Canada Post put the brakes on a costly migration process and instead turned to an add-on to Outlook that ended up saving the organization approximately $4 million, according to its former director of compliance.

Product review from @vladcatrinescu - Vlad Catrinescu. harmon.ie 10 uses the Microsoft Graph to group information by topics – not apps.

Product review from @SharePointWendy - Wendy Neal.  Get Your First Look at harmon.ie 10 – Focus On Work, Not Tools. 

Out-of-control paperwork was threatening to swamp the offices of UK retail giant Next, until a combination of harmon.ie and MS SharePoint allowed the business to increase the efficiency of its Legal, Property and Maintenance functions.

harmon.ie has announced that its flagship solution is using the power of the Microsoft Graph to identify topics from Office 365 apps, thereby creating natural workflows that promote deep work and increase productivity.

Ross Hebert, former Director of Compliance at Canada Post, talks about harmon.ie and it’s role in the success of the Canada Post compliance project in the Canadian Government Executive magazine.

Microsoft Monday is a weekly column that focuses on all things Microsoft. This week, Microsoft Monday includes details about AI courses, advanced protection for Office 365, and a new independent survey known as “The Office 365 app usage report 2018” .

Information delivered by topics-that's the way the brain works. Here's how topic computing can help employees ignore the complex world of hundreds of apps to become more productive.

According to a London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) survey, nearly one in four London businesses reported that they were unaware of the new data protection regulation with just weeks before the May 25 deadline.

New research illustrates the problem of app overload in the workplace. After reading the survey, called "The False Promise of the App Economy" employers may want to rethink how many apps they deploy or offer a way to better corral all that siloed information.

Low-code platforms make it easier for anyone to create apps, but did you know they can be used to stop the spread of app sprawl as well? Successful companies share their secrets.

App fatigue is hardly a new phenomenon. Between mobile devices, desktop computers and tablets, consumers are working with dozens of apps, toggling from one to another to access information and complete tasks. In the enterprise, this phenomenon is beginning to be a problem

Collage takes advantage of natural language processing and related artificial intelligence technologies to identify the topics and make the correlations. Within the Microsoft universe, Collage taps the Microsoft Graph logical model of connections between people, content, and concepts.

The iPhone just turned 10 and Apple sold 1.2 billion of the device, which has transformed our lives. Should we celebrate?

Since its founding in 1863, Zurich-based Swiss Re has seen many changes to its business and the world at large. Today’s turbulent business environment, however, is forcing Swiss Re to change faster and more comprehensively than any other time in its history.

Workers in today’s commercial construction companies exchange an enormous amount of project-related emails and documents with a wide variety of fellow employees, contractors, suppliers and customers on a regular basis.

Enterprise organizations have invested heavily in IT infrastructure. Now they are working to augment existing systems with flexible cloud services subscriptions that promise to automate processes, solve complex challenges and facilitate new innovations to help them outpace competitors.

Things that matter: innovation, ingenuity, resourcefulness, usefulness, collaboration, community, expertise. Our annual list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management features organizations that manifest those traits themselves and that help their customers attain such qualities.

As today’s technology is changing, finding crucial information can be tough. When you consider the services that the cloud is offering/providing us, you’ll see that many services are overlaying each other. . . . Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you can process to make sensible decisions. The result is that you either delay making decisions, or you make the wrong decisions.

A breezy PR email on workplace productivity ruffled my feathers. But my snarky response led me to a much more substantive debate with Harmon.ie CEO Yaacov Cohen. He shared Harmon.ie’s latest machine learning/Outlook-based approach to easing worker distractions. Then we got into the problem of always-on workplace culture, notification noise, and what the modern worker is up against.

Looking to make Outlook the center of the digital workspace, Harmon.ie has launched a new tool which brings together commonly used business apps and services into one place that gathers information from disparate apps and cloud services using AI and machine learning to apply context to a given task.

A new tool from Microsoft Gold ISV partner Harmon.ie aims to leverage Microsoft Graph APIs to make the Outlook mail and calendar application the center of the digital workspace.

