This week’s launch of harmon.ie 4.0 was a smash success. The pent-up need for secure mobile access to documents and colleagues from iPads and other mobile devices is apparent from the outpouring of interest in harmon.ie 4.0.  And the new harmon.ie for BlackBerry 10 app is ‘on fire’ - the buzz around harmon.ie at this week’s BlackBerry Live event in Orlando was ‘off the charts.’

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The prayers of millions of mobile workers have been answered. harmon.ie 4.0 delivers native Office app experience to iOS, Android, and Blackberry devices.

The rumors mills have been working overtime concerning Microsoft’s intention to release Office apps for the iPad.  But none other than Bill Gates himself put the kibosh on that one in a recent CNBC interview where Gates said:

Blackberry has just released the new BlackBerry Q10 – you know, the one with a keyboard. Personally, I have the Z10 and just love the sleek keyboard-less interface. But there are a lot of existing BlackBerry users who won’t be able to live without that QWERTY keyboard as part of their device experience.  So, for them, this release is a godsend.  

Expectations have been building up since Microsoft acquired Yammer last summer for a stunning $1.2B. For many harmon.ie customers, the combination of Office 365 and Yammer sounds like a smooth and safe move to a Microsoft-powered social cloud. That’s why at harmon.ie we have been focused on bringing Office 365 and Yammer to iOS and BlackBerry 10 devices. Also we have worked with Microsoft to bring Yammer and SharePoint 2013 to the Outlook 2013 interface both for the Web Application and the rich client. 

The way Microsoft uses the word “SkyDrive” these days, it’s not impossible to have up to 7 or more things in your life with that label spread across multiple services and devices! You’d certainly be forgiven for getting mixed up about what’s what, so let’s briefly try to clarify each one.

On the first day of the SharePoint conference in Vegas,  the “Father” of Microsoft SharePoint Jeff Teper described how Yammer will make SharePoint even more social and more cool.  Remember David Sacks in the chicken suit?  

Hot on the heels of the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office release,  harmon.ie just announced version 1.0 of harmon.ie for SharePoint – Office 2013 Edition –

The new release includes the following:

• Add ‘Group By’ view support - allows to expand/collapse documents according to their group, when selecting a SharePoint view with 'Group By' settings.
• Suggested metadata list is available directly from the document Properties editor.
• Add an attachment as a new version to an existing SharePoint document without the need to rename the attachment.
• An option to always prompt to ‘save e-mail on send’

Contracts, proposals, design specifications, manifests, and other types of documents are key tools for doing business. In the course of business, many people contribute to these documents by providing edits, feedback, criticism, and eventually consensus. But getting everyone in the organization 'on the same page' has been a challenge. Document management systems like Microsoft SharePoint have done much to bring order to document chaos, through streamlined handling of document revisions.

harmon.ie^® for SharePoint^® 3.0 – Outlook^® version is now available to the general public.