The rapid expansion of email usage over the last fifty years can be seen as one of the major technical, scientific and sociological evolutions of recent times. Pre-dating the Internet and contributing significantly to its development, email is widely considered to be one of, if not the, most important business communications tools ever invented. This short eBook will explore some of the challenges email faces in the near future.

1. If Emails are Documents,
Why Don’t We Treat Them As Such?
The Challenge of Using SharePoint to Manage Emails
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Emails are Documents
EMAIL DOCUMENT

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You Bought SharePoint to Manage Documents

4. But, you can’t manage emails in SharePoint
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5. Emails are stored
in Exchange
Documents are stored
in SharePoint
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6. There is a SharePoint – Exchange Gap
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7. No practical way to
STORE emails from
Outlook in SharePoint
No way to
RETRIEVE emails even if
you could store them in
SharePoint
No way to
COLLABORATE with
colleagues using emails
when stored on SharePoint
Impossible to
CLASSIFY emails in
SharePoint
Mind the Gap
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No practical way to store
emails from Outlook in SharePoint
Mind the Gap

9. Impossible to classify emails in SharePoint
Mind the Gap
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10. No way to retrieve emails even if
could store them in SharePoint
Mind the Gap
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11. No way to collaborate with
colleagues using emails when stored
on SharePoint
Mind the Gap
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12. The Result? Initiatives Fail
Managing Records
Managing Projects
Retaining
Knowledge
Managing
Products
Managing Cases
Managing Clients
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13. Is All Lost?
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USE harmon.ie

15. Store emails messages from
Outlook directly into SharePoint using the
harmon.ie sidebar. By staying within the
Outlook window, workers remain in focus
while SharePoint adoption soars.
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16. Classify email messages in
SharePoint. harmon.ie automatically maps
email headers such as ‘To,’ ‘From,’ ‘Subject,’
and ‘Received’ to SharePoint metadata.
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17. Retrieve
email messages from SharePoint. When
classified correctly and efficiently,
finding email messages is a snap.
Preview them with one click.
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18. Collaborate
with colleagues using email messages stored
on SharePoint. Realize all the benefits of
SharePoint document collaboration, now
with email messages.
• Use draft emails to collaborate internally
• Eliminate email chaos by having only one copy
of the truth
• Maintain a version history of email exchanges
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