In the age of increasing digital overload, business users find themselves constantly being distracted with too much information coming from multiple systems. An organization may use many different systems and cloud-based apps to store related information, such as Outlook for emails, Office 365 for document collaboration, Salesforce as a CRM tool, and ZenDesk for help desk tickets, for example.

Harmon.ie, a company that develops Outlook add-ins for Office 365 users has announced today Collage, a new add-in that brings together information from different cloud services, social tools, and more to make the email client much more useful.

This blog post is a review of the latest harmon.ie for Outlook version, which now includes the Collage technology. Check out this blog post to learn more!

Boston-based harmon.ie is taking steps to unify disconnected information from multiple cloud services, all within the Outlook inbox.

Smart machines are clearly having an impact -- including giving workers tools to make their professional lives easier

harmon.ie has unveiled new capabilities of its information governance solution designed to give organizations an easy way to properly manage important e-mails and documents as business records in SharePoint without asking employees to complicate their daily routine.

harmon.ie has introduced what it calls “the first topic computing solution,” harmon.ie Collage, to unify disconnected information from multiple cloud services within Outlook, which is many employees’ primary work interface.

Facebook has finally entered the enterprise, but its Workplace offering faces obstacles from business context to data security. Facebook, however, is not alone in facing these problems.

Digital workplace solutions provider harmon.ie today released its Outlook add-on, Collage, and made it available for free in the Microsoft Office Store.  The Collage add-on makes it possible for people to get work done in a place many of us spend large parts of our day: our email inboxes. 

harmon.ie has announced that its Outlook add-on, Collage, is now available for free on the Microsoft Office Store. Collage is described as topic-driven interface to help users focus on what matters most, by leveraging the environment where they are most comfortable: email.

harmon.ie, a provider of user experience products for the workplace, has announced that its Outlook add-on, Collage, is available for free on the Microsoft Office Store.  Showcased at Microsoft Ignite, Collage is a topic-driven interface to help users focus on what matters most, by leveraging the environment where they are most comfortable—email.

harmon.ie, a leading provider of user experience products for the workplace, today announced that its topic-centric app, Collage, has been chosen as a top enterprise solution at the annual CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) awards. Collage was recognized as the second place winner out of five finalists in the Mobile Enterprise Innovation category during an awards ceremony at the CTIA Super Mobility 2016 event on September 8th in Las Vegas.

harmon.ie, a leading provider of user experience products for the workplace, today announced that its Outlook add-on, Collage, is now available for free on the rapidly growing Microsoft Office Store. Collage is the first topic-driven interface to help users focus on what matters most, by leveraging the environment where they are most comfortable: email. 

harmon.ie, a leading provider of user experience products, today announced its 6th annual list of the top 25 SharePoint influencers, a group embodying the best the Microsoft ecosystem has to offer.

Designated as the KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2016, the offerings listed here, including harmon.ie, hold the promise for the marketplace—even if the marketplace has not yet realized it. 

At Microsoft’s recent Worldwide Partner Conference, CEO Satya Nadella laid out his vision for a world in which A.I.-powered chatbots “fundamentally revolutionize how computing is experienced by everybody.” Bots, according to Nadella, will become the next interface, shaping our interactions with the applications and devices we rely on.

TMCnet, the online entity of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine’s parent company TMC and the TMCnet community, known as Mobility Tech Zone, are pleased to announce the winners of the Mobility Tech Zone Product of the Year Awards - among then, harmon.ie.

More than a quarter of SharePoint projects have struggled to meet expectations, while a similar number have stalled, according to new research released by information management analysts AIIM.

The philosophical war between artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligence augmentation (IA) has been waged for more than half a century, with the focus shifting between the two as each has made important strides.

As a daily continuous end user of the Microsoft Office Suite within Office 365 + SharePoint Online, I’ve experienced my fair share of third party tools– anything to make my day more efficient, right? One that has really stood out over the years is the SharePoint application, harmon.ie. I specifically use this app for storing, sharing, and even editing documents in Microsoft Outlook.

FOMO isn’t limited to TV shows or video games; it’s also common in the workplace. That’s not a good thing. Also: How one DC-area vehicle-rental company has taken advantage of the Pokémon Go buzz.

Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is an anxiety created by the idea that something exciting is going on somewhere else, usually online … and you are ‘missing out.’  

