Bringing Eclipse Mylyn 3.0 Productivity Benefits to Development Teams VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 24
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Tasktop Technologies,
the company that created and leads the popular Eclipse Mylyn open source task
management tool, today announced the availability of the Tasktop Pro Summer
2008 release. Tasktop Pro is an enterprise quality solution, powered by Mylyn,
which offers integrated task management, automated context management, time
tracking, calendar integration and access to the dramatic productivity
improvements of the task-focused user interface.
Tasktop Pro extends Mylyn to a programmer's desktop, enabling one-click
multitasking when navigating source code, documents and web pages. It
integrates and augments popular application lifecycle management tools,
including JIRA, CollabNet, Bugzilla, Rally, Microsoft Outlook, Gmail and
Google Calendar. Tasktop extends the advantages of each of these tools,
providing a streamlined rich client with offline access and enabling
developers and project managers to manage the enormous amounts of information
that they are faced with daily.
This version of Tasktop Pro introduces novel task-based time tracking that
measures and reports exactly the amount of time spent on tasks shared through
Bugzilla, JIRA, CollabNet, or Rally. This information helps Tasktop users
ensure their time is being spent on high value work. Tasktop's time tracking
feature is completely automated and configurable.
A key benefit of Tasktop's time tracking feature is that it supports a
broad range of existing project management solutions, such as CollabNet's
IssueZilla, SFEE and Subversion. "CollabNet is excited about its partnership
with Tasktop Technologies and the productivity improvements the task-focused
interface can bring to users of the CollabNet Enterprise platform," says Mark
Phippard, Director of Subversion Engineering at CollabNet.
"With Mylyn, we have provided hundreds of thousands of developers with the
core tools needed to work much faster by automatically focusing them on the
task-at-hand," says Mik Kersten, Tasktop's President and CTO, and creator of
Mylyn. "Today's release of Tasktop Pro incorporates the numerous benefits of
the recent Mylyn 3.0 release and is a response to the countless requests from
our users for time tracking automation. Tasktop is the first tool to remove
the overhead of task-based time tracking as it provides to-the-minute accurate
timings based on a user's interactions with the code, documents, web pages and
other applications they work on for a given task."
Programmers using a beta release of Tasktop Pro are already raving about
the new features. "So far the Tasktop Pro reporting mechanism works like a
charm and is even easier to use than I expected. Tasktop keeps making my
workday easier with each release," said Kevin Williams, Lead Programmer, at
Destination Cairns Marketing.
The company also announced today the availability of a free version of
Tasktop that offers Gmail integration, one-click connector updates and a time
tracking dashboard to developers using Mylyn. Tasktop Starter is ideal for
those looking for an easy way to stay up-to-date with the latest Mylyn
release.
Availability
Tasktop Pro is available today for purchase at $149 or for a 30-day trial.
Tasktop Starter is also available today for free download at
http://tasktop.com/download
About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies created the revolutionary task-focused interface and
the popular Eclipse Mylyn tool currently used by hundreds of thousands of
programmers. The Tasktop line of products extends the productivity benefits of
Mylyn to a developer's entire workday and makes the task-focused interface
available to other knowledge workers. Tasktop Technologies also offers
training and consulting services to the growing number of companies adopting
the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information, please visit
http://tasktop.com
Contact:
Tasktop Technologies
Wesley Coelho, 778-588-6896
wesley.coelho@tasktop.com
This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information,
visit http://www.ereleases.com.
SOURCE Tasktop Technologies
