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.

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.

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. 

Collaboration is a top IT priority and the key to enabling people to increase the effectiveness of their work while reducing the time, cost, and effort spent working together. But how can you drive mainstream user adoption of Microsoft SharePoint when your users are committed to using Lotus Notes?

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.

These days, many enterprises are investing strategically in SharePoint for email and document management. However, promoting SharePoint adoption among mainstream IT users is easier said than done, particularly when your enterprise relies on IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Sametime for messaging.

Today, during Mainsoft’s virtual user group meeting, Yaacov Cohen, Mainsoft’s CEO, and Jonas Martinsson, a Mainsoft product manager, highlighted SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes v 2.0.

Just back from a week at Rational Software Conference in Orlando. It was remarkable meeting so many IBM customers that want to integrate Microsoft SharePoint into their Jazz-based software delivery platform.

During today’s meeting, Mainsoft CEO Yaacov Cohen addressed common use cases for integrating SharePoint and Lotus Notes, including remote document authoring and sharing; complying with regulations and statutes; and saving email storage costs.