Mindjet Announces Release of Connect SP for SharePoint

Mindjet Announces Release of Connect SP for SharePoint

LONDON, November 15, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

   
            The New Collaborative Work Management Software Enhances
          Microsoft SharePoint Functionality for 125 Million Users

    Mindjet [http://www.mindjet.com ](R), the company that improves how
people work together, announced the release of Mindjet Connect(R) SP
software today. Mindjet Connect SP adds powerful visual collaboration
features and more intuitive document discovery capabilities to enterprise
installations of Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R).

    SharePoint software is used by 78 percent of Fortune 500(R) companies
and 125 million users for behind-the-firewall collaboration and document
management. Over the years, large enterprises have made SharePoint the data
storage and file repository of choice in both the U.S. and global
marketplace.

    Yet, industry reports show that some workers have found SharePoint hard
to master, which results in low rates of usage. In a recent Forrester(R)
Research survey, 37 percent of IT buyers rated SharePoint's level of
adoption as "less than expected."

    "With often large investments in enterprise SharePoint installations,
CIOs are tasked with getting the greatest adoption and return on this
technology," said Blaine Mathieu, Chief Product Officer at Mindjet.
"Satisfying that need is our business opportunity."

    "Mindjet Connect SP's visual discovery and intuitive team collaboration
capabilities make SharePoint both easier to navigate and more powerful to
use-a big plus for our customers," said Richard Harbridge, senior SharePoint
consultant at Allin Consulting.

    Mindjet Connect SP provides a simpler way for workers to share ideas on
large enterprise projects, because they can find information in SharePoint
faster and collaborate directly inside the SharePoint environment, with a
more intuitive visual display providing the key.

    "Businesses across the world use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010
to facilitate information sharing within organizations and deliver better
business insight," said Mark Green, EMEA e-commerce director at Insight UK.
"It has become the leading business collaboration platform and our partners,
like Mindjet, are able to extend the out of the box capabilities of
SharePoint Server 2007 to help our customers save time, drive business
initiatives forward and solve real business problems."

    "Connect SP displays information in a visual manner so team members can
better understand and align on critical issues and plans," Mathieu says. The
software is also expected to increase SharePoint adoption and usage rates,
helping IT departments avoid costly "rip and replace" strategies in which
underperforming legacy systems are removed-a huge source of headaches and
capital expense at large companies.

    Mindjet's product release is good news for Microsoft and should provide
a meaningful increase in their customer satisfaction levels. "SharePoint
adoption continues to be strong among many types of organizations. However,
end-user comfort with SharePoint and day-to-day usage depend a great deal on
how easy it is to find information and collaborate with others. Tools, like
Mindjet Connect SP, that augment SharePoint in these areas can help business
and IT meet their goals," said Kathleen Reidy, senior analyst at The 451
Group.

    Mindjet Connect SP is available immediately. For more information, visit
the Mindjet website [http://www.mindjet.com/products/connect-sp ] or the
Mindjet blog [http://blog.mindjet.com/2011/11/connectsp ].

    Supporting Resources:

   
    - Download the Mindjet Connect SP datasheet
      [http://mindjet.com/galleries/links/pdf/connect-sp-datasheet ]
    - Read the Mindjet Connect SP blog post
      [http://blog.mindjet.com/2011/11/connectsp ]
    - View a tutorial of Mindjet Connect SP
      [http://mindjet.com/products/connect-sp-tutorial ]
    - See images of Mindjet Connect SP
      [http://mindjet.com/press/connect-sp-screenshots ]

    About Mindjet

    Two million individuals, small businesses and Fortune 1000(R) companies
using Mindjet understand that working visually and collaboratively brings
results. We set the standard in mind mapping, and now our focus is to
provide collaborative work management solutions that dramatically improve
how people can work better together, accomplish goals more successfully and
be more productive.

    Forty-six of BusinessWeek(R)'s "World's 50 Most Innovative Companies"
rely on Mindjet to see the big picture-let us show you too.

    Mindjet, MindManager and Mindjet Connect are trademarks of Mindjet,
registered in the US and other jurisdictions. Fortune 1000 and BusinessWeek
are trademarks of Time Inc. and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.,
respectively, registered in the US and other jurisdictions.

Source: Mindjet

For more information please contact: Katie Buckett/Sarah Ryan, Mindjet@brands2life.com, +44(0)20-7592-1200