New Mindjet Mindmanager Pro 6 Helps Business Users Create Visual "Blueprints for Action" Submitted By: Onechocolate Communications Tuesday, 13 September 2005

New Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 Helps Business Users Create Visual "Blueprints for Action" Submitted by: Onechocolate Communications Tuesday, 13 September 2005

Increased integration with Microsoft Office brings information to life for greater team collaboration Mindjet Corporation, the leading provider of software for visualising 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. “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.” “We used the new version of MindManager to run the go live stage of green field back office implementation for a major utilities company. The power of the product is that we were able to track all the critical tasks and issues on six mind maps, one for each workstream – Networks, SAP, etc. The maps were used by the whole business as the primarily communication tool during this intensive and critical phase and have been acknowledged as a major contributor to the success of the programme," explained Neil Harris, Director at Further Consulting, a company that provides programme management services to IT technology companies. Mindjet technology delivers what no other technology can: A flexible, creative way for users to capture, organise, 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 also integrates with Microsoft Outlook including emails, contacts, task scheduling and automatic calendar synchronisation. MindManager thus 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 organise and reorganise information to discover new avenues of thought and new solutions – and then put those solutions immediately into action. Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 thus completely changes the way business groups work together. Equipped with Mindjet technology, the team stays focused on a visual map that contains the meeting agenda, attached key

Page 1 documents and hyperlinks to related information such as project plans, spreadsheets, Web sites, and corporate data. All the information is accessible from a single shared MindManager map projected on a screen and/or shared via Web conferencing. Throughout the meeting, all ideas offered, tasks assigned and decisions made are instantly captured in real time into the map for all participants to see. Everyone gets a transparent, interactive view of the project or process, reducing the time needed to absorb the information, make decisions and take action. When the meeting is finished, Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 automatically bundles up all the attached documents, Web links, RSS news feeds and data. The team leader can then immediately share the information by emailing the map and all contents to the team and stakeholders. The information can also be shared by exporting the map to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or Outlook tasks, as a Microsoft Project plan or Visio diagram – or as Web pages, PDF files or XML data. “Our Strategy Team has used MindManager Pro 6 beta to brainstorm, develop decision trees and organise 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.” - ends - About Mindjet Mindjet is a leading provider of software for visualising and managing information. With headquarters in California and operations throughout the world, the company develops software applications that improve business productivity by employing the power of information visualisation for more effective planning, collaboration, and business process management. MindManager, the acclaimed flagship product with more than 600,000 licenses sold worldwide, helps business professionals from the majority of Fortune 500 companies leverage corporate knowledge, shorten decision-making cycles and quickly shift from planning to action. For more detailed information about Mindjet in the UK please visit www.mindjet.co.uk. MindManager is a registered trademark of Mindjet. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. For further information, please contact: Silja Binner / Claire Lynch Grant Butler Coomber +44 (0) 208 322 1922 [email protected] Notes to Editors: Product Pricing and Availability for Mindjet MindManager Pro 6

Page 2 •£199 per seat •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): £149 per seat •Available on September 20, 2005 via: www.mindjet.com 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 Organisational 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! 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 colours (1024 x 768 with 16-bit colour recommended) Third Party Software: •Microsoft Office 2003, XP or 2000 •Microsoft Project 2003, 2002 or 2000/ 2003 Multilingual User Interface Packs •Microsoft Visio® 2003 •Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater

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