Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes | Overview
Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Enterprises
The Problem
To cope with the global economic downturn, businesses are investing strategically in collaboration software to improve teams' innovation and reduce operating expenses. However, many Lotus Notes® customers struggle to implement their collaboration strategy because they rely on Microsoft® SharePoint® for team collaboration and document management. The separation between the Lotus Notes email client and SharePoint team sites impedes team collaboration and slows business users' productivity. To adopt collaboration sites, business users need SharePoint integration with Lotus Notes, so they can easily access and publish information on SharePoint from email, where they spend a large portion of their workday.
IT options for integrating SharePoint with email
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Coexistence - Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes drives SharePoint adoption and usage in Lotus Notes enterprises by combining Lotus Notes, Sametime®, and SharePoint into an integrated messaging and collaboration platform.
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Migration - For organizations that are going to migrate to Microsoft Outlook® and Exchange®, a private enterprise Beta release of SharePoint Integrator is available, which supports SharePoint 2010 and delivers the same, rich collaboration experience for Lotus Notes and Outlook users, minimizing user training requirements once users are migrated.
Download a 30-day evaluation of Mainsoft's SharePoint integration software today. Or contact sales@mainsoft.com if you'd like to participate in the Outlook Beta release.
Lotus-SharePoint integration features
"When we deployed MOSS, our team sites remained empty. What was missing was the ability to drag-and-drop Lotus Notes emails and attachments to and from SharePoint, which Mainsoft delivers."
From a Lotus Notes sidebar, Mainsoft's easy-to-deploy, client-side software enables users to effortlessly:
Drag an attachment from SharePoint into a Lotus Notes email.
- Access and publish emails and documents on SharePoint, without having to switch applications.
- Collaborate on documents using Sametime.
- Send document links rather than attachments, reducing email storage.
- Update document fields to comply with SharePoint taxonomy and governance requirements.
- Tap into the enterprise social network on SharePoint to collaborate with colleagues or find people (The Beta will be available later in Q1).
- Manage SharePoint team events from an integrated Lotus Notes calendar view.
Lotus-SharePoint software integration saves IT costs
"Mainsoft offers the practical integration path we need to support our end users' preferred platforms while preserving our existing IT investments."
Enterprise IT can realize significant cost savings by integrating their Lotus messaging and SharePoint collaboration platforms:
- Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator drives SharePoint adoption and usage at a fraction of the total cost of a SharePoint or email deployment, and less than 10% of the cost of implementing a new email infrastructure with Microsoft Outlook® and Exchange®. This whitepaper reviews IT options available to IBM customers that want to integrate email with SharePoint – including a migration from Lotus Notes to Outlook and software coexistence.
- Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator saves email storage costs by reducing Lotus Notes users' email dependency, as well as promoting the use of document links rather than attachments in outgoing email messages.
- Companies that choose a hosted SharePoint strategy to reduce on-premise administrative and licensing costs are free to do so. Mainsoft supports Microsoft SharePoint Online as well as hosted server solutions for Windows SharePoint Services (WSS v3) and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Structured pilot program
Mainsoft offers a structured pilot program to help Collaboration Directors to measure the impacts that SharePoint-Notes integration has on SharePoint adoption and use. The pilot also assesses individual and team productivity enhancements and measures the impact that a reduction in duplicate attachments has on email traffic.
The program is based on collaboration analytics and a well-defined methodology that Mainsoft developed during Mainsoft engagements with enterprises that use Lotus Notes and are deploying SharePoint. It defines a clear timeline and action plan to measure the impact that Mainsoft's IBM Lotus-Microsoft SharePoint integration software has on the success of the collaboration strategy, so customers can make informed decisions about their software investments. For details, contact sales@mainsoft.com.
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