SharePoint & Lotus

We hope you enjoyed yesterday’s popular webinar, with a record-breaking 189 online attendees!

Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft, presented the business case of integrating SharePoint with your e-mail application, be it Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook. I also had the opportunity to show a product demo with use-cases of how SharePoint and e-mail go hand-in-hand. At the end there was a lively Q&A session with really great questions from the audience.

Join our upcoming live webinar on SharePoint 2010 and Lotus Notes integration. It takes place on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 6:00 PM GMT. Here’s the blurb:

Getting employees to adopt Microsoft SharePoint is a challenge. According to industry analysts, only 38% of employees who have access to SharePoint use it on a daily basis.  And the challenge is even greater in shops that use IBM Lotus Notes for email.

Today, we are excited to release the public 2.5 beta of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes, now supporting social features, views, and SharePoint 2010.

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.