As SharePoint is becoming the main collaboration tool for more and more enterprises around the world, users need to have access to SharePoint anywhere, anytime for any device. While SharePoint 2016 with the new SharePoint mobile app offers a better mobile experience than before, user experience is still meet Enterprise requirements.

Buyers of business software are eager to get their hands on the latest releases of Microsoft products, but the rapid pace at which the cloud is introducing new technology into the workplace can often be disruptive.

Although the cloud still represents a fraction of Microsoft's overall revenue, the opportunities for its cloud partners continue to expand, according to the findings of a survey of 212 Microsoft partners conducted by Harmon.ie, a provider of tools for enhancing the end-user workflow experience. - See more at: http://www.channelinsider.com/cloud-computing/slideshows/what-partners-s...

Security and speed of updates are worrying partners as they try to sell products to customers.

On 17 May 2016, harmon.ie in collaboration with Gimmal issued a survey report entitled "The One Email You Can’t Ignore: The Risks and Business Impact of Failing to Treat Emails as Records" ("Report"). This Report provides insight into the key challenges that businesses face in managing email records. The findings are based on feedback from over one hundred information governance leaders from different industries.

Microsoft partners are witnessing Office 365 technology updates, refreshes and changes outpacing their customers' ability to keep up with them. This is according to a new study by customer experience specialist harmon.ie which surveyed more than 200 Microsoft partners worldwide. Thanks to the complexity and rate of change, partners are seeing new opportunities to step in and provide the much needed bridge to help companies keep up.

This week has been a fascinating one for tech anniversaries. Nine years ago to this day, the first iPhone was released – a story of its own, of course – but perhaps as importantly for enterprise working, this week marks five years since the release of Office 365.

Microsoft’s Office 365 became generally available for businesses five years ago today, and it has grown remarkably in the time since, becoming the most popular enterprise cloud service, a new report says.

Microsoft partners are seeing Office 365 technology updates, refreshes and changes outpacing their customers’ ability to keep up with them. That’s according to harmon.ie’s second-annual report on the transition to the cloud for Microsoft partners. “The Evolving Microsoft Cloud: Opportunities and Challenges for Microsoft Ecosystem Partners" is based on an April survey of more than 200 Microsoft partners globally.

Following Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. for $26.2 billion one of Microsoft’s partners, harmon.ie, a company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft services, believes Microsoft and its partners stand to benefit considerably from “LinkedIn’s treasure trove of information”. But there are some obstacles Microsoft will have to overcome, harmon.ie asserts, and one of those is possibility of LinkedIn users having trust issues with Microsoft owning more of their personal information.

There are many layers to Microsoft's vision for enterprise collaboration, including roles for SharePoint and Office 365. But email and the email applications in Office 365 arguable remain some of the most essential in spite of the overall evolution of the company's various collaboration platforms such as Yammer. 

The initial shock of Microsoft's massive $26.2 billion bet on LinkedIn has mostly worn off, but it's still unclear just what Microsoft will do with LinkedIn, how the social network's loyal users will react to related change, and how Microsoft will integrate LinkedIn data with its products.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced its intent to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion (£18.4bn), the largest acquisition deal in the company’s history. Naturally, it did not go unnoticed in the tech press. The analysis from this publication focused on strengths, such as LinkedIn’s graphs and the various integrations with Office, Cortana and others that in theory sound exciting, as well as potential cautions.

Microsoft has yet to substantially improve the user interface or add significant features and functionalities to the enterprise collaboration platform it bought for $1.2 billion four years ago.

OneDrive for Business is evolving as the common denominator for all things SharePoint and Office 365. But as that becomes a common repository for data, migrating files and protecting them can be cumbersome. Companies such as AvePoint, EMC, Harmon.ie and Metalogix, say they can make it easier.

Here’s a unique challenge for you: This post is a 5-minute read. Can you read this entire piece through once without getting distracted, checking your email, looking at your texts, or snooping at your social media?

Emails are a vital source of business records, but many IT leaders don't feel adequately equipped to meet compliance standards and may face fines after an audit. - See more at: http://www.cioinsight.com/it-strategy/messaging-collaboration/slideshows...

