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TASKTOP CREATES OEM VERSION OF TASKTOP DEV FOR HP

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:51:02 +0000

VANCOUVER, BC, March 22, 2012 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM) automation tools, today announced that a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) version of Tasktop Dev (http://tasktop.com/support/new/index-dev22) is now embedded in HP Application Lifecycle Intelligence. With todayâ��s announcement, developers can now accelerate delivery of new innovative applications to the business by automatically provisioning their development environments. The collaboration capabilities provide application delivery teams with visibility, predictability and intelligence that ensure business continuity and customer satisfaction.Â . The enhanced offering enables end-to-end traceability across the application lifecycle. Developers can gain better visibility into data by breaking down information barriers with contextual reporting spanning the entire application lifecycle. The integration improves productivity with contextual information so that enables developers to view ALM artifacts in their IDE while coding tasks, requirements, defects and test results.Â This results in a clear understanding of the functionality needed by the code. With this integration, developers can now reduce cycle times and increase collaboration with the ability to automatically connect to their IDE of choice with new out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse as well as a wide variety of development tools including Subversion, Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Hudson, and Jenkins. This also provides developers with access to ALM artifacts right from their IDE. In addition, the new Tasktop Workspace Provisioning (tasktop.com/hp) technology enables developers to automatically provision development environments comprised of IDEs, SCM and build management systems to reduce time-consuming and administrative tasks that erode developer productivity. â��With the growing complexity and heterogeneous make up of todayâ��s ALM stacks, it is imperative that developers have a single and integrated â��pane of glassâ�� that keeps them connected to other stakeholders while staying focused on the flow of coding activity,â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO, Tasktop Technologies. "Working together with HP, we have created a seamless developer experience that brings all information connected by HP ALM into integrated development environments (IDE), from provisioning of source code for a new release to receiving a build notification from the continuous integration (CI) server of choice." â��Application development teams need to work with their choice of tools and systems without being constrained by time-consuming, administrative development tasks,â�� said Matthew Morgan, senior director, Product and Solution Marketing, Software, HP.Â â��This solution enables developers to automatically provision development environments, while enhancing context-driven collaboration across application delivery teams. This allows them to focus on what really matters â�� accelerating delivery of new, innovative applications.â�� Both Tasktop Dev, a developer desktop ALM integration, and Tasktop Sync, (http://tasktop.com/support/new/index-sync20) an ALM middleware integration, are built on the industry-standard, open source Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework. The Tasktop Dev Enterprise Edition (http://tasktop.com/support/new/index-dev22)Â provides more than 80 additional integrations beyond what is available in the OEM version of Tasktop Dev for HP.Â With Tasktop Sync, users have real-time synchronization, automatic and configurable conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen leading Agile and ALM change management tools. Building on and extending the developer-centric Tasktop Dev experience, Tasktop Syncâ��s integration with HP ALM furthers collaboration in the application lifecycle by unifying heterogeneous ALM stacks. This enables developers, testers, business analysts and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability across ALM artifacts. For more information please visit the Tasktop blog at: (http://tasktop.com/blog/news/hp-oem-announced) About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is transforming the productivity of software delivery by unifying Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and empowering developers with task-focused tools. Tasktop invented the task-focused interface and created the popular Eclipse Mylyn project, which transformed the developerâ��s IDE experience to center around ALM tool-based collaboration. Building on top of Mylyn, Tasktop has been unifying the ALM landscape with its broad ecosystem of ALM partnerships that connect disparate tools from leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source offerings. Tasktopâ��s Task Federationâ�¢ technology builds on this ecosystem to unify heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability and visibility across ALM artifacts. Its Tasktop Sync provides the only real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, making it dramatically easier for developers to work and collaborate, while keeping ALM tools up-to-date with development activity. For more information please visit: http://tasktop.com.

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Media Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13 M: 303-827-5164

COLLABNET TO SHARE ENTERPRISE BEST PRACTICES FOR AGILE AND APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT AT HP DISCOVER VIENNA 2011

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:17:57 +0000

CollabNet to showcase its deep experience leading successful continuous integration and enterprise Agile implementations with industry partners and Deutsche Post DHL

WHO: CollabNet (www.collab.net) executives will lead several sessions at the upcoming HP Discover 2011 event in Vienna focused on best practices for scaling Agile methods and continuous integration practices in the enterprise.

WHAT: Agile Adoption is Opening New Doors for Enterprise IT Groups to Work Faster and Closer Togetherâ�¦called DevOps

WHEN: Nov. 29, 2011

11:45 a.m. CET

Speakers:

Paul Peissner, director, Business Development, CollabNet

Russ King, vice president, Product Development, Results Positive, Inc.

Todd DeCapua, vice president, Services, Shunra Software Ltd.

Rainer Heinold, senior director, Technical Services, CollabNet

The Vivit Special Interest Roundtable at HP Discover will cover:

1. How DevOps improves IT through development and testing efforts focused on continuous integration including application development integrations with HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and HP Unified Functional Testing.

2. Development and release efforts focused on continuous delivery and continuous improvements including application development for HP Operations Orchestration and HP Server Automation.

