It’s all about Groove and SharePoint Workspace

Hommes & Process announced during Microsoft TechDays France that GrooveIT! for Outlook and GrooveIT! for SharePoint are now “Office 2010 ready”!

As a reminder, GrooveIT! for Outlook provide users with the ability to send emails, attachments, contacts, tasks, events and RSS feeds, from Outlook to Groove/SharePoint Workspace. The transfer can be done on demand (you select an item and decide where you would like to post it in Groove / SPW) or based on rules (You create a “link” between an Outlook folder and a location (workspace / tool) in Groove/SharePoint Workspace and/or define some publication criteria (ex : if this email contains this text…)). With these features, GrooveIT! for Outlook provides users with the ability to easily archive information and/or share it with their team.The new version allows user to use GrooveIT! for Outlook in Outlook 2010 and to post choosen items in Groove workspaces (V2007) hosted in SharePoint Workspace 2010.

GrooveIT! for SharePoint is an application hosted in Internet Explorer that help users to collect files stored in SharePoint and share them in Groove. The new version will allow user to collect files in both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 file librairies and publish them in Groove workspace (V2007) hosted in SharePoint Workspace 2010.

If you already use GrooveIT! for Outlook V2.x and/or GrooveIT! for SharePoint v1.x, note that you have the ability to upgrade for free!

If you do not already know these tools, do not hesitate to give them a try!
A 30 days full-featured version is available for free.

And finally, if you are interested by these 2 products, note that a specific package called GrooveIT! Essentials will provide you with the 2 products at an “optimized” price!

More details on http://solutions.hommesetprocess.com

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Few days ago, I register with Brainsonic a short video (in french) to present Hommes & Process and GrooveIT! for Outlook. This video is now available.

As a reminder, GrooveIT! for Outlook is an application, developed by Hommes & Process, embedded in Outlook, that allows users to send – automatically or on demand – emails, contacts, calendars, tasks and RSS feeds from Outlook to Groove workspaces. This tool allows user to go from a personal work method to a team work method, without any difficulties or data lost. Un “Must Have” for Groove-Outlook users !

At the end of this video, I also speak about GrooveIT! product line development and mention GrooveIT! for My Documents currently in Beta. I will write a post dedicated to this new product in a near future and provide more information than in the one already available. For example, i will present the add-ins available with GrooveIT! for My Documents that enable to open or save Groove documents from within Word, Excel and PowerPoint… 

GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook
By HommesEtProcess

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As said in a previous post, I demoed last Wednesday GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook Release 2 during the session dedicated to Groove development.
 
Demonstration use case:

I just received an email from one of my customer asking me to start a new project with him and who would like to set up a collaboration workspace to share project documents and follow-up. Using GrooveIT for Microsoft Office Outlook, in Outlook, i click on the “Send to Groove” button, choose a Groove identity. I can then choose an existing workspace or create a new one. As we are starting a new project, I decide to create a new workspace. I enter a name and choose emails recipients I would like to invite to join this new workspace. I’m also able to select contacts coming from my Contacts list in Outlook. I then customize invitation text and validate. A new workspaces is automatically created, invitations to join are sent by email to selected contacts and 2 new tools are added to my workspace : The first one will be dedicated to emails management – threads of discussions, filtering… – and the second one will allow me to store attachments. I finally choose attachments I would like to publish and validate.
That’s all it take!…
In few seconds, I new workspace dedicated to my project is ready to be used…
 
As i guess I will probably receive other emails related to this project, I aslo choose to create a

GrooveIT! rule. A create an Outlook folder and launch the “New GrooveIT! rule” wizard to map this folder to a Groove workspace. When new emails will arrive in my Inbox, I will only need to drop them into my mapped Outlook folder to have them automatically sent to Groove.
 
Finally, I would like to share some news related to a specific technology and useful for my new project. I subscribed to a RSS feeds in Outlook. I create a GrooveIT! rule to automatically publish new RSS articles into my workspace. Only few clics to transform my personal competitive watch to a team one!

If you would like to discover extra use cases or give a free trial to GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook, visit GrooveIT! website

You will also find below few photos taken during the presentation (Thanks to Nay for these photos)

Wednesday 7th, from 17:30 to 18:45 a session will be dedicated to Groove Development : “OFF202 : Building Custom Groove 2007 Solutions”

Matt Shannon and Mark Ryan will present capabilities provided by Groove to customize or integrate data stored in Groove workspaces. These topics will be covered : Groove Forms vs InfoPath Forms, Web Services API (and Helpers) and finally Groove DataBridge usage.

I will do a short demo of GrooveIT! for Outlook V2 to illustrate their presentation (GrooveIT! for Outlook use both Groove Forms and Web Services…)

Photo : Matt (on the right) and Mark (on the left) finalizing the session presentation

A lot of good news in the GrooveIT! line for the end of this year…

A new product in the GrooveIT! line…

GrooveIT! for MyDocs will be available in the coming weeks. Dedicated to documents integration with Groove, this new product will allows you to easily find documents wherever they come from, preview and publish them in Groove workspaces. All will be done in a few clicks… If you are interested by this product you can now subscribe to join the Beta program.

A new major release for GrooveIT! for Outlook…

Maybe do you already know GrooveIT! for Outlook, solution dedicated to data export from Outlook to Groove. A new major release (V2) is available since the end of last week !

It is now possible to send emails, tasks, calendars, RSS feeds and contacts from Outlook et Groove workspaces. The publication can be done “on demand” or automatically by creating GrooveIT! rules (Mapping between an Outlook folder and a tool in a Groove workspace). The product support updates for contacts, tasks and calendars : every modification done in Outlook is reported in Groove. Groove tools provided with GrooveIT! have also been improved. You can now benefits from sort, filter, Groove links support (For example, to link an email and an attachment published in 2 different tools). Emails discussion threads are also supported.

Items provided above are just some examples.

There’s a lot of surprises to discover in GrooveIT!

A trial version is available for free… Give it a try…

But be careful : try it and you will adopt it…. 

A new website and a new blog…

To launch these 2 new products, GrooveIT! website was totally redesigned. More than product information, you will find testimonials and video demos…You can also visit GrooveIT! blog to stay up-to-date and benefits from news and tips.

To visit !

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