Harvey Pitt, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, had a pithy observation about corporate compliance called the Pitt Rule of Discovery: “A document necessary for a company’s defense shall not be found when needed, unless the document actually makes the company’s situation worse—in which case, said document will be discovered at the least opportune time.”

User experience specialist harmon.ie and information governance heavyweight Gimmalhave formalized a longstanding relationship in a joint offering that provides information governance for email accounts.

Microsoft partners, harmon.ie and Gimmal have announced a strategic partnership to help business users with an easy way to capture, classify, store, find and retrieve important documents and emails in SharePoint, directly from Outlook.

Now that the hoopla over the general release of SharePoint 2016 is quieting down, it's time to ask SharePoint professionals some deeper, meatier questions about the release.

From the Industrial Revolution to the rise of the high-tech sector, Massachusetts has always been at the cutting-edge of innovation, Gov. Charlie Baker told a crowd of business leaders Wednesday night.

The SharePoint and Office 365 community now have plenty to chew on now that Microsoft has articulated the future of its collaboration software and service. It's no surprise that Microsoft wants as much collaboration as possible to take place in the cloud via Office 365 and SharePoint Online but the company reassured the SharePoint Server community that this wasn't the last on-premises version.

Governments have always been big BlackBerry users and, according to leading technology analyst Rob Enderle, demand is getting even stronger thanks to a new third-party alliance and expanding interest in our secure Android phone, PRIV.

Get your engines ready. May 4 — the date every SharePoint fan has been eagerly awaiting — is just around the corner. And in a matter of days, the latest, greatest arguably overhyped general release of SharePoint 2016 will be a reality.

SharePoint add-ins from harmon.ie have been consolidated into a single, unified offering, updated to that streamline workplace collaboration and make SharePoint easier to use in the enterprise environment.

harmon.ie, provider of a suite of workplace user experience products, has announced a consolidated harmon.ie product offering. The new solution brings together harmon.ie’s products in a unified offering and includes additions to streamline workplace collaboration and make Microsoft SharePoint easier to use.

The DoD needed something that could provide the kind of BlackBerry-like security protections demanded by government, with full management control, and they needed a SharePoint-like product that people would actually use. They needed a partnership between BlackBerry and Microsoft, but these firms weren’t partnered. The solution: a partnership formed between B&D Consulting Inc., a huge government-focused consultant with tons of BlackBerry experience, and harmon.ie, one of the top-rated Microsoft partners focused on humanizing Microsoft Office.

Gov. Charlie Baker speaks to business leaders at MassEcon's annual corporate welcome reception. Since the beginning of 2015, 18 global companies, including harmon.ie, have put down roots in Massachusetts. 

Yaacov Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Israeli-based startup harmon.ie, says the company’s new mobile collaboration platform draws its inspiration from the Talmud.

harmon.ie CEO Yaacov Cohen has been singled out by CRN Magazine as a top executive excelling at IT channel sales.

For companies using SharePoint and Microsoft collaboration tools, viewing multiple documents and forms on one screen is a game-changer. Harmon.ie provides just that—a way to view multiple windows and have the same capabilities in the field as in the office.

The harmon.ie enterprise collaboration hub helps empower construction personnel to edit, store, classify, retrieve and collaborate on large amounts of data, in both emails and documents, with a few simple clicks on the desktop or from mobile devices. 

On-the-go workers need to find relevant information quickly. To address this necessity, harmon.ie, offers a collaboration solution to meet construction industry challenges by improving access to documents and emails—with or without network coverage.

harmon.ie, a company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft in the enterprise sector – interviewed by us last week concerning Microsoft’s OneDrive fiasco – this week launched harmon.ie 2016. We talked to the company’s CEO, Yaacov Cohen, about the release and what it means for customers in the enterprise.

Fame, celebrity, industry recognition ... you could have all that and more, if only you knew as much about Microsoft products as the people on Harmon.ie's Top Office 365 Influencer lists.

Collaboration can’t be clunky if it’s going to succeed, according to Harmon.ie chief executive Yaacov Cohen.

