2010: The Year of Visualization in the Enterprise

In 2009, social networking gained a stronger foothold within the enterprise. As evidenced by Facebook and Twitter integrations with the Sharepoint and Salesforce platforms, businesses had access to unprecedented, real-time data on audiences, as well as a new way to reach them. Yet, questions remained about how to use this information to improve business results.

This presentation will discuss how visualization technology will be the next tech trend for Enterprise 2.0, and how it can help leverage ideas and information to solve real business problems while driving innovation. 

Michael Deutch, Chief Evangelist, Mindjet

Michael Deutch is Chief Evangelist for Mindjet and is responsible for driving awareness and discussions around visual productivity applications (mind mapping) and working with customers to help them visually capture ideas, improve business processes and drive innovation.

Michael authors The Mindjet Blog where he discusses the collaboration and productivity benefits of mind mapping, along with best practices and user stories. Michael is an active user and supporter of social media and leverages a wide variety of tools to build out and implement social media that drives increased awareness and conversations for Mindjet.

He blogs, tweets and speaks at a variety of conferences on innovation, productivity and blogging such as Office 2.0 and Getting Things Done (GTD) Conference and has presented at Microsoft Project Conference, Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Congress, Microsoft Strategic Architecture Forum, and Presentation Camp. He also regularly authors articles on productivity and collaboration and appears on podcasts such as "The Productivity Show."

Michael brings 17 years of product marketing and product management expertise in the software industry to Mindjet and has worked for leading organizations like Sony, McKesson, SAP, PWC, CSU (Costa Rica) and others. Prior to Mindjet, Michael worked for SaaS vendors Project InVision and QuantumShift and consulting firms PwC and Proxicom. Michael can be found on various social media sites including the following handles: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook.

Mindjet provides personal productivity and collaboration solutions that visually connect ideas, information and people to save time, improve business processes and drive innovation.
 
Mindjet is the only company to combine a visual productivity application (mind mapping) with a comprehensive collaboration platform.  Mindjet's approach efficiently organizes complex ideas and processes to increase clarity and turn ideas into action.  So whether you are driving the sales process, managing a project, building a strategic plan, running a brainstorming session, conducting a meeting, or simply getting organized, Mindjet helps you succeed with almost any business or personal productivity challenge.
 
People can work individually or collaborate in real-time to organize, manage and communicate ideas and information while solving real business problems.  From the big picture down to the smallest details, your entire team can easily engage with the most relevant information.  Now, for the first time, you can see the forest and the trees. 
 
Used by more than 1.5 million professionals around the world in six out of every 10 of the companies listed in the Fortune 100, Mindjet solutions dramatically boost productivity and team effectiveness. Surveys across several industries show that Mindjet can increase productivity by up to 25 percent by making meetings, common communications and project management tasks more efficient and effective.
 
Mindjet's software and web-based solutions include the world's leading visual productivity application, document and file sharing, secure workspaces and web conferencing.  Mindjet products are available for free trial or purchase at secure.mindjet.com/store or through an extensive partner network at www.mindjet.com/community/partners. Mindjet is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.