MindMatters Technologies, Inc. (www.us-mindmatters.com), the leading provider of enterprise software to inspire, manage and protect ideas that lead to new and improved products, today announced the immediate availability of a new module for its flagship MindMatters Innovator™ software system.

The MindMatters Translator™ module enables people worldwide to simultaneously collaborate on the development of innovative ideas in English, French, German and Japanese.  The result of more than 18 months of research, Translator seamlessly integrates with the Innovator system, giving people who speak different languages the capacity to work together in real time to develop products that help a company gain and maintain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

"Innovator's added capabilities give us more ability than ever before to rapidly share concepts with our team members worldwide," said Tom VandenBerge, Director of Intellectual Property at Johnson Controls. "Global collaboration is vitally important to us as part of our business innovation process. Innovator's seamless bridging of language differences enables us to integrate our U.S. organizations with our international divisions to broaden the scope of innovation enterprise-wide. It lets us manage those ideas, regardless of their country of origin, through established business processes, from their initial development through the time new products are introduced to the market.

According to Thomas Koulopoulos, President of the Delphi Group, a Perot Systems Company, “Innovation Management is increasingly a global task, involving extended enterprises, complex digital value chains, sourcing partnerships, and higher levels of transparency. Having the ability to coordinate these many components and constituents to maximize innovative capacity while also protecting the value of intellectual property is a challenge that requires specialized skills, methods and software applications.”

MindMatters Translator includes:

• A multi-lingual database to view all information regarding innovations and disclosures within the system in the user’s native language;

• Multilingual collaboration capabilities to share innovations between departments and business units despite language differences; and
• Country-specific invention disclosures according to country-specific Intellectual Property (IP) laws, a critical process in the capturing and managing of IP.

Innovation cannot stop at international borders, nor can it be allowed to languish while a key term or concept is manually translated from one language to another,” said John Gabrick, MindMatters’ Chief Executive Officer. “Translator gives businesses the ability to accelerate the entire process of innovation management, allowing companies to stay ahead of the competition.”

MindMatters Technologies, Inc. helps companies stimulate, capture, validate and profit from innovative product ideas and emerging intellectual property created by employees, customers and business partners. MindMatters’ patent-pending technology solution, Innovator™, is the only enterprise system that helps business managers effectively determine which innovations are most likely to turn into profitable products. Worldwide leaders like 3M, Dana Corporation, Johnson Controls, Sony and PPG Industries rely upon Innovator™ to support their intellectual property, innovation and growth aspects of their product lifecycles. To learn more, visit us at www.us-mindmatters.com, or call +1.724.743.4242.