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Tasktop Bolsters ALM Automation Leadership with Addition of New Product Management and Solutions Architecture Directors

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:29:48 +0000

Company continues to add highly experienced technical talent to manage and accommodate strong growth and market momentumÂ

VANCOUVER , BC â�� April 16, 2012 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation solutions, today announced the expansion of the companyâ��s product management team with the appointment of Nicole Bryan as product management director and Lance Knight as director of solutions architect, effective immediately.Â Both positions will report directly to Tasktopâ��s president and COO, Neelan Choksi. â��We are very pleased to welcome Nicole and Lance to our rapidly growing organization, and believe their experience of walking the line between business and technical stakeholders is an essential part of meeting Tasktopâ��s mission of transforming software development and delivery,â�� said Choksi. Â â��Both Nicole and Lance have proven track records that will help strengthen our leadership and organizational infrastructure to better meet the current and future demands of our customers and our growing ecosystem of software partners.Â â�� Bryan brings more than 15 years of product management experience for large software companies to her new role at Tasktop. She has an extensive technical background focused on data analytics, business intelligence, data visualization and software development processes. Prior to joining Tasktop, she served as director of product marketing and management at Micro Focus, formerly Borland Software. Â She also served as director of regulatory technology for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Knight brings nearly 25 years of software development and executive-level sales expertise to Tasktop. He joined the company from Accept Corporation, where he served as senior director of global solutions consulting. In Knightâ��s career, he has shown success as a manager and as an individual contributor helping customers derive tremendous value from their software investments.Â In his role leading the solutions architecture team, Knight will serve as a key technical advocate to actively drive the positioning of Tasktopâ��s enterprise software solutions to clients. Tasktop continues to solve major challenges for software organizations that are implementing enterprise-wide Agile and ALM modernization initiatives by connecting both developers, through Tasktop Dev, and cross-functional enterprise teams, through Tasktop Sync, to automate the entire application lifecycle. In addition, Tasktop recently launched Sync Studio, an extension of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform that makes it dramatically easier for organizations to connect, configure and maintain medium- and large-scale ALM infrastructures. Offered as a new component of Tasktop Sync, Sync Studio provides visual cross-ALM system task and workflow mapping, ALM architecture design, monitoring tools to ease integration maintenance and alert notifications for project and system administrators. All Tasktop products leverage the Eclipse Mylyn task-based integration framework to provide a more strategic and lightweight synchronization solution than standard REST API and pure data-store integrations. Its tools provide visibility into ALM work flow, real-time data sharing of cross-function activities and context into actual performance and business value. Connect With Others About this Story: Tweet This: Tasktop announces new appointments @nicolebryan and @lancedknight to @Tasktop #productmanagement and #engineering team #ALM #Agile Helpful Links

About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industryâ��s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktopâ��s commercial and open source solutions to connect developers, testers, business analysts and project managers who use a wide variety of Agile and ALM tools hosted both on premise and in the cloud.Â By automating and connecting the software lifecycle, Tasktop is solving one of the biggest challenge facing large-scale software delivery organizations â�� the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Its Task Federationâ�¢ technology delivers on the promise of a unified ALM stack through a partner ecosystem that integrates more than 70 disparate ALM tools with real-time connectivity and cross-repository workflow support.Â Tasktop created and leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, with more than 1 million downloads per month, upon which its commercial Tasktop Sync ALM middleware and Tasktop Dev IDE tools. All Tasktop tools are built to enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in todayâ��s software-driven economy by providing the ALM Automationâ�¢ needed to gain visibility, predictability and productivity across the software development lifecycle.Â For more information, visit (http://tasktop.com).

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Tasktop’s New Sync Studio Provides First Visual ALM Mapping and Monitoring Tool for ALM Architects

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:24:14 +0000

Â IT Organizations Gain New Levels of Visibility into Heterogeneous ALM Architectures to Author and Manage Task and Data Flow between Best-of-Breed ALM Tools

VANCOUVER and RESTON VA (EclipseCon 2012, Booth #25), March 27, 2012 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation solutions, today announced Sync Studio, an extension of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform that makes it dramatically easier for organizations to connect, configure and maintain medium- and large-scale ALM infrastructures. Offered as a new component of Tasktop Sync, Sync Studio provides visual cross-ALM system task and workflow mapping, ALM architecture design, monitoring tools to ease integration maintenance and alert notifications for project and system administrators. â��As weâ��ve been rolling out Tasktop Sync over the past year to IT organizations trying to automate Agile ALM and DevOps architectures across the enterprise, the process of taking inventory and managing integrations between all of their disparate tools has become extremely messy, frustrating and time-consuming,â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. â��Sync Studio makes it possible for software delivery organizations to gain control of this chaos by providing a single tool for viewing the design, integration and performance of todayâ��s complex ALM architectures with an easy-to-use visual design and authoring tool.â�� Tasktop continues to solve major challenges for software organizations that are implementing enterprise-wide Agile and ALM modernization initiatives by connecting both developers, through Tasktop Dev, and cross-functional enterprise teams, through Tasktop Sync, to automate the entire application lifecycle. All Tasktop products leverage the Eclipse Mylyn task-based integration framework to provide a more strategic and lightweight synchronization solution than standard REST API and pure data-store integrations. Its tools provide visibility into ALM work flow, real-time data sharing of cross-function activities and context into actual performance and business value. With Sync Studio, the company continues to help IT organizations synchronize and automate development processes to deliver market value quicker, reduce inefficiencies and promote collaboration and innovation by connecting individuals and teams across the enterprise. â��Standard integration of ALM tools is typically limited since it only addresses point-to-point functionality and can then lack the comprehensive visibility, interoperability and traceability needed for a fully synchronized ALM tool stack,â�� said Melinda Ballou, program director for the Application Lifecycle Management and Executive Strategies service at IDC, a research advisory firm headquartered in Framingham, MA. â��With software driving innovation and with challenges resulting from complex ALM infrastructure, complex sourcing and silo-ed departments, IT organizations need to be able to architect and gain control of automated ALM solutions. This automation is sorely needed to help drive effective software delivery and competitive benefits.â�� To help IT organizations scale Tasktop Sync deployments and better manage the growing number of ALM systems in a typical tool stack, Sync Studio provides a whole new set of ALM infrastructure management tools. Capabilities include:

A Unified View across the ALM Stack: Sync Studio presents ALM architects and administrators with a comprehensive and â��liveâ�� architectural view of current tools and processes, and the associated interdependencies and roadblocks that need to be addressed.
Visual Mapping for ALM Administrators: Sync Studio provides automated mapping capabilities for ALM administrators to author and configure task, data and workflow connectivity and integration between ALM servers.
Cross-repository Monitoring and Administration: Sync Studio helps maintain the health and performance of enterprise-wide ALM architectures through the regular monitoring of inter-tool functionality and centralized administration of changes, maintenance, trouble-shooting and alert notifications.
End-to-end Traceability for the Lifecycle: through its Task Federation platform, Sync Studio provides complete ALM traceability that is available through the visual mapping and visibility capabilities now available in the tool.

In addition to Sync Studio, Tasktop also is introducing Tasktop Sync 2.3 with new integrations for ThoughtWorksâ�� Mingle and Accept360, as well as an updated Mylyn-based Sync integration for IBM Rational Team Concert. It is part of a coordinated Tasktop rollout that also includes Tasktop Dev 2.3 and builds on the new Eclipse Mylyn 3.7. Tasktop Dev now includes