SharePoint & Lotus

Last week, Mainsoft welcomed Rob Koplowitz, principal analyst at Forrester Research to speak with more than 150 Lotus customers that have adopted Microsoft SharePoint and want to promote end user adoption by integrating it with email.

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.

According to a recent study conducted by Infotrends, SharePoint adoption falls far short of SharePoint deployment. Today, of the 62.2% of employees who now have access to SharePoint, only 23.8% access it at least once daily. 

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.
 

We’d like to thank Lotus Notes customers in Germany who joined Mainsoft and our partners holistic-net, and TIMETOACT Software and Consulting for today’s virtual meeting.

During today’s Virtual User Group meeting, Mainsoft Product Manager Jonas Martinsson previewed Notes integration with SharePoint Social Networking features and Beta support for Microsoft Outlook.
 

If you’ve been trying to find a path to make your document collaboration and project management more efficient, you’ll want to read this whitepaper. It gives you details about integrating SharePoint with your email client to encourage SharePoint adoption for Lotus Notes users.

Mainsoft Integrates Social Networking Features and Beta Support for Outlook.

Thought you might be interested in hearing Matt Cain, Gartner’s lead email analyst, talk about integrating email with SharePoint to drive mainstream user adoption in this free podcast.

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.