Finally, I’ve found some time to write a few lines about my trip to CeBIT 2007 for MindBusiness. There’s on more day to go so it seems like just the right time to tell you a bit about the experience.
It’s been an amazing time on the Mindjet booth. We made many, many new interesting contacts and have yet to check out all the different business opportunities. Thank you very, very much to everyone at Mindjet and all our partners on site who just kept sending interesting people to our desk all the time. It’s working together like this that is the basis for great opportunities.
This was also a great chance to refresh contacts with people we’re already working with – in some cases this was the first time I actually met people in person rather than just emailing or talking on the phone. That’s one of the things I really like about trade fairs. I’ve yet to see a piece of technology that can replace that.
So, what were people most interested in this year? Personally, I got the impression that there were three major topics for MindBusiness. In no particular order that’s an easy-to-use project planning tool (i.e. Map4Plan), creating links between MindManager and SharePoint as well as SharePoint in general.
I think people were happy to see that we provided a number of solutions to deal with these pain points:
- The current MindManager and SharePoint 2003 interfaces in Map4Plan
- The update for Map4Plan we’re working on that includes support for SharePoint 3.0 re. SharePoint Server 2007 as well as additional features such as synchronizing lists between Map4Plan and SharePoint (no definite date here yet)
- A new tool for MindManager that will let you display the structure of your SharePoint site as well as all the permissions and list and library details in a business map at the click of a button (no date here yet either)
- Our SharePoint site www.sharepointberater.de that lets you actually see for yourself what SharePoint can do
We also had a fair number of requests concerning our decision making tool Map4Score as well as the enhanced HTML export tool Map4Web. Our new concept and method for trainings and consulting “OnePage” was very well received by people we had the chance to talk to about it. There was also a great deal of interest in our MindManager publications by Dagmar Herzog. There only available in German the moment but I hope we might get to see one or two of them in English some time in the future.
So, what was your stay at CeBIT 2007 like? Did you meet interesting people? Did you get new ideas for business opportunities? Or did you just end up with swollen feet, pain in your legs and an aching back?
I hope you had a good time. Here’s some impressions from my stay at CeBIT 2007 with pictures from the Mindjet booth, the fair grounds as well as one of the attractive little tram stations. I hope you’ll enjoy them!
