email,’ which is a console that integrates best of breed collaboration tools.”

“Google and Microsoft may be at war, but that doesn't mean you have to be a victim. For anyone who uses both Outlook and Google Docs, harmon.ie for Google Docs is a handy tool.”

“Those of us who live on the edge of the technology easily adopt modern tools even before they enter the beta stage. But if we peep outside the Silicon Valley technology bubble, we will see many people still using Microsoft Outlook religiously."

“Email is an important component which needs to evolve. So the question is not so much how email will die, but how it will evolve and change in order to adapt to this new world of social interaction..."

“People are drowning in digital overload. According to a New York Times/CBS poll, we’re switching applications 37 times an hour! Too much information and too many useful-but-disjointed tools make it harder to get our work done. Aggregation will reduce the number of context switches...”

“From a human standpoint, social e-mail may be the answer to that overwhelming stream of communications - and distractions - that technology now provides,” said Yaacov Cohen, chief executive officer of enterprise softwaremaker Mainsoft Corp. of Milpitas.

“I think they've developed a much smarter, quicker and probably more efficient way to tap into SharePoint's collaboration capabilities without forcing the…e-mail devotees – to give up e-mail.”

“Sometimes it’s to much trouble to check a file out of SharePoint and you just email a copy. But what if I had a solution that let you access your online documents from a sidebar in Outlook? That would be pretty cool…”

“I believe the unifying platform for the foreseeable future will be ‘social email.’ Here’s why:”

“Old habits, as we all know, die hard. This is especially true of ingrained business processes. I suspect that's at least partly why most folks cling to e-mail, even though almost everyone can agree it falls short as a collaboration tool…”

“Adoption gaps are nothing new, but they’re huge issues for companies making everything from baby steps to big strides in embracing new technologies.”

...The plug-in links an e-mail application to a collaboration platform such as Google Docs, and to a person's social networking profiles, calendar applications, voice over Internet protocol software, and so on...

The new harmon.ie enterprise suite includes components for Microsoft Office, Outlook and SharePoint, as well as IBM’s Lotus and Google Docs.

E-mail: It's isn't going anywhere, but it's definitely not staying the same. Mainsoft's new-ish harmon.ie product for Outlook and Lotus Notes is a prime example.

"The key to driving user adoption is bringing these tools into people's day-to-day workplace, which is email and harmon.ie transforms Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes into a rich collaboration and social workspace, called 'social email'."

Mainsoft Corporation has released a cross-platform suite of enterprise collaboration products designed to boost user adoption of Microsoft SharePoint and Google Docs. harmon.ie transforms Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes into collaboration and social workspaces.

"Mainsoft's harmon.ie is a family of products that aims to bring that kind of concept to the enterprise and drive user adoption of SharePoint and Google Docs."

"...harmon.ie customers report significant productivity gains and an increased ability to focus on the task at hand as people incorporate ‘social email’ into their enterprise collaboration strategy..."

"... one of the challenges ... is getting people to change their user behavior, because now you have to learn a new application, a new interface and do different things in order to be able to use that product."

"...As Yaacov Cohen, founder and CEO of Mainsoft says, social email gives you the best of both worlds, email is extensible and robust, and an interface that you know very well. It also contains your social graph."

"Workers are used to e-mail... They've been using it for document management and collaboration, and for other things that e-mail wasn't even intended to be used for."

"One of the things I'm most looking forward to…is the Future Ideas Launchpad, where we'll highlight the companies and products that are seizing the opportunities in the human cloud."

"...Accessing SharePoint with harmon.ie is five to six times faster than having to switch contexts and access SharePoint from a browser, bringing SharePoint to every business user..."

"...The most progressive organizations won’t be afraid to explore the innovative communications and collaboration models enabled by new devices and social services allow their employees to generate innovative ideas by experimenting with them..."

"We are in a time of great research on social cognition, but the biggest testing ground is on the web, where literally billions of people are connecting on an unprecedented scale."

