Bringing Eclipse Mylyn 3.0 Productivity Benefits to Development Teams



    VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 24 /EMWNews/ -- 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

    [email protected]



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