MindManager® for Tablet PC

New Mindjet MindManager Pro 6

 Helps Business Users Create Visual “Blueprints for Action” - Increased integration with Microsoft Office brings information to life for greater team collaboration
Mindjet Corporation, the leading provider of software for visualizing and managing information, today announced availability of Mindjet® MindManager® Pro 6, the newest version of its flagship application for business professionals and teams. Available September 20, 2005, MindManager Pro 6 is a tool for graphically representing the core communications of business: from capturing meeting notes to creating sales campaigns and drafting business plans in an “at-a-glance” view. Now with enhanced integration with Microsoft® Office, each resulting Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 “map” can contain additional information via hyperlinks to documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Maps can also be connected to corporate applications and databases, and to Web services.

“Our Strategy Team has used MindManager Pro 6 beta to brainstorm, develop decision trees and organize projects,” said Samuel Johnson, senior manager for strategy and development at Ryder System, Inc, the Fortune 500 provider of leading-edge transportation, logistics and supply chain management solutions worldwide. “We are looking forward to upgrading to the final Pro 6 and experimenting with new features like Excel integration and improved export to PowerPoint. We continue to find MindManager to be a very flexible way to capture changes on the fly. It's intuitive to use, easy to operate and helps us capture the thinking of our team.”

Mindjet technology delivers what no other technology can: A flexible, creative way for users to capture, organize, and share information. Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 captures the information in an intuitive interface integrated with XML, HTML and the Microsoft Office suite of applications, including Word, PowerPoint®, Outlook and Project-and now Excel® and Visio®. MindManager provides busy professionals with a single easy-to-use interface from which they can quickly access key information, without having to navigate to numerous, often difficult-to-master applications.

Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 enables individuals and teams to flexibly capture ideas and information to build clearly structured, easy-to-understand representations of projects, plans, systems or strategies. Its fluid, drag-and-drop interface helps users quickly organize and reorganize information to discover new avenues of thought and new solutions-and then put those solutions immediately into action.

“Based on experiences of more than 600,000 business users ranging from CEOs to sales managers-even federal hurricane disaster recovery teams-we have focused the latest evolution of MindManager to empower more dynamic team interaction,” said Robert Gordon, CEO of Mindjet Corporation. “We're helping our users apply the illustrative, intuitive methods of collaborating and planning via flipchart or whiteboard, and then add to it the actionable power of linked supporting materials.”

New Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 features include:
New Microsoft Excel integration: Embed spreadsheet information into maps
New Microsoft Visio export: Quickly create flow charts, map out processes
Improved Microsoft PowerPoint integration: Quickly create and preview slides
New editable outline view: Switch from map mode to standard linear mode
New “Add Attachments”: Add multiple documents, URLs to each map topic
New Topic Alerts: Receive alarms for appointments created in your maps
New Organizational Chart view: Create dynamic, data-rich org charts
New Ink-enabled Notes: Adds new power to mapping on a Tablet PC
Improved Map Formatting commands: Make maps look better than ever-fast!

Product Pricing and Availability for Mindjet MindManager Pro 6:
$349 per seat: Discounts available in quantity.
Additionally, Mindjet MindManager Basic 6 (for those who do not need features such as Excel, Visio integration, multiple attachments, power filtering, custom properties, review mode for teams or timing clock): $229 per seat
Available on September 20, 2005 via: www.mindjet.com
System Requirements
Client Operating System:

Microsoft® Windows® XP, Professional, Home or Tablet PC Editions
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Server Operating System

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Citrix® MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0
IBM or compatible Pentium processor (700 MHz or greater), 256 MB RAM or greater,150 MB disk space and 50 MB more during installation, SVGA (800 x 600 or greater) with 256 colors (1024 x 768 with 16-bit color recommended)
Third Party Software:

Microsoft Office 2003, XP or 2000
Microsoft Project 2003, 2002 or 2000/2003 Multilingual User Interface Packs
Microsoft Visio® 2002 or 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater

MindManager X5

Mindjet, the leading provider of software for visualizing and managing information, today launched MindManager X5 Pro Release 5.2, the latest version of its award-winning visual tool for
mapping, brainstorming, planning, and organizing projects and information. IT managers can now distribute MindManager software to internal customers via push deployment to the desktop or by offering MindManager from a server. Support for large-scale deployment is just one of the new features included in the latest MindManager update. The new release is available as a free update
to current MindManager X5 Pro customers.

    "One of our key goals with this release is to make it easier for IT departments to distribute MindManager X5 Pro to large corporate teams," said Mindjet CEO Robert Gordon. "Large companies are implementing Mindjet software because it helps their business professionals and workgroups plan, organize, and manage multiple projects, processes, and information-based activities."
    MindManager X5 Pro Release 5.2 supports both Windows Server 2003 running Terminal Services or Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 environments to run MindManager from a server. It provides an editable Windows Installer (MSI) file for companies that prefer push deployment to the desktop. With the release, users will also experience approximately 20 percent shorter set-up
time and faster response times.
    The update includes enhancements to improve MindManager X5 Pro's integration with Microsoft Word:

    -- Table of contents, headers and footers can be included in the export to Word to create more polished final documents
    -- Save maps as outlines in plain text or html to quickly incorporate map information into Word documents and web sites
    -- Maintain the tab structure when importing "tab delimited" text from Microsoft Word into MindManager

