Calinda Software

Corporations work in projects with distributed teams and external partners. The dominant communication tool remains the e-mail, creating a significant overload.

Our technology dynamically builds visual maps from e-mails exchanged within a workgroup, regardless of the e-mail people use, and with no installation. Discussions are shared and structured to simplify the identification of key information, decision making and capitalization of knowledge.

Products and/or Services

In an October 2009 study, Forrester concluded that «Enterprise IT must promote more effective collaboration that supports and improves existing email-based collaborative behavior while also facilitating the adoption of new and more efficient tools».

MindUP dynamically builds visual maps based on the e-mail and documents that are exchanged in a project or workgroup, creating a shared workspace that gathers all meaningful information and bringing tools to use it efficiently to get things done. This way of structuring discussions between people to make them productive will become a key piece of tomorrow’s business application platforms, required to manage the human interactions in portals, CRMs, ERPs or any other business application.

Elements of the MindUP product suite include:

MindUP for SharePoint, the SharePoint mail space, sets a bridge between your team’s SharePoint sites and its internal and external e-mail exchanges. MindUP for SharePoint builds a central project repository in SharePoint that automatically includes e-mails exchanges and attachments in the projects’ sites, and reduces the SharePoint learning curve, facilitating its adoption. It also allows users who cannot or wouldn’t access SharePoint (external partners, customers or suppliers) to contribute by e-mail.

MindUP for Outlook, an optional plug-in for Microsoft Office Outlook, which automatically creates personal folders corresponding to the SharePoint sites and sorts e-mails into those folders as they arrive. A right-click on a folder allows users to start a discussion or publish a document in the SharePoint site directly from Outlook.

MindUP Live, a hosted, subscription-based service that provides MindUP mail spaces. Free trial on https://minduplive.com

Awards and Recognition

International patent pending
“Most Disruptive Innovation” Award 2008 by the SCS Cluster
“Innovate!Europe” 2009 TOP-10 Most promising start-up
“EEVC” European Venture Contest 2009 Semi-Final Winner