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The digital age has broadened individual access to the world. Today, through social networking and community platforms, people can not only see, hear and read information from every corner of the globe, they can speak to the world. This has given rise to the next great historical age we live in today. We’ve emerged from an era dominated by ‘super-powers’ and now live an age of super empowerment. The impact this has had on business has been profound to say the least.

Today, innovation and growth depends upon interactions rooted in modern digital social contexts yet personalized and focused on the individual. The rapid expansion of the digital age, and the resulting empowerment of individual access to information and the ability to quickly gain a wide audience has rendered experiences strictly designed for all as unsatisfactory to most.

Of course, it’s impossible to create a customer success infra-structure for every individual you sell to; that method would simply be impractical. However, you can build into your customer success modalities instances which recognize the individual and engages them on a personal level. For instance, when establishing a product help or support site, there are considerations that should be addressed that would serve to create a positive personal reaction and a great experience for the user.

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  • Report says “MindTouch resonates with open source customers”
  • MindTouch cited best current product alternative to industry heavyweights IBM and Microsoft

SAN DIEGO, August 10, 2009 — MindTouch, developer of one of the top open source projects in the world, today announced that it was named a strong performer against its key competitors in the August 2009 “Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009” report published by leading independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. MindTouch was the only open source option in Forrester’s 66-criteria evaluation of collaboration platform vendors.

According to the report, “MindTouch has built a strong offering and staked out the favored position among organizations with open source leanings.” Specifically, MindTouch “represents a strong offering in the area of traditional collaboration and has addressed the Social Computing opportunity quite well. MindTouch benefits from being an open source offering with a large and active community behind the product. Introduction of new functionality is aggressive, as is expected with an open source offering. The open source community support moves MindTouch into a very strong position as a partner and provides customers with a wide array of add-on and integration offerings.”

In addition, the report called out the following findings:

  • MindTouch is the only open source option in the 2009 Forrester Wave
  • MindTouch landed as a Strong Performer, right behind Microsoft, IBM and Novell
  • MindTouch has built a strong offering and staked out the favored position among organizations with open source leanings.

“In the last year, MindTouch has revolutionized the way companies capture, edit and collaborate on information,” said Aaron Fulkerson, Chief Executive Officer, MindTouch. “The 2009 Forrester WAVE recognition is a prestigious competitive recognition in the software industry and reflects the success we are having providing customers with an alternative to proprietary enterprise collaboration solutions. I’ve been through dozens of analyst assessments and I can report that I’ve never had one that was so thorough in evaluating the technology. The process was comprehensive and went as deep technically as any research I’ve seen.”

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