Mindjet announced today that it has hired two new vice presidents - a VP of marketing and a VP of products. In the company's news release, it states that it has made these hires to "prepare for web expansion."
Neil Mendelson, the new VP of products, comes to Mindjet from Business Objects, where he led development of its first software-as-a-service offerings - in other words, Web 2.0 stuff! Although the news release doesn't explicitly state anything more about Mindjet's strategy, other than the cryptic headline, it would appear that the company plans to launch a new web-based visual mapping tool. Very interesting!
I am scheduled to have a conference call with Mindjet CEO Scott Raskin in mid-June, which should result in more details about the company's plans. Stay tuned to this blog for more details as they develop.
That would be awesome. I hope your predictions are accurate and the product is as excellent as the client version. The best thing about it would be the reduced barriers to sharing maps (I mapping processes among, teams) and just getting people to use it. Being web-based makes Software soooooooo much more accessible.
Posted by: DCC | May 29, 2008 at 07:08 PM