It’s all about Groove and SharePoint Workspace

If you carefully follow Hommes & Process news, you may already know that the team was finalizing a new product included in the GrooveIT! line.

GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office SharePoint is now available!

What’s that?

 GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office SharePoint is designed to provide SharePoint users with a simple, effective and secure way to extract SharePoint documents and rework them.

By “rework”, I mean: Have the ability to read and modify these documents from outside of SharePoint (so being offline) , the ability to add new resources, but also have the ability to share documents with people outside of the company: customers, partners, etc.

More than a simple download, GrooveIT! for SharePoint uses Groove 2007 functionality to achieve synchronization and security.

How does it work?
 

GrooveIT ! for SharePoint adds a button in your IE toolbar. This button is automatically activated as soon as you navigate to a SharePoint site containing a documents list.
 
Users only need to click the button, choose the source list and a name for the workspace and finally validate. And that’s all! This solution really is “idiot-proof”!
 
SharePoint and BPOS
 
The good news is that GrooveIT ! for SharePoint not only works with corporate SharePoint sites but also support BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services) sites. Using GrooveIT! for SharePoint, Groove 2007 become the natural and efficient offline client for your BPOS documents!

2 versions… 2 ways to use it!
 
To comply with corporate policies, GrooveIT! for SharePoint is available in 2 distinct versions.

The first one allows users to extend the workspaces created by GrooveIT! for SharePoint by inviting members or adding new tools.

•  If corporate policies allow invitations to be sent to people outside the company then this approach is the right one to support cross-organization collaboration. It’s a way to extract controlled and limited information from SharePoint and enable a team to work on it.
•  But GrooveIT! for SharePoint also permits users to work with colleagues on the same content in  “draft” mode before publishing finalized versions to SharePoint websites.
•  Finally, GrooveIT! for SharePoint helps mobile workers by providing a way to take documents with them, in a secure and easy way, when they are away from the company.

The second version (called “Special” Edition) ensures that documents stored in SharePoint will not be shared. Workspaces created by GrooveIT! for SharePoint are closed. No one can be invited to these workspaces. This version is the perfect tool to provide users with a secure Offline SharePoint Documents Client!
 
 To learn more…

You will notice that GrooveIT! for SharePoint is completely aligned with Microsoft’s strategy, that plans to link more closely Groove and SharePoint in next year’s major release (Office 2010). Finally, with GrooveIT for SharePoint, Hommes & Process provides you with a kind of preview of what Office 2010 will be made of!
 
You would like to learn more or give GrooveIT! for SharePoint a try?
Please visit: http://solutions.hommesetprocess.com