3. Development and corporate alignment focused on project optimization including development cost-cutting and speeding up time-to-market, as well as Agile and HP Project and Portfolio Management integrations.

WHAT: Automation and Control of IT Run Services at Deutsche Post DHL

WHEN: Dec. 1, 2011

11:30 a.m. CET

Speakers:

Ralf Knobloch, senior expert, IT Service Control, Deutsche Post DHL

Dominique Wurzler, vice president and EMEA general manager, CollabNet

Guillaume Runser, worldwide solutions marketing manager, Software, HP

Every working day 70 million letters are delivered by Deutsche Post DHL in Germany. This requires exceptional technology and an integration of tools from the development and IT operations domains.. This case study session will outline how the organization went through a massive transformation, from common siloed processes and manual-driven IT to a reliable, consistent and automated Application Lifecycle Management platform with cloud-enabled elements. The presentation examines the implementation and deployment of a simplified governance framework through the standardization of tools, processes and requests. It will highlight the benefits Deutsche Post DHL gained with the help of automation, DevOps tools consolidation and the power of cloud computing.

WHAT: An Automated End-to-End DevOps Solution with CollabNet and HP

WHEN: Dec. 1, 2011

12:30 p.m. CET

Speakers:

Paul Peissner, director, Business Development, CollabNet

J.R. Horton, senior product line manager, Software, HP

Industry research shows that up to 80 percent of development handoffs to production are unsuccessful. This is a growing concern for IT decision makers responsible for cost-effectively meeting the changing business needs, while delivering critical undisruptive services. This session will showcase a new approach to solving the challenge of managing IT with a business-centric DevOps model. The session will show how HP Server Automation, HP Operations Orchestration, HP Application Lifecycle Management, and CollabNetâ��s TeamForge framework work together to align IT with business needs. Attendees will learn how this end-to-end solution creates graceful transitions from the business need, to IT project, to application release, and to the new business service while providing visibility, traceability and robust tracking capabilities, creating effective applications and relationships between IT and the business. Explore customer use cases that will illustrate how IT teams can increase productivity as the result of HP and CollabNet bridging the business and IT gap through defining the direction of DevOps.

WHERE: HP Discover 2011

Vienna, Austria

INFO: For more information on these presentations or to arrange an interview with CollabNet please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

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TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO OUTLINE AGILE ALM STRATEGIES WITH HP’S RAZIEL TABIB AT HP DISCOVER VIENNA 2011

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:38:48 +0000

Development professionals will learn how to manage the increasingly complex and heterogeneous set of tools and processes that make up todayâ��s ALM practices

WHO: Mik Kersten â�� CEO and founder, Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

Raziel Tabib â�� product line manager, Software, HP

(www.hp.com)

WHAT: Managing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Strategies

The reality of todayâ��s development world is agility; speed and time to market are no longer a luxury but are essential ingredients to maintaining market leadership. Organizations have to move fast and embrace changes without any compromise on quality. In order to execute successfully on such goals, organizational process and culture will need to adjust. During this session, Kersten and Tabib will outline and demonstrate how HP and Tasktop provide development managers with visibility and traceability across heterogeneous tools, processes and technologies to address challenges and provide best practices for organizations. Wherever development teams are located and whatever tools or technologies they work with, HP ALM solutions can serve as a single system of record, providing development managers with the intelligence they need to increase quality and shorten release cycles.

WHEN: Thurs., Dec. 1, 2011 â�� 12:30 p.m. CET

WHERE: HP Discover 2011

Vienna, Austria

INFO: For more information and to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO PRESENT WITH HP’S VICTORIA VOINIGESCU AT AGILE 2011 CONFERENCE

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:22:31 +0000

Kersten and Voinigescu to explain why continuous delivery loop fails to take into account the need for bi-directional communication with quality assurance

WHO: Mik Kersten

CEO of Tasktop Technologies

Creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project

Tasktop Technologies

(www.tasktop.com)

Victoria Voinigescu

Product Manager

HP Software

(www.hp.com)

WHAT: "Solving the 1-10-100 Problem: Extending Continuous Delivery to QA and Ops"

In many medium and large organizations, friction between Agile application development, quality assurance, and operation teams kills productivity. During their presentation, Kersten and Voinigescu will discuss how the typical continuous delivery loop fails to take into account the need for bi-directional communication with QA. The growing role of IT operations in the application lifecycle means it needs to be connected to the same continuous delivery loop, and be linked directly into the Agile planning processes. The presenters will explore how extending the collaboration loop to operations potentially flattens the exponential 1-10-100 cost curve into a linear one.

WHEN: Wed., Aug., 10, 2011

3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Mountain

WHERE: Agile 2011

(http://agile2011.agilealliance.org/)

Grand America Hotel

555 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Stage: Testing and Quality Assurance

Venue: LA: Idaho Room

CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with Mik Kersten, please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

TASKTOP RECEIVES 2011 HP ALLIANCEONE PARTNER OF THE YEAR AWARD AND CERTIFICATION FROM HP

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:26:22 +0000

Tasktop recognized for its commitment to the HP developer community through Agile ALM integrations and productivity gains

VANCOUVER, BC and LAS VEGAS (HP Discover, BOOTH #552) - June 7, 2011 - Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tools and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) automation and interoperability, today announced it has received the 2011 AllianceONE Partner of the Year Award from HP in the category of: Innovative Partner - Enterprise Management Alliance Program (EMAP). The awards are presented to an exclusive set of HP alliance partners in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in the development and delivery of innovative solutions that achieve standard-setting levels for business excellence and client satisfaction.

