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.

If you’re unfamiliar with the product Cohen explained that harmon.ie delivers the digital workspace user experience on all platforms and devices across multiple vendors’ clouds offering: Office 365, Salesforce, Google. This, Cohen said, means, “So technology is easily accessible by business users; technology supports business not the other way around.”

harmon.ie 2016 adds support for Office 2016, extending the enterprise-focused functionality of Microsoft’s productivity suite with critical capabilities for structured collaboration, harmon.ie said in a press report. In the same report Jeremy Thake, senior technical product manager at Microsoft, was quoted as saying, “So, we are excited to now see harmon.ie take advantage of exciting new Office 2016 capabilities to increase users’ productivity across every platform on which people work, including Windows, Mac, the Web and a host of mobile devices.”

Cohen further explained to SliconANGLE the benefits of using harmon.ie:

• harmon.ie 2016 transforms Office 365 into a single repository for both emails and documents:

“Traditionally emails have been stored on Exchange while documents have been stored on SharePoint leading to a two enterprise repositories architecture making knowledge and record managements a nightmare,” said Cohen, “harmon.ie treats emails as documents and enables their management on SharePoint so enterprises can really implement a single repository strategy.”

• harmon.ie 2016 makes this single repository available from all platforms and all devices:

 Cohen explained, “MAC, Windows, iOS, Android, Blackberry. Business users can access the central repository from their smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops.”

• harmon.ie 2016 aligns business and IT:

“Business users have embraced Dropbox which delivers ease-of-use, while IT has been pushing Microsoft for compliance,” said Cohen, adding that, “harmon.ie 2016 makes the right thing to do, the easy thing to do. No more trade-off between ease of use and compliance as harmon.ie brings a single-screen experience on all platforms and devices for all Microsoft tools: SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Skype for Business.”

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