Collaboration remains a major challenge for companies, even when teams sit within shouting distance of each other. MindMatters provides products that help companies manage knowledge. By bridging the language barrier, this tool can help multinational teams work more effectively. Given offshoring trends for developing applications and products, support for Mandarin, Russian, and Portuguese should be next on MindMatters’ development agenda.

Microsoft’s March acquisition of the technology assets of Groove signals that the enterprise collaboration and knowledge management market will heat up. Project and workflow management should benefit from these technological advances and increased market momentum.