Social software provider harmon.ie® today announced its inclusion in as a “Cool Vendor” in the “Cool Vendors in Social Software and Collaboration, 2012”i report by Gartner, Inc. The report highlights five innovative vendors in the collaboration and social software space focused on developing solutions to bridge the gap between traditional collaboration, real-time capabilities, social media and business applications.
According to Gartner, “These vendors are innovative players in the collaboration and social software space, emerging to address specific gaps in offerings from the more established vendors. The integration of real-time collaboration and social capabilities in the context of business processes is also a growing characteristic among some of these emerging vendors.”
“We are honored to be included in Gartner’s ‘Cool Vendors’ report, as we believe it further confirms our mission to advance social business by making it easier than ever to access and use enterprise collaboration tools without disruption,” said Yaacov Cohen, CEO of harmon.ie. “Despite the best efforts of IT departments, most business users reject new tools that require them to adjust their established routines and workflow. Our suite of products breaks down barriers to collaboration and boosts overall productivity by enabling document sharing and social interactions in the places people already spend their workday: email and iPads.”
This distinction comes on the heels of the launch earlier this week of harmon.ie for iPad – a new enterprise iOS application for Microsoft® SharePoint® users on-the-go. For the first time ever, business users have a consistent, collaborative work experience across both the desktop PC and the iPad, and can securely share documents, see real-time document and colleague status updates and connect with colleagues from wherever their work takes them.
“harmon.ie for iPad means that the traditional hurdles of working effectively from the road – like accessibility, version control, daunting email traffic and more – no longer apply,” added David Lavenda, vice president of marketing and product strategy at harmon.ie. “Traveling business users now have everything they need at their fingertips to work efficiently and collaboratively while on-the-go.”
For more information on harmon.ie and its iPad application, visit harmon.ie or www.DontSharePointWhileWalking.com. To download the Gartner “Cool Vendors in Social Software and Collaboration, 2012” report, click here.
About harmon.ie
harmon.ie (pronounced 'harmony') provides software solutions that advance social business by aggregating document collaboration, enterprise social networking, unified communications and other social tools into the email client and mobile devices where users already spend their workday, dramatically improving the collaborative user experience. Thousands of businesses already use harmon.ie to vastly increase user adoption of applications such as Microsoft SharePoint and Google Docs™ for social and collaboration functions. harmon.ie is a Microsoft Gold Competency ISV Partner. For more information, visit http://harmon.ie/.
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i Gartner “Cool Vendors in Social Software and Collaboration” by David Mario Smith, Andrew Walls, Nikos Drakos, Gene Phifer, April 27, 2012.
