Mainsoft unveils SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes

BENGALURU, INDIA: Mainsoft Corp, a Microsoft Certified Partner and recognized expert in SharePoint and SLK adoptions and customizations, announced the availability of SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes for the Indian market.

Mainsoft’s client-side Java add-in for Notes enables business users to access, modify, and publish e-mails and attachments on SharePoint directly from the Notes environment.

In December, Bengaluru-based S7 Software signed an agreement to resell Mainsoft software and offer first-line support to IBM customers based in India.

The impact of SharePoint on Lotus Customers, "Given the widespread use of Microsoft Office on the desktop, it's not surprising to see SharePoint emerging in most organizations, including those that use Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Domino," said Yaacov Cohen, President and CEO, Mainsoft, adding, "Notes users are surrounded by SharePoint sites, and they get stuck with limited integration between messaging and collaboration platforms. Teamwork suffers, and managing team records is all but impossible. Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator promotes team collaboration and SharePoint adoption, without enterprise IT having to migrate to a new messaging platform.”

Early users include customers in banking, financial services, insurance, and education. “Aligning enterprise IT with business users’ needs, and doing so cost-effectively, is a high priority in today’s dynamic economic environment,” said Manjunath M Gowda, co-Founder, CEO and MD, S7 Software. “As a Microsoft business partner with expertise in building SharePoint-based collaboration solutions, S7 Software shares Mainsoft’s vision of executing enterprise-wide content management and collaboration infrastructures, without customers having to invest hundreds of millions of rupees to reinvent their existing, Lotus-based e-mail infrastructure.” Product Features Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator is available as an add-in for Lotus Notes 8 and as a rich, standalone client that docks to Notes 7.x and 6.5.x.

Both user interface options offer a Notes sidebar application that enables Notes users to: Quickly navigate multiple SharePoint sites using a rich client interface. Attach SharePoint documents to Notes applications, including e-mail, calendars, task lists, and team rooms. Initiate a Sametime chat with the last modifier or the creator of a SharePoint document, and drag-and-drop documents to the Sametime IM window.

Publish Notes e-mails and attachments on SharePoint using drag-and-drop or a Save-to-SharePoint button in Notes e-mails. Update SharePoint metadata from Notes. E-mail fields such as "Subject", "To", "From", and "Date", are mapped automatically to SharePoint columns as they are uploaded on SharePoint, and Notes users can fill in custom document metadata from Notes. The metadata makes it easy to view, sort, and retrieve SharePoint content.

Unlike migration solutions, which replicate SharePoint content, Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator relies on documented SharePoint SOAP Web services to access SharePoint content directly from either Windows SharePoint Server 3 (WSS) or MOSS 2007.

In addition, IT organizations can build enterprise mashups that run on Notes from disparate systems, including SharePoint custom lists and document libraries; Notes and Domino; and Java and .NET applications. IT users gain a more productive work environment as well as insights into business performance that help them make current decisions.

With Mainsoft, existing systems can be used within business processes, without the cost and expense of recoding each one on a common platform.