The new harmon.ie release offers access to the different elements in an enterprise Microsoft environment, including Office 365, Yammer and OneDrive for Business through an upgraded single screen across desktop and mobile devices. It also comes with the addition of Mac support.

Document management systems of one kind or another are a virtual staple of offices across the planet.

Digital workforce vendor harmon.ie rolled out a new tool that unifies all email and documents in a single, central repository instead of relegating them to Exchange and SharePoint, respectively.

The next BriefingsDirect discussion explores the changing role and impact of content marketing, using the IT industry as a prime example.

Harmon.ie wants to end the Outlook-SharePoint struggle by treating email as full-fledged documents rather than having emails managed separately from other business documents.

To paraphrase a well known saying; Outlook is Outlook, and SharePoint is SharePoint – and never the twain shall meet. Yet a new solution announced by collaboration provider harmon.ie aims to change this traditional setting.

Hate your inbox? Harmon.ie claims it can help.

The company is releasing a solution today that it claims can transform email to searchable documents that can be managed in SharePoint.

To paraphrase a well known saying; Outlook is Outlook, and SharePoint is SharePoint – and never the twain shall meet. Yet a new solution announced by collaboration provider harmon.ie aims to change this traditional setting.

In an attempt to make the room more cozy for cross-device cuddling and any-platform pillows, Microsoft is also trying to serenade the ever-fastidious developer community.

SalesChoice is a predictive and prescriptive SaaS analytics company and has focused for the past three years on advanced artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and cognitive computing methods to help businesses cope with the declining rates of attention skills impacting productivity levels of sales professionals.

The clock is inching closer to D-1, and by this time your enterprise should have sorted all the answers for Windows 10’s arrival; Or at least, all the questions.

Most organisations aiming for a mobile-first, cloud-first workplace are unknowingly heading towards a productivity cliff caused by an ever-growing “app-ageddon”.

The cloud is a crucial part of Microsoft's future, and the success of Office 365 will be a crucial part of that. "Businesses moving to the cloud will find it extremely hard to migrate away from it, creating an exceptionally sticky business fueled by ongoing subscription revenues," said David Lavenda, VP of product strategy for harmon.ie. "And with Office Graph, which promises to deliver business intelligence from the cloud, Microsoft is likely to be the first to a new smart cloud offering, which will further drive growth."

According to a report from enterprise software vendor Harmon.ie, Microsoft Partners says their clients are willing to move existing Microsoft enterprise environments like Office, Exchange, and SharePoint to the cloud, but not without some trepidation. Indeed, the main reason many organizations make the switch is motivated by costs savings, and not necessarily a belief that cloud solutions are a superior alternative.

"Microsoft is at a crossroads. By doubling down on Office 365 and effectively shedding the mobile device market (Nokia), Microsoft has clearly indicated it’s a cloud-first world and the Ballmer device-first, Windows-first dynasty is behind us," said David Lavenda, VP of product strategy for harmon.ie, referring to the regime of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.  

Information Overload is an increasing problem both in the workplace, and in life in general. Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you are able to process to make sensible decisions.

Information Overload is an increasing problem both in the workplace, and in life in general. Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you are able to process to make sensible decisions.

The adoption of Microsoft Office 365 is expected to increase in the coming months, with partners planning to build new service offerings to meet customer needs.

Microsoft Office 365 Opportunities and Challenges for Microsoft Ecosystem Partners

Office 365 has been a hit in the enterprise. Many of those who have not already deployed it are planning to do so, a trend confirmed by recent  research from enterprise collaboration vendor Harmon.ie.

A report from enterprise mobile collaboration provider harmon.ie argues Microsoft is making progress in moving its customers’ productivity software to the mobile cloud, yet on premise remains important.

Accepting cloud technology seems to still be up in the air for Microsoft partners and their customers, according to results from a harmon.ie report released today, “Transitioning to the Mobile Cloud: Microsoft Office 365 Opportunities and Challenges for Microsoft Ecosystem Partners.”

Microsoft partners and others in the channel have their work cut out for them in terms of helping businesses transition to the mobile cloud, according to a new study by harmon.ie.

Cost saving is a primary driver for the move to the cloud, with nearly 68 percent of partners citing capital expenditure reduction as a major driver.