In addition, Tasktop Enterprise is now certified to complement and improve the capability of HP Software Services for ALM and HP Quality Center software. HP certification signifies that HP has tested Tasktop Enterprise against established criteria and verified its compatibility with HP software. The certification process involves significant of interactive integration testing by the HP software certification team in cooperation with Tasktop's development team.

Tasktop Enterprise connects HP ALM and HP Quality Center software with the developer's home environments for improved productivity and traceability between HP ALM and more than 50 development management tools. Serving as an ALM interoperability and automation suite, it has become the standard for integrating development tools and platforms, helping reduce the complexity and challenges of successfully scaling Agile programs beyond small teams. Organizations using Tasktop are able to integrate and gain added value from heterogeneous systems, improve the happiness and productivity of development teams, and integrate and manage emerging technology platforms, such as cloud computing and mobile applications, into existing development practices.

"This outstanding recognition from HP acknowledges the value Tasktop Enterprise delivers to organizations scaling and extending Agile ALM practices to developers, QA, and managers," said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. "We look forward to our continued support of the HP developer community as we work to bridge the gap between disparate teams in across the IT organization."

"To manage the changing demands of their customers, organizations have to accelerate time to market and time to business value," said Duncan Campbell, vice president, Converged Infrastructure, HP. "HP, with partners like Tasktop, helps break down rigid IT silos with infrastructure specifically engineered to drive out cost and provide the foundation for agile service delivery."

About Tasktop Technologies

Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Enterprise is the company's commercial product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email, calendars and commercial ALM components. Tasktop also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information, please visit (www.tasktop.com).

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Catapult PR-IR

cdennistion@catapultpr-ir.com

O: 303-584-7760, ext. 13

M: 303-827-5164

TASKTOP TO DELIVER ECLIPSE MYLYN FOR HP QUALITY CENTER

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:26:21 +0000

TASKTOP TO DELIVER ECLIPSE MYLYN FOR HP QUALITY CENTER

New connector provides full Eclipse Mylyn IDE integration for developers and testers using the Eclipse IDE

Munich (W-JAX 2010), Nov. 15, 2010 - Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, today announced a collaboration with HP to develop the Tasktop HP Quality Center Mylyn Connector. The new connector will integrate Mylyn's task-focused interface technology with HP Quality Center, resulting in improved developer productivity from requirements through defects by providing integrations with leading commercial and open source ALM platforms and Eclipse IDE.

"HP Quality Center is one of the most widely used quality management solutions by our customers," said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. "Connecting the IDE environment directly with HP Quality Center will make it dramatically easier for developers to collaborate and connect their development process with HP's leading quality management tools."

The HP Quality Center Connector will fully support Tasktop's award-winning productivity technology called the task-focused interface, which automatically tracks and presents the "context" of source code, documents and web pages that are most relevant for a given defect, story or task. This will improve developer productivity by making it effortless to multitask and recover from interruptions with a single click. The end result is that developers will no longer have to waste time repeatedly searching and scrolling for the information they need to write code, since the IDE shows only the relevant information.

Thanks to the Tasktop Certified integration program, the new connector will also extend HP Quality Center integration with more than 50 leading development solutions, including commercial platforms from Accept, Atlassian, CollabNet, IBM, Polarion, Rally Software, ThoughtWorks Studios and VersionOne, and open source tools such as Bugzilla, Hudson and Subversion. Tasktop Certification ensures compliance with guidelines for completeness, UI design and interoperability and enables discovery and installation of the integration from within the Eclipse IDE itself via the Mylyn Connector Discovery.

"As Agile practices become mainstream, it is vital that quality management and developer tools integrate to address application risks early in the life cycle," said Jonathan Rende, vice president and general manager, Business Technology Optimization Applications, Software and Solutions, HP. "With integrations between HP Quality Center and Eclipse Mylyn, software developers and QA teams will be able to effectively speed the time for development and increase the quality of their applications."

Availability
The Tasktop Certified HP Quality Center Mylyn Connector is bundled with the fully supported Tasktop Enterprise product, which provides advanced productivity features and integrations with commercial ALM solutions. Tasktop Enterprise with the HP Quality Center Connector will be available November 30, 2010, along with a free version of the basic Eclipse IDE integration version and integration support for open source tools including SVN and Hudson. Tasktop will be demonstrating the Connector at its booth at HP Software Universe 2010 in Barcelona. (http://h41112.www4.hp.com/events/software-universe-2010).

About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Pro is the company's enterprise-ready product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Tasktop Technologies also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information please visit www.tasktop.com.

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Media Contact:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com
O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
M: 303-827-5164