22/08-06   -   Press releases

Mondosoft Global Technology Partner with Microsoft

Agner N. Mark new chairman at Mondosoft
– The company is growing globally and has ambitious plans

2006. The Danish IT company, Mondosoft, marked leader in supplying software tools for search and behavior trackning on enterprise websites, portals and Intranet, has strengthen the board of the company by appointing Agner N. Mark new chairman.

Agner N. Mark has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry and has significant experience working actively with boards in a number of global technology companies. The chairmanship should be seen as a larger rearmament and a boost of Mondosofts position and effort in the global market place.

In July alone the company got several new customers in the US, Germany, Holland, Austria, Denmark and New Zealand. More than 2.700 companies and enterprises world wide use Mondosoft software on their various web sites.

"Mondosoft is a fascinating and strong company. Search and behavior tracking are continuously important to keep pace with a larger and larger part of the trade, information retrieval, citizen service happening in the internet. I look forward to carry through and help Mondosoft reach their goals.," says Agner N. Mark

Microsoft counts on Mondosoft
"Mondosoft is – in close partnership with Microsoft – one of the few Danish technology companies working globally. This is one of the most important reasons why Mondosoft was mentioned on Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference in Boston in July. In the opening speech at the conference Microsofts CEO Steve Ballmers point out Mondosoft as 1 of 5 essential technology partners for Microsoft. This position makes us successful," explains Mondosofts CEO, Laust Soendergaard.

He continues, "Our expectations for the coming years are big. We will focus on our ability to continuously improve and optimize sites. This will give the user and the enterprises a much better user experience. We are no longer just dealing with search. We see that the market is ready to take the next steep and start optimizing the sites.."

More information and questions – please contact CEO Laust Soendergaard, cell:+45 40 94 02 22 or Chairman Agner N. Mark, cell +45 40 10 90 76)

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About Mondosoft
Mondosoft provides technology that enables enterprises and mid-sized companies to maximize the return on investment of their knowledge aggregation and online marketing efforts. Mondosoft produces information retrieval systems and search and optimization tools that function as business intelligence systems based on the knowledge creation and retrieval process.

Mondosoft supports a large number of portal and content management applications including Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft CMS and Microsoft Commerce Server.

The company´s product line consists of an advanced, multi-lingual search engine suite (MondoSearch™, BehaviorTracking™, InformationManager™) and a cutting-edge taxonomy toolset (Ontolica®), providing business intelligence on information creation, search, retrieval and usage of the information. Mondosoft provides a range of automatic and manual information optimization tools and modules that enable organizations to conduct retrieval and creation optimization on the corporate knowledge creation process.

Mondosoft customers include Bosch, Burger King Corporation, Coleman. Hilton Hotels, Honeywell Process Solutions, Microsoft, Overnight Transportation, People´s Bank, Shell Oil, Siemens, SimCorp, The Swiss Army, TDC, The Vatican Holy See and United Technologies. Founded in 1998, Mondosoft has dual headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark and Palo Alto, California, as well as branch offices in Asia and Europe. For further information, please visit www.mondosoft.com.

Back ground information on Agner N. Mark
Agner N. Mark has more than 20 years experience within the IT industry. As CEO in the timeframe of 1990-2002 he was responsible for bringing Dan Net forward to be the world’s leading roaming clearing company. In 2002 Agner N. Mark took the initiative together with privately held equity funds to carry through a management buy-in of MACH, a Luxemburg roaming clearing company. With Agner N. Mark as working chairman they went though a complete turn-around of MACH, partly a buy up of Dan Net and partly a merger of MACH and Dan Net. These transactions were honoured in 2005 with "Mid-market buy-out of the Year" by the European Private Equity Organisation. During the last couple of years Agner N Mark has been engaged on board level in a number of technology companies. For example chairman of the board at Visual Wireless International AB, OptionDirect A/S and CommWyse A/S, deputy chairman at Thomson publishing house and board member at NetTest A/S.