Enterprise mobility has exploded over the past decade, but its full promise remains just that – a promise

Updated Research continues to show the struggle of the password in keeping enterprise security. But is there a solution to keep employees – and employers – in shape?

theEMPLOYEEapp has aspirations to be the enterprise solution for pushing documents to mobile workers but need a shove in a few key areas.

To organize your workday and make yourself more efficient, it’s important to focus on three aspects of your work life: time, space and mind-set, says David Lavenda, at Harmon.ie.

Today's changing workforce with more mobile and remote workers has meant changes in how enterprises collaborate between employees, partners and customers. When mobile devices are used as a primary or secondary collaboration tool, then you might have to crack the mobile collaboration code for your enterprise to make sure collaboration happens securely.

Businesses are on the brink of an enterprise ‘app-ocalypse’ driven by the advance of cloud services companies and their workforce have added to their arsenal in order to cater to customers and deliver amazing (often times contextual) experiences. Driven by a desire to improve service and performance these businesses are unwittingly creating a chaotic — even crippling — user experience for their workforce. David Lavenda tells how freedom of choice — which allows businesses to select the most appropriate cloud service for the task at hand — has created problems for the enterprise that only app and services consolidation can solve. - See more at: http://www.mobilegroove.com/consolidate-to-avoid-enterprise-app-ocalypse...

Israel-based Harmon.ie places your Microsoft document sharing and social conversations into a single app. I spoke with Yaacov Cohen, Harmon.ie's co-founder and CEO about BYOD, employee collaboration, mobile security, Harmon.ie's integrated conversation solution, and why some BYOD programs seem to fail.

Even as enterprise mobility and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) experience changes. I recently had a chance to speak with David Lavenda, technology strategist, Fast Company columnist, and vice president of product strategy for harmon.ie, a collaboration tools vendor.

Affiliate Partner Program From Harmon.ie Rewards Consulting Partners. As a provider of a service that make it simpler to collaborate across multiple cloud applications, harmon.ie is pioneering the adoption of new workflow processes within organizations that have adopted software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Now the company wants extend its reach across the channel via an Affiliate Partner Program launched this week.

As a provider of a service that make it simpler to collaborate across multiple cloud applications, harmon.ie is pioneering the adoption of new workflow processes within organizations that have adopted software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Now the company wants extend its reach across the channel via an Affiliate Partner Program launched this week.

In an attempt to capture file sync-and-share market, Connected Data has launched the Excelerate Partner Program for selling Connected Data Transporter, its on-premises file sync-and-share technology.

harmon.ie has enhanced its Collage app to provide access to topical email, together with all their business apps, documents, collaboration apps and enterprise social networks in the one place.

Office Delve and Graph are works in progress: some things are done, but there's a lot more to do, Microsoft execs conceded at the Ignite conference in Chicago yesterday — even as they boasted of the speed of development.

Harmon.ie Rolls Out Affiliate Partner Program Harmon.ie, a provider of digital workplace products, launched an Affiliate Partner Program for Microsoft partners and VARs. Building on its growth in the SharePoint and Office 365 ecosystem, the expansion of the Harmon.ie channel partner program targets the growing market for cloud and mobile tools at small and midsize businesses, giving individual consultants and boutique consultancies access to the company's collaboration suite of connected apps for SMBs. The company plans to recruit more than 100 reseller partners in 2015.

Office Delve and Graph are works in progress: some things are done, but there's a lot more to do, Microsoft execs conceded at the Ignite conference in Chicago yesterday — even as they boasted of the speed of development.
Over the coming months we’ll see a lot of activity around connecting enterprise teams, the development of ‘Boards,’ the panes on which Graph information is displayed and the mobile experience, including the release of a Delve Windows Universal app.

Israel-based harmon.ie (pronounced “harmony”) announced yesterday at Microsoft Ignite its new channel partner program for the Office 365 community.

This product essentially brings a single pane of glass to access all Office 365 data stores from Microsoft Outlook or a mobile interface.

I’ll blog about my experience using its product another day, as it gives me simple access to SharePoint instead of the dreaded browser interface. Think of the Outlook snap-in as akin to running Microsoft Dynamics CRM from the CRM snap-in in Outlook and tagging/saving every e-mail, etc. More on the functionality later.

