MAINSOFT LAUNCHES HARMONY - ENABLING OUTLOOK USERS TO ACCESS FULL FEATURES OF GOOGLE DOCS AND SHAREPOINT FROM WITHIN OUTLOOK

Milpitas, California -March 9, 2010 - Mainsoft^® Corporation, a leading provider of cross-platform interoperability software, today announced Harmony - free software for Microsoft^® Outlook^® that provides full-featured access to Google Docs^TM documents or Microsoft SharePoint^® document libraries from within e-mail.  Based on the premise that it should be easier for people to work together on documents, Harmony brings some of the best collaboration and document-sharing tools into Outlook, where users spend a large part of their workday. 

Currently, most Outlook users store documents on their local hard drives and share them as e-mail attachments, resulting in wasted time trying to find the latest version of a document and merging feedback from various people.  The new Harmony sidebar enables people to share a single, centralized copy of the document, eliminating the many intermediary steps associated with sending e-mail attachments back and forth.

Downloads for Harmony for Google Docs (BETA) and Harmony for SharePoint are available now at:

• http://harmony.mainsoft.com/content/downloads/harmony-for-google-docs [1]
• http://harmony.mainsoft.com/content/downloads/harmony-for-sharepoint [2]

The Future of Email

Despite the growth in new communication tools, e-mail remains the number one business communication channel. According to Andrew McAffee, author of the book, Enterprise 2.0, people spend an estimated 26 hours per week on average using enterprise email. 

Matt Cain, research vice president and Gartner's lead e-mail analyst, states, "we believe the ultimate role of the e-mail client is to aggregate communication and collaboration streams from many modalities into one common interface. In this way, the e-mail client becomes the communication and collaboration master console - a universal queue, so to speak." 

"Adapting e-mail to the new world of collaboration technologies is something being addressed across the industry, with both Google and Microsoft transforming their own e-mail client experiences," said Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft. "Harmony offers a cross-vendor, cross-platform approach, which delivers an integrated user experience across Microsoft Outlook and Google Docs, and makes document sharing a lot more accessible to end users. "

"Our users spend a large part of their workday in e-mail, and the time it takes to save each attachment to the desktop as an intermediary step to moving it to SharePoint, discourages people from using team sites and document links," remarked Michael Bucciero, business solutions manager for Louis Dreyfus Commodities North America. "People waste time digging through their e-mail to find the latest version of a shared document and merging comments from various users.  Mainsoft software eliminates these problems by making document sharing convenient, fast, and easy from within email."

About Harmony

Built using well-documented SharePoint Web Services interfaces and Google Docs open APIs, Harmony transforms Microsoft Outlook into a powerful collaboration console, with full-featured access to Google Docs or SharePoint documents from an Outlook sidebar.  Users can share, locate, and manage centralized documents quickly and easily, from the convenience of their e-mail client.

About Mainsoft Corporation

Mainsoft Corporation delivers integrated user experiences across multiple messaging and collaboration platforms. The company is a first mover in transforming email into a collaboration console, with the launch of Harmony, which brings Google Docs and SharePoint into Microsoft Outlook, as well as the integration of Microsoft SharePoint within IBM Lotus Notes^®.  Since 1993, Mainsoft has developed award-winning cross-platform software integrating Windows^® technologies with open systems.  To learn more about Harmony, visit harmony.mainsoft.com [3].  For more information about SharePoint integration [4] with IBM platforms, such as Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime^® and Rational^® Jazz^TM, visit www.mainsoft.com [5].