    Release 5.2 also fully supports the advanced Microsoft Tablet PC "Lonestar" features:

    -- In-place tablet input panel simplifies and accelerates writing in the tablet environment
    -- Real-time handwriting recognition instantly converts written words to text, while giving the author the opportunity to correct "recognized" text
    -- Left-handed user interface option improves MindManager ease of use for left-handed users of both desktop and Tablet PC platforms

Time-Savings and Productivity Benefits

• Increase the number of new ideas generated during brainstorming by at least 20%

• Increase project success rates by at least 20%

• Reduce time spent transcribing and distributing notes by at least 30%

• Move projects from brainstorming & planning phases into implementation 20% faster

• Reach consensus, make group decisions 20% faster

• Reduce time spent preparing for meetings by 20%

• Understand concepts 30% faster

Combine handwritten ink notes and sketches with classic MindManager functionality to maximize your mobile effectiveness, resulting in more effective meetings and increased productivity.

Mindjet Founders Win Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2004 Award
In ten years, MindManager creator went from death's door to winner of Best Information Technology

In 1994, Mindjet founder Mike Jetter checked into a cancer hospital for what he feared would be his last battle to survive leukemia. Looking for something to both occupy his mind during his treatment and to serve as a parting gift to the world, Jetter decided to use his skills as a software developer and create a new kind of graphic interface. Ten year later Jetter, his wife and chief operating officer Bettina, and their partner Michael Louis have now been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® award winners in the Information Technology category. The award was presented by global professional services firm Ernst & Young last Friday night in Frankfurt, Germany.

"This honor from Ernst & Young is a very much appreciated affirmation of the work my wife Bettina, our partner Michael Louis and I have done to make Mindjet a successful company," says chief technology officer Jetter. "When I entered the hospital ten years ago to battle my third relapse of leukemia, I never thought MindManager would find such a receptive audience. I really started out with just one user—my wife. Mindjet now has half a million customers around the world who use our information visualization software to improve their productivity and creativity. I believed ten years ago that computer users needed a more intuitive, visual interface. Our success—and now this award—proves that this is true."

Mindjet was founded in Germany in 1994 following Jetter's successful treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia. Mindjet now has operations throughout the world and enjoys double-digit annual growth due to the popularity of its flagship product, MindManager X5 Pro. This visual tool for planning, collaboration and business process management enhances the productivity of business teams and individuals by providing them with an intuitive visual interface for the rapid capture, organizing, and sharing of information, ideas and data.

An independent judging panel selected the Mindjet founders on the basis of the company's innovative product line, employee development and current and potential corporate performance. The founders will now compete for Ernst & Young's World Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

About the Entrepreneur of the Year Awards
The Entrepreneur Of The Year® (EOY) awards program was created in the United States in a single Midwestern city by Ernst & Young in 1986 to honor entrepreneurs whose ingenuity and perseverance have created and sustained successful, growing business ventures.  Today, EOY has been expanded to more than 150 cities in over 35 countries with awards presented to over 900 of the world's most successful and innovative entrepreneurs.

Smart Electronic Note Taking for Tablet PCs

New X5 Pro 5.1 version lays foundation for future MindManager-based solutions to help office and mobile workers go from data to decisions

MindManager offers business professionals a more effective way to capture, organize and communicate information, ideas and meeting notes.  Business mapping with MindManager actually improves the way you work, increasing productivity through faster understanding, better decisions and reduced meeting time.

MindManager 2002 for Tablet PC is an intuitive pen-application that facilitates the quick capture and organization of information on the fly. Key features include:

• Pen-intuitive user interface

• Text recognition

• Searchable ink

• Inclusion of sketches

• Automatic spacing

The powerful combination of digital ink and MindManager's classic productivity features improves team collaboration, with significant results:

• Increased productivity

• More effective meetings

• Faster decision-making

• Less time spent on preparation

Maximum Productivity & Effectiveness:

Instantly capture ideas, meeting notes and concepts using sketches, handwritten notes or type

Drag and drop branches to quickly structure that information

Visually identify important tasks, issues and relationships

Refine information based on group feedback

Facilitate a clear understanding of the topic at hand

Organize tasks, supporting documents, existing resources and materials in a single application

Immediately export to popular formats, including:

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Project
• HTML Web site
• MPX(via add-in), RTF, or image formats
• Using SmartMapX Technology, customized solutions can be crafted to allow information sharing with any third party application

Languages:
Product available in English and German

A Breakthrough in Brainstorming, Planning & Meeting Organization

Using MindManager as an alternative to note-pads, flip charts and white boards provides significant time-savings and demonstrable Return on Investment.

In addition to time-savings from the electronic capture of information, MindManager's visual format facilitates communication, group consensus and decision-making in much shorter periods of time.

• Faster decision-making

• Less time spent on preparation

• Less time spent in meetings

• Increased productivity

Who benefits most from using MindManager?

Business professionals, managers, project leaders and their teams. The average business professional attends from 40 to 60 meetings a month which, in addition to requisite pre and post meeting activities, consume an enormous amount of time-much of it often unproductive. Mindjet calls these people 'Meeting Warriors'. MindManager is for Meeting Warriors.