Mindjet Brings Together Vision and Action to Support Better Business Collaboration

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21 May, 2012, 07:05 GMT

LONDON, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Mindjet Brings its Connect Applications Together across Web, Desktop and Mobile and Announces New Customer Offerings

Collaborative Work Management provider Mindjet® has brought together its two Connect products into a single service to allow users to collaborate together anytime, anywhere. It has also announced new offerings that better reflect customer demands within their business. The new Mindjet offerings will be generally available starting May 22nd.

Connecting Vision and Action

Up until now Mindjet provided two separate, cloud-based applications to help plan and execute ideas and projects. Firstly, Mindjet's powerful and intuitive mapping methodology for brainstorming, information capture and planning (Connect Action) and secondly, its highly capable social task and work management technology (Connect Vision). The two have now been brought together into one application, Mindjet Connect®, giving customers access to a platform anytime, anywhere - be it web, desktop or mobile - using a single sign in.

Available to both free users of Connect Basic and Mindjet's Connect Business users, the following capabilities have been added:

  • A single, integrated web experience where users can collaborate on ideas, strategies and plans and then record and manage subsequent actions through to project completion
  • Quick and easy access to the product via Facebook and Google IDs (with more to come)
  • In-product connections to tutorials and case studies so new users can get up to speed quicker than ever
  • Available storage has been doubled to 2GB for free Basic users and 5GB per Business member (pooled between the team members)

New offerings for the evolving customer

Mindjet has also announced new offerings for enterprises, teams and individuals to more accurately reflect how businesses use it for collaboration. Mindjet has found that collaborating on projects and sharing information is more effective using a visual platform - individuals use 20% less mental resources and are 17% more productive when using visually displayed information compared to traditional office software[1].

The three new offerings are:

Mindjet for Enterprise:

  • Aimed at businesses looking to collaborate effectively and securely across larger teams, departments and external partners
  • Allows users to co-ordinate, communicate and track activities of multiple teams in the public cloud (through Mindjet Connect) or in a secure SharePoint environment (Through Mindjet Connect SP).
  • Provides legendary desktop visualization, brainstorming and project planning through Mindjet MindManager®
  • Offers solution templates (for example for sales, Marketing, IT or HR)
  • Provides premium support and services with additional training, professional consulting

Mindjet for Teams:

  • For customers who want the speed and flexibility of a SaaS offering - anytime, anywhere
  • It combines Mindjet Connect Business and MindManager®, along with solution templates and guides to enable smart idea generation, work management and execution

Mindjet for Individuals:

  • A product for individuals who need to create ideas, manage information and share that work with others
  • Users get the MindManager with its brainstorming and planning features with a link to Mindjet Connect Basic, the free version of the cloud-based collaboration product.


Further information on the three new offerings will be available at Mindjet.com from the 22nd May. Details on pricing can be obtained from a local sales representative. Customers can continue to purchase Mindjet products individually or in a combination to suit their organisation.

Supporting quotes:

Sterling G. Smith, Office Manager, Get the Point: "We use Mindjet almost as much as email; it helps us collaborate on everything. With Mindjet we plan and run whole projects.  We brainstorm on ideas, assign tasks, get alerts and track progress on who's doing what, when it's supposed to be done and how far along it is."  

Gary Hielkema, President, Sensor Link: "With Mindjet Connect I get complete visibility into plans and projects. I can see it, I know it and follow it. I don't have to ping anyone anymore.  I can visually see exactly where we are in our critical path, what needs to be done first and what might what hold us up."

Chris Harman, Regional Vice President for the United Kingdom and Ireland, Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa: "We know our customers need to do more with fewer resources - they simply want to work better together and get work done, wherever they are. That's why we have developed an easy to use, intuitive service that supports effective collaboration and allows teams and organisations to be more creative, strategic and productive. And as the demands of our users evolve so has the way we deliver our products to meet those needs."

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Resources:

For more information about Mindjet's complete product suite, visit Mindjet.com or the Mindjet blog, Conspire.

About Mindjet:

Mindjet delivers collaborative work management software that generates ideas, organizes information, stores and shares data, and manages workflow in a way that maximizes the power of collaboration. Eight-three percent of the Fortune 100™ and forty-six of BusinessWeek's "World's 50 Most Innovative Companies" rely on Mindjet to unite visions and actions and drive business success- let us show you why.

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[1] Mindjet 'Data Digest' research, March 2012 [http://data-digest.co.uk ]