Adoption of Microsoft Office 365 continues to accelerate as companies embrace the cloud as a key pillar of today's digital workplace. harmon.ie, a proven enterprise collaboration leader, today announced its list of the top 25 Office 365 influencers. A natural extension of its past annual top 25 SharePoint influencers, this year's top list embodies the Microsoft ecosystem leaders' digital transformation to the cloud. Today's leaders go beyond on-premise SharePoint to play a critical role in helping businesses successfully embrace Office 365 as the cornerstone of their employee collaboration and productivity platform. The awards were announced at the 2015 Best of Breed Party on Tuesday night, hosted by Metalogix, and the full list of 2015 #O365Top25 winners will be available in harmon.ie booth #602 on Wednesday and Thursday.

harmon.ie, which puts all Microsoft collaboration tools on a single screen, plans to recruit more than 100 reseller partners this year to drive rapid growth in the SMB market.
The company on Wednesday launched its new Affiliate Partner Program, an expansion of its channel-partner program aimed at helping individual consultants and boutique consultancies “reap the benefits of the growing market for cloud and mobile tools" among SMBs.

Have you ever wondered if you rate as a mover or shaker in the Office 365 universe?" Well, now you have your answer, thanks to a just released list from Harmon.ie.
Harmon.ie, a company that creates software solutions to improve collaboration in the digital workplace, commissioned Scratch Marketing + Media to identify top Office 365 influencers.

Starting from a position that today’s mobile workforce does not need more tools, just better ones, Harmon.ie announced Collage, an app that brings data from multiple business application sources into a single view that can then be acted upon.

Email has a bad reputation for being the main cause of information overload; just look at the massive amounts of articles and studies devoted to the topic: According to a 2012 report from consulting firm McKinsey, reading and answering emails constitutes 28 per cent of an employee’s weekly work tasks. In a study of office workers in the U.K. a psychiatrist found that the average worker’s IQ fell by 10 points when they were distracted by email messages while working, the equivalent of missing an entire night of sleep.

Collage.
Key features: Collage provides workers with the first ‘go-to’ app for the Digital Workplace, now uniting business/collaboration apps, topical email and documents into a contextual single-screen experience on iPhones and iPads.

Despite years of discussions on enterprise mobility and BYOD, there are very few real business use cases that demonstrate real ROI. While we have much to accomplish in our quest for the mobile enterprise, many lessons have already been learned; lessons we can apply moving forward.

The typical mobile user of Microsoft's collaboration tools — Office 365, SharePoint, Yammer and OneDrive — isn’t a social media maven, according to a survey of user habits. But he can't live without document access.

Microsoft's Office 365 and Apple's iOS devices are becoming the main tools of the mobile workforce.

That is the conclusion of a survey [pdf] of 1,500 business users who downloaded the harmon.ie Mobile app, which brings Microsoft collaboration tools into a single screen on Android, iOS and BlackBerry devices.

A new report suggests the most common activity among businesspeople using Microsoft collaboration tools is document sharing, and much of that activity occurs early in the week, on Monday and Tuesday.

The problem with mobile and social tools in the workplace is that they are all about distraction, says Yaacov Cohen, the co-founder of Harmon.ie, an Israeli-based company that is creating new social tools for the workplace.

Updated Microsoft is serious about making work seamless. Five months after it was originally announced, Microsoft is officially rebranding Lync as Skype for Business.

The reasoning is simple. “We want to bring together the well-loved, familiar experience of Skype with the enterprise security, compliance and control that businesses expect from Microsoft,” a Skype blog post explains. A technical preview is already available, and the service will be made generally available in April.

Harmon.ie, a cloud-based software company headquartered in Israel, has moved its U.S. headquarters from Silicon Valley to Boston and plans to have 15 people at the office by the end of the year.

Creative Solutions in Healthcare found its workers are more productive and collaborative using social collaboration software than email. That led the company to evaluate options like harmon.ie's Collage, which brings together information spread out among different cloud services, like Office 365, Yammer and Salesforce, on a one-screen notification center for easier viewing.