Harmon.ie has launched its email software tool for SharePoint in the UK, combining business collaboration tools and social enterprise networks into a sidebar within Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes.
Designed to remove barriers to user adoption of Microsoft SharePointor Google Docs as well as to bring a social component to document creation, harmon.ie creates ‘social email’ by enabling users to collaborate with colleagues and external contacts without changing work habits or leaving the email interface where they spend much of their workday.
Global enterprises such as ABB, Continental AG, and BearingPoint GmbH have adopted harmon.ie to drive collaboration initiatives, typically increasing end user SharePoint adoption from 30 percent to as high as 80 percent in a few months.
These features advance enterprise collaboration and social initiatives by connecting people and documents via ‘social documents,’ eliminating the complex navigation that typically discourages widespread use of collaboration tools.
“Enterprises recognize that the way we work today hampers efficient document authoring and editing, and therefore overall business agility. Business users working on a contract should be able to check the status of a document draft, initiate a phone call, or chat with the person editing the document from one window,” said Yaacov Cohen, co-founder and CEO of harmon.ie. “harmon.ie 3.0 brings all of these processes into the email interface for improved efficiency and team interaction.”
The need to repeatedly click, cut and paste between windows of multiple standalone applications interrupts workflow and causes distractions that drain worker productivity.
One recent industry survey found that distractions waste at least one hour a day or £3277.50 per person annually, costing more than £3.2 million per year for businesses with 1,000 employees. The same distractions were also shown to negatively impact work output, work quality and client relationships.
harmon.ie’s ability to overcome these stumbling blocks has attracted 400,000 paid users in enterprises around the globe as well as another 400,000 freemium downloads.
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