Work Collaboration Innovator Mindjet Adds New Collaboration Products, Garners 2 Million Paid Customers and more than 1 Million Mobile Users in 2011

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07 Feb, 2012, 08:08 GMT

LONDON, February 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Mindjet Takes the Collaboration Space with greater than 20% Growth, Marquee Enterprise Customers, and Increased Paid User Base

Collaborative Work Management provider Mindjet® recapped 2011, as a momentous year marked by the company's launch into the collaboration space, major product launches and double-digit growth. Mindjet also excelled in the mobile apps space with iOS® and Android® introductions, adding over one million new mobile users.  New product releases propelled greater than 20% increase in booking s and continued sales momentum throughout 2011, signing marquee customers Bayer, Credit Suisse, Dow Chemical, HSBC, Nokia and Volvo. At the close of the year, Mindjet's paid user base reached two million, including 83% of Fortune 100 companies.

According to research by LexisNexis®, 62% of workers in every market admit that the quality of their work suffers at times because they can't sort through the information they need fast enough. Today's increasingly virtual office, running at a feverish pace, adds to the list of challenges commonly faced by teams- often leading  to lost productivity as well as profits. The ability to collaborate, set goals and execute against them requires more than simple document management and file sharing. Singular task management solutions address only the back end of dilemma, making a complete solution that much more critical.

Mindjet Connect®, the platform that helps generate ideas, organize information, and store and share data, is designed specifically to create plans and drive them through execution. Mindjet added critical task management capabilities to the platform in late summer 2011 through its acquisition of Cohuman®.

"In Mindjet, we've found a sophisticated, modern solution that is capable of giving a clear, pragmatic outline on processes and planning for everyone," said Diana Zee, Project Manager from NHS Grampian. "Mindjet has enabled us to plan and collaborate for the future more effectively, by managing brainstorms and helping us guide our way through huge projects such as our new Dental School and Hospital. The "bird's eye" view of activities that MindManager enables, has allowed us to react, respond and retrieve information quickly with reassurance and aided communication between and across teams."

Jane Silk, Head of Vendor Relations, Sigma "Mindjet's mind mapping and interactive visual collaboration offers something unique to businesses at a time when they need to be thinking creatively to succeed more than ever. The technology is impressive and it definitely adds to our portfolio of products."

Chris Harman, Regional Vice President for Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Mindjet UK, explains: "Many companies face the challenge of working smarter this year to support their goals and empower their employees to take the right actions in a coordinated team effort. Since our move into Collaborative Work Management, we've begun enabling teams to visualize and execute their plans in an accessible and user-friendly environment. Mindjet is the first company to bridge this divide and our financial success in 2011 and healthy user base is proof of market demand".

"2011 was another exciting year for us. Whilst the economy has still been challenging, we've achieved double-digit growth. We plan to build on these results and customer wins as we continue to expand our company, footprint and customer success in 2012".

Key Mindjet milestones and 2011 achievements:

Growth of product suite:

  • Mindjet Connect - Lets people interactively map out ideas and information so that all participants can visualize the process from initial concept to strategy.  Once a plan is in place, a user takes action through a dynamic and social task management framework, pushing collaboration and communication to a new level. Mindjet Connect empowers people to unite vision and action to complete project goals successfully.-
  • Mindjet MobileApps  - To meet customer demand for collaborative mobile applications that seamlessly integrated with the Mindjet platform, the company introduced Mindjet for iPad® and iPhone® and Mindjet for Android making collaborative work management available to people from virtually anywhere on any device or platform.
  • MindManager® - Enables users to brainstorm, plan, strategize, and present more effectively using interactive information maps that illustrate high level concepts with relevant details, all in a single view.
  • MindManager 2012- the most significant release in the product's history, including real time co-editing, enhanced information maps, a new desktop interface, plus new brainstorming features that guide users to unleash team creativity.
  • MindManager 9 for Mac®- allows users to collect ideas combining the ease of a whiteboard with drag-and-drop editing. Built-in tools for organizing and scheduling, along with Apple® iWork® and Microsoft Office® integration, let Mac users quickly turn ideas and requirements into detailed project plans and polished presentations.
  • Mindjet Connect SP - adds powerful visual collaboration features and intuitive document discovery capabilities to enterprise installations of Microsoft® SharePoint®.

Key Customer Wins: In 2011, Mindjet added impressive customer wins with brands like: Bayer, BT, Con Edison, Citrix, Credit Suisse, Daimler AG, Ernest & Young, Fujitsu, Deutsche Telecom, Dow Chemical, Fidelity, HSBC, HoK, McKesson, MetLife, National Australia Bank, Nationwide Insurance, Nokia, Siemens, Swiss Life, TE Connectivity, Volkswagen and Volvo.

Expansion of Executive Team: Key additions to the executive team included Jascha Kaykas-Wolff as chief marketing officer, Blaine Mathieu as chief products officer and Valerie Burman as vice president of strategy, development and corporate alliances. Other strategic hires brought the company to more than 240 global employees which will expand even further in 2012 to support increased demand for Mindjet products.

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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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