Congratulations on your move to SharePoint Online and the Office 365

cloud. With Office 365 you will reap the benefits of flexibility and the cost

savings of cloud-based services. You will also realize a single platform for

productivity, communication, collaboration and enterprise social.

But there are a number of important things you won’t get ‘out of

the box.’ Here’s what you ‘need to know before you go.’

harmon.ie Delivers the Business Value of Office 365 Migrations

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SharePoint Online and Office 365 ChallengesSharePoint Online and Office 365 retain some of the challenges present in Microsoft on-premises offerings. In your move to the cloud, here are

some things your business needs to consider:

What this means:Consider these Office 365 / SharePoint Online Challenges

If you want to:

Extracting the business value from SharePoint is no easier in the cloud that it was on-premises.

y Impractical to upload email messages to SharePoint from Outlook (and the browser).

y Emails and documents are stored in separate repositories; emails in Exchange and documents in SharePoint.

y Hard to classify documents and email messages using metadata from the browser.

y So, it’s virtually impossible to store/find documents and email messages.

Manage documents and email messages in SharePoint Online for:

y Knowledge Management

y Project Management

y Records Management

Business workers don’t use SharePoint or other Microsoft collaboration tools.

y Each Office 365 service has a disparate browser user experience;

y The need to switch between browser tabs severely curtails usage of Office 365 tools.

Empower workers to collaborate in the office using Office 365.

Workers don’t use SharePoint or other Microsoft collaboration tools on mobile devices.

y Access to SharePoint via a mobile browser is impractical.

y Not all Office 365 services have native apps.

y Apps that do exist are not integrated – you need to cut/paste information across many apps.

Empower workers to collaborate out of the office on mobile devices, using Office 365.

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harmon.ie Delivers the Business Value of Office 365 and SharePoint Online

harmon.ie delivers on the potential of the Microsoft Office 365 cloud by solving Office 365/SharePoint Online challenges

harmon.ie provides a familiar user experience in the office and on the road

With harmon.ie, you continue to work within your Outlook client on the desktop and within a single mobile app on mobile devices. For the first time, you get seamless access to all Microsoft collaboration tools, such as SharePoint, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business, Yammer, and email, right from the place where you already work. Eliminating the need to change user behavior

to use Office 365 tools means workers engage with minimal training.

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With harmon.ie, workers participate in projects by updating tasks in SharePoint, collaborating in real-time using Skype for

Business, and joining in Yammer discussions… all from Outlook on the desktop and from a single app on mobile devices.

Bringing all the tools together creates a seamless experience that promotes adoption of Office 365…so you can realize the business value or your investment.

harmon.ie delivers Office 365 enterprise capabilities to typical business workers

With harmon.ie, workers are prompted to upload email messages and documents

to SharePoint while carrying out existing business processes.

Plus, classifying documents and email become part of normal workflows… in Outlook on the desktop and in a single app on mobile devices. When documents and email are uploaded to SharePoint and classified correctly, they can be found easily later on.

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By bringing together social, document, email, and enterprise project interactions in a single place,

harmon.ie delivers the business value of Office 365 / SharePoint Online, so that you can focus on the benefits of migration, rather than on how to compel employees to make the move.

harmon.ie supports hybrid deployments of SharePoint

harmon.ie Produces Results

harmon.ie seamlessly supports any combination of Office 365 (SharePoint

Online) as well as hosted solutions for SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, Office SharePoint Server (MOSS®2007), and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. Employees have the same intuitive user experience across all SharePoint versions.

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provides a powerful suite of products that empower the digital workplace. An established global company

serving thousands of enterprise customers, harmon.ie helps organizations increase their return on cloud-based application and service investments, increasing information workers’ focus by bringing multiple cloud services into one contextual, single-screen, personal experience across mobile devices and desktop computers.

Working together with Microsoft, harmon.ie was among the first apps to appear on ‘day one’ of the Office.com store in July 2012, launching with the premiere release of ‘harmon.ie for OWA.’ This app won the Best International App, awarded by Microsoft at the SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas. harmon.ie is a Gold Microsoft Application Development partner, and is also a proud member of the SharePoint Partner Advisory Council and the Office Graph Partner Advisory Council.

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