"Instead of trying to encourage adoption of new tools and processes, Mainsoft's solution lets users do things the way they've always done them. And it seems to be working. One of Mainsoft's clients, the infamous multilevel marketing company Amway, claims to have seen an e-mail attachment reduction of 42% since deploying harmon.ie."

Many users find it time consuming to access either SharePoint 2010 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 and continue to use e-mail to send documents back and forth. Using harmon.ie for SharePoint, a free Outlook sidebar from Mainsoft, users were able to share documents more quickly than with the browser interface.

"...Using harmon.ie for SharePoint, an Outlook sidebar from Mainsoft, people completed the same tasks in 11 seconds, which was five to six times faster than using a browser..."

"The people over at Mainsoft have conducted a study over at SP Technology conference in Boston to find out how much faster you can work with SharePoint using their tool...In total, participants saved 61 minutes accessing SharePoint using harmon.ie versus using the browser."

The Linker took “The SharePoint Challenge” at SPTechCon at Mainsoft’s booth.... By doing simple drag-and-drop, The Linker saved 75% of the time spent doing traditional e-mail ping-pong.

"Nearly everyone can find a use for Google Docs, and many users rely on Outlook every day. Combining the two improves each; quick access to your Google Docs directly from Outlook saves time, whereas Google Docs add capabilities to Outlook. With harmon.ie for Google Docs, it's a win-win situation."

"Email is dead? Hardly. Four reasons why email is ideally suited to bring web 2.0 innovations to the enterprise."

"Are you stuck using Microsoft Outlook for email, but want a better way to share documents and collaborate with your coworkers? harmon.ie by Mainsoft..."

"[harmon.ie] is a great addition to the SharePoint ecosphere; I can’t believe this didn’t exist before..."

"The old days are over for Outlook. It's now entering an era where the degree of collaboration will center around a hyperlinked environment more so than document-based systems."

"While Google was purchasing DocVerse this week, Mainsoft was releasing a free Beta that lets you access and share Google Docs documents from within Outlook. The tool isn't from Microsoft, but it does put Google Docs users back in the Microsoft ecosystem, so I'm sure it's a tool that must at least make the folks in Redmond smile..."

"Sharing a Google Docs file for group collaboration can be a lot more useful than emailing individual copies to an entire team. harmon.ie makes opening, sharing, and managing Google Docs from inside Outlook a natural fit."

"harmon.ie gives Microsoft users the best of both worlds, much like Docverse did with Microsoft Word documents and web-based files. If you use Microsoft Outlook and Google Docs, the plug-in seems like a no brainer to download. Plus its conveniently free."

"Is SharePoint + Google Docs: An Oxymoron? Not anymore, and this is an announcement that even I... am getting excited about."

"There are two things we like about Mainsoft's (news, site) latest solutions: 1) they enable us to connect our Outlook client with SharePoint or Google Apps and 2) they are free."

"Mainsoft notes that email is still the most popular business communication tool, even with so many alternative forms of communication available. With this in mind, the company's goal with harmon.ie is to help turn Outlook into a collaboration console, adding document sharing functionality to the software's email capabilities to create a single collaboration and communication hub."

"'E-mail is becoming the collaboration console,'" says Mainsoft CEO Yaacov Cohen. "'If you make the browser and the Outlook client work together, you have better attention management and don't have to switch to browser window and be opening tabs. '"

"How can you more effectively use Outlook to store and share documents with co-workers? Instead of storing documents on your hard drive and sharing them as e-mail attachments, you can use the free harmon.ie plug-in from Mainsoft Corporation..."

"harmon.ie is an interesting addition for Outlook users who prefer to use Google Docs for online document collaboration and storage. Mainsoft's new sidebar also plays nicely with others, and in my tests, I didn't see any conflict issues between harmon.ie and Xobni--another popular Outlook sidebar."

"Software integration company Mainsoft today is introducing harmon.ie, software that will enable users to collaborate on documents stored in SharePoint via Microsoft Outlook e-mail. "