Mindjet announced that it has acquired Cohuman, and launched Mindjet Connect and MindManager 2012 to give teams the tools they need to spark creativity and . Mindjet is focused on letting teams work together and stay in sync, sharing ideas securely to get the job done.

Forrester's Rob Koplowitz indicated in his 2011 report that 43 percent of information workers work from multiple locations over the course of a month, and that 42 percent work outside of the corporate firewall. Work is decentralized, moving faster and likely to keep changing at a rapid pace to keep up with the similarly frenetic pace of change in communications, business and technology.

To address these evolving needs, --a social task-based Web service that makes information more people-centric, organized and transparent. Cohuman incorporates aspects of social networks like Facebook and Twitter to give people the ability to better coordinate and collaborate with project teams.

In addition to the Cohuman acquisition, Mindjet launched MindManager 2012 Professional for Windows. MindManager 2012 helps teams spark fresh ideas. It helps teams unleash creativity with a three-step approach using pre-defined challenge questions, inspiration cards, and a visual representation that helps teams refine concepts and plans.

"MindManager 2012 has been designed meet the needs of today's professional who constantly barraged with new opportunities and pressing business challenges," said Blaine Mathieu, chief products officer, Mindjet. "The new Directed Brainstorming feature organizes an outpouring of ideas that can be quickly honed into real solutions for real business needs."