ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5 Professional 5

ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5 Professional 5 is such a helpful software which is used for brainstorming, mind-mapping, and visual thinking. It's your personal assistant when discussing ideas, making decisions, and planning projects.

ConceptDraw MINDMAP enables you to present information in a simple, visual way by building trees of ideas, or Mind Maps. Use it to organize brainstorming sessions, take notes, plan your work, and make presentations.

The role of ConceptDraw MINDMAP is to organize and plan idea development and communicate between process participants. Mind maps are convenient to prepare presentations for team and management and send task lists and related information. A unique combination of ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw PROJECT forms the creative environment for the team working. 

Major Features:

1. Extract maximum productivity from knowledge working
   • Brainstorm mode
   • • Helps you generate ideas and then discuss them in a group. When session is complete use Map view to discuss, edit, develop, remove or organize your ideas. The timer lets you limit the length of your brainstorming session.
   • Synchronized Outline and Map views
   • • The Outline and the Map views can be presented simultaneously thus letting you easily switch between the map and its textual description. Any changes and additions immediately appear in both views.
   • Topics support project task information
   • • You can create mind maps that contain tasks with specific parameters: Duration, dates, percent completed, executors etc. Any topic can be turned into a task.
   • Multi-page maps
   • • Each map may have several pages, connected with hyperlinks. It means you can create a highly-detailed multi-level maps.
   • Page navigator
   • • Multiple pages preview with possibility to navigate between pages and documents Powerful tool to effectively manage info overload.
2. Create environment to work the manner you do
   • Map Inspector
   • • Customizable toolbars and floating windows allow you to organize your workspace so that the necessary buttons are close at hand.
   • Automatic placement and arrangement of branches
   • • On adding new branches there is no need to move them manually as they are automatically placed in a workplace separately. By clicking once on the corresponding icon you can arrange your mind map in different directions.
   • Text notes
   • • Supply additional information where needed using text notes that can be easily added and edited within a floating dialog. When exported to HTML, notes come up as hints in the browser.
   • Callouts and Floating topics
   • • Allow adding your comments to the topics, placing random ideas that do not concern the map subject matter outside your map and then go back to these ideas later.
   • Drawing capabilities
   • • Rectangle: using this tool you can draw simple charts and diagrams on a map.
     • Ellipse: great tool for creation of topic boundaries or highlighting important part of the map.
     • Line: you can draw lines and several types of arrows using this tool.
     • Bezier curve: bezier curves are used in computer graphics to produce curves which appear reasonably smooth at all scales as opposed to polygonal lines, which will not scale nicely
3. Share information with other people and applications
   • Integration with Project Management tools
   • • Export/import facilities enable you to export task list to Microsoft Project XML, file format compatible with almost any project management tool available. Also, you can import Microsoft Project XML files.
   • Web ready maps
   • • Export to HTML lets share your document with large amount of people using Internet.
   • MindManager Import
   • • You can seamlessly open files created by MindManager users on both Windows and MacOS.
   • Export to PDFUsing PDF you create compact and platform-independent documents that can be freely viewed on any computer.
   • OPML support
   • • OPML is the common data exchange format between number of outlining and mind mapping applications. Use it to exchange data with users of other software packages.
   • Graphics format support
   • • You can export your maps into number of popular image file formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG.
   • Integration with iCal
   • • Use this feature for transferring information about tasks and events that is contained in a map into iCal.
   • Microsoft Office compatibility
   • • Microsoft PowerPointμ/i>: export to Microsoft PowerPointΠlets you easily create animated presentations for the colleagues based on your maps.
     • Microsoft Projectμ/i>: use MS Project XML export feature create project documentation based on project plans created in ConceptDraw MINDMAP. You can also import your projects and view them as a mind maps.
     • Microsoft Wordμ/i>: create concepts and project plans using export of the map outline to the MS Word rtf file.
     • Microsoft Outlookμ/i>: MS Outlook task list export/import helps you to manage your schedule and to be better organized.
   • Cross-Platform Capability
   • • ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports both Macintosh and Windows platforms. It solves a problem of information exchange between two platforms, by allowing user easily to transfer files between a PC and Macintosh.
4. Adding mind mapping features to IPod
   • Text export
   • • Export of mind map text notes and outline text to iPod allow them to store plans and tasks outlines or other valuable information usually contained in notes.
   • Mind Map slideshows
   • • Converting mind maps into slideshows that are synchronized with iPod makes it possible to view maps on the move and make presentations for friends and colleagues.
5. ConceptDraw MINDMAP for Projects featured tools
   • Open in Project
   • • Create a project from an entire mind map using "Open in PROJECT" command. Project will contain project information initial that mind map contains: project structure, task structure, task information, resources. The multi-page mind map turns to a multi-project document.
   • Create Project
   • • Create a project from selected topics using the "Create Project" command. Mind map will preserve all related project information.
   • Create a Mind Map from Gantt Chart Data
   • • Paste copied projects, resources or tasks into ConceptDraw MINDMAP to obtain clear and visual representations of your project.

Requirements:

• OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP /VISTA
• CPU: Intel Pentium® 4, 1,8 GHz or higher
• RAM: 1024 Mb
• HDD: 540 Mb disk space (1,5 GB during the installation)
• DVD-ROM (DVD install).