Do you feel like your Outlook Inbox has been turned inside out and upside down? That feeling was the inspiration for a San Francisco based company called Xobni – “inbox” spelled backwards. Xobni offers an efficient way to manage and search your contacts and emails in Outlook and on the BlackBerry. The company’s mission is to help users take back their email inbox and save time searching for conversations, attachments and other important information. 
Xobni is an Outlook plug in that once installed docks to the right hand side of your Outlook window. Xobni creates rich profiles for each person you communicate with, even those contacts cc’ed on emails. These profiles contain relationship statistics, contact information, threaded conversations, shared attachments, and information on that contact pulled from social networks including: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Perhaps the coolest part of Xobni is that you can actually see the faces of the people sending you email communications, making correspondence much more personal.
“Our analytics engine helps us determine important information that you don’t explicitly provide, but that improves your productivity,” says Xobni CEO Jeff Bonforte. “We can determine if someone is important to you, how important they are, and how they relate to others in your network. We take those analytics to serve you the right information on your contacts at the right time.”
Xobni’s product offering includes a free Outlook plugin, a paid premium version, an enterprise solution, Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry and Xobni One, a contact-centric product that connects Xobni for Outlook with Xobni for BlackBerry. Click here to take a look at Xobni’s product comparison to see which version best fits your business’s needs.
At The Launch Pad we use the free Outlook plug in. We find it to be an extremely useful and timesaving tool that allows us to easily search through email and find out relevant information on particular contacts. The average Xobni user says that the application saves them 45-60 minutes per week . Check it out for yourself and see if Xobni increases your email productivity! Download Xobni.
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