“eminec develops products
that support you in
unleashing your creativity —
in an easy, natural way.”
Carsten D. Kolenda,
Founder of eminec
About eminec
In a nutshell – 10 facts about eminec
- Our product: eminec MYmap software for knowledge management
- Editions for enterprise, academic and home office use
- Free 45 day evaluation version
- Free viewer
- Free English-speaking support
- 100% based on XML for easy, powerful integration
- Over 10 years of experience — development started in 1998
- Available on the German market since 2000
- Also available in English since 2004
- Engineered in Germany
In great detail – the eminec story
1998 Flash of inspiration
Carsten Kolenda is in search of a software for brainstorming, organizing and sharing ideas. He is not satisfied with any of the offers on the market. They appear to be too cumbersome. A software program for easily collecting ideas in a drawing would solve the cumbersomeness problem, while providing users with a level of information clarity previously unheard of.
1999 Internet
The eminec web site goes online in late April.
2000 Launch
MYmap 2000 is published on the German market in March, MYmap 2000.2 in November.
2001 Partnership
eminec enters into a partnership with amazon.de, enabling its customers to buy selected mind mapping books.
2002 Breakthrough
managerSeminare journal, issue 02/2002, concludes that “MYmap offers just about everything you need for mind mapping on the PC”. Appreciative reviews and word-of-mouth lead to the breakthrough on the market.
2003 Feedback
eminec keeps interested users up to date with the “Der Geistesblitz” e-mail newsletter. Customer suggestions, including a brainstorming mode, are incorporated into MYmap NG (published in November; in English for the first time).
2004 Spreading
In August, eminec launches the English version of the website. As part of the North Rhine-Westphalia Project SelGO (Independent learning with digital media in secondary school level II), many students are provided with a “Klett eminec MYmap” license. For the first time, mentions of MYmap are found in scientific literature (see below).
2005 Connecting
MYmap XG is published in August. The new XML export feature makes it possible to reuse stored information more efficiently in other applications.
2008 Viewing
MYmap v.5 Viewer is published in April.
2010 Fifth edition
MYmap v.5 is published in April.
References
MYmap finds mention in the following publications (in German):
- GRONAU, N. (Ed.), BAHRS, J. and G. VLADOVA (20093): Anwendungen und Systeme für das Wissensmanagement. Ein aktueller Überblick. In: GRONAU, N. (Ed.): Reihe Wirtschaftsinformatik: Technische und organisatorische Gestaltungsoptionen. Berlin. [ISBN 3940019771]
- GRONAU, N. (Ed.), BAHRS, J. and S. SCHMID (20052): Anwendungen und Systeme für das Wissensmanagement. Ein aktueller Überblick. In: GRONAU, N. (Ed.): Reihe Wirtschaftsinformatik: Technische und organisatorische Gestaltungsoptionen. Berlin. [ISBN 3936771537]
- SPATH, D. (Ed.), ARDILIO, A., AUERNHAMMER, K. and S. KOHN (2004): Marktstudie Innovationssysteme. IT-Unterstützung im Innovationsmanagement. Stuttgart. [ISBN 3816764509]
- GRONAU, N. (Ed.), DILZ, S. and A. KALISCH (2004): Anwendungen und Systeme für das Wissensmanagement. Ein aktueller Überblick. In: GRONAU, N. (Ed.): Reihe Wirtschaftsinformatik: Technische und organisatorische Gestaltungsoptionen. Berlin. [ISBN 3936771138]