SharePoint & Lotus

Today, at the Lotusphere 2010 conference in Orlando, Mainsoft announced the upcoming 2.5 release of SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. The 2.5 release will pack some exciting new features, bound to turn heads. Read this post to find out the contents of the release and watch the video showing off some of the upcoming social features.

A minor update to Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes has been released. SharePoint Integrator v2.0.2 introduces support for the latest Lotus Notes clients: v7.0.4 and v8.5.1. SharePoint Integrator was tested on Windows 7, although we still wait for Lotus Notes to officially support Microsoft’s latest operating system.
 

Some months back, I posted our plans to add enterprise social features to the software delivery process. Today, I am showing you a screencast of our progress on integrating IBM Lotus Connections with IBM Rational Jazz.

The video below shows you how Jazz users have direct access to forums, wikis, blogs, file sharing, and bookmark sharing, from within the Rational Team Concert web interface.

A very informative guest post on Document Collaboration, written by Mainsoft’s Dekel Cohen, is now available.

Right now, one of the hot developments here at Mainsoft is extending the SharePoint Integrator to include Microsoft Outlook. The SharePoint Integrator has been available exclusively for IBM platforms, but will soon support Outlook as well.

Do you know that SharePoint Integrator offers usage reports on its own efficiency to help your organization improve collaboration patterns?

Enterprise social networking features will be added to the Rational Team Concert (RTC) development environment in our next release of Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, as mentioned on SPTechBlog. With the announced version 2.0 of Document Collaboration, the RTC client will be capable of:

The second Preview release of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes 2.0 is now available! This new release, which integrates with Lotus Notes 8.5 Standard Configuration, lets you embed SharePoint calendars in Notes. You will now be able to create, edit and remove SharePoint events in the same way as you work with Notes calendar items.

Here is a demo video of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes 1.5, from the web conference on January 15. In it, you'll get a tour of the major product features and how they best leverage your existing company assets. Since the demo is 12 minutes long, I split it in two parts, to fit on YouTube.

Tomorrow at 11:00 AM Eastern (4:00 PM GMT), Mainsoft is presenting a web seminar on integrating SharePoint with Lotus Notes: "Achieving your '09 collaboration objectives while managing expenses".
 
Yaacov Cohen will present how to take advantage of your existing company assets while accelerating SharePoint adoption in today's challenging economy. In the same session, I will show a demo of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes, highlighting how it promotes team collaboration.