Milpitas, CA. – November 22, 2011 - Social email software provider harmon.ie today announced availability of the Lotus Notes edition of harmon.ie for SharePoint 3, the first platform that aggregates Microsoft SharePoint collaboration and social tools into an email sidebar for easy access. The new edition enables Notes customers to bring SharePoint functionality into their email environment thusly uniting the disparate IBM and Microsoft platforms. Lotus shops such as consumer products company Amway, global power and automation technologies group ABB and utility American Water are using this strategy to integrate SharePoint and Notes to streamline work efforts.
Advancing the Social Enterprise
Also available for Microsoft Outlook, harmon.ie facilitates business collaboration and enterprise social networking by simplifying SharePoint usage for typical business users who have difficulty with the multi-step navigation. With harmon.ie, business users can complete common SharePoint tasks through the email window where they spend most of their workday, eliminating the need to navigate through at least nine different windows per task. These harmon.ie capabilities – initially focused on document collaboration – have enabled enterprises using harmon.ie to increase end user SharePoint adoption from 30 percent to as high as 80 percent in just a few months.
harmon.ie for SharePoint 3 adds new 'social document' features that further streamline collaboration by providing one-click connectivity between people and documents. These features, again available from the email window, include:
- An activity stream providing both document and people status updates, marking the first time that this information is available in a multi-threaded activity stream format.
- The ability to open documents as well as view detailed user profiles from the activity stream, allowing users to perform these tasks without leaving the email interface. This reduces context-switching distractions that decrease productivity and collaboration, as well as inhibiting SharePoint usage.
- One-click phone, chat, videoconference and/or email connectivity to colleagues from the activity stream, including support for Microsoft Lync/OCS, Lotus Sametime and Cisco UC, eliminating the need to change windows to initiate communications.
- A 'suggested colleagues' feature that helps users expand their enterprise social graph by recommending additional connections based on their contact history including email, chat, and document co-editing.
"With harmon.ie 3, business users working on a contract can upload their version to SharePoint, track document updates, initiate a phone call or chat with the person editing the document, and even find resources like domain experts in the organization from the same email window," said Yaacov Cohen, co-founder and CEO of harmon.ie. "This helps drive the social enterprise by eliminating complex navigation between multiple applications that discourages the adoption of collaboration tools."
Availability
harmon.ie for SharePoint 3 – Lotus Notes Edition is available immediately. An Outlook edition is also available. The platform supports Microsoft Office 365 as well as other Microsoft cloud offerings such as Microsoft SharePoint Online, hosted solutions for SharePoint 2010, Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0.
Find out what’s new in harmon.ie 3 for SharePoint, Notes Edition here: http://harmon.ie/documentation/sharepoint/notes/whatsnew
Download a 30-day evaluation of harmon.ie 3 for SharePoint, Notes Edition is available here: http://harmon.ie/SharePointNotes/Enterprise/Download
