SharePoint & Lotus

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.

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.

With the economy picking-up, the majority of Notes enterprises are finally upgrading to Notes 8.0.2 or Notes 8.5 and, at the same time, rolling-out SharePoint to their enterprise users to improve collaboration. While these changes are a refreshing and welcomed upgrade for the IT professional; for the average enterprise user, they are a disruptive and scary change. Notes 8 introduces a totally different user interface, and SharePoint requires users to change their daily behaviour.  So how can central IT promote and execute this roll-out ?
 

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.
 

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.

I sat down with Bruce Elgort for an interview about our new version on The Taking Notes Podcast. As usual, I spoke too much, but hopefully this can still be helpful. You can listen to it here.

An  IT executive in a large Notes shop referred me to this comprehensive Forrester study from Ted Schadler about the real cost of corporate email. Ted and his team surveyed 53 IT executives in charge of corporate emails and concluded that the fully loaded costs for corporate email is as high as $480 per user per year for a mobile executive, or $334  per year for an information worker in a company with 15,000 users.

This year, many companies have taken SharePoint to an enterprise-wide level. These initiatives have not been driven at the departmental level using WSS, rather central IT is driving the adoption of MOSS to increase collaboration and document sharing across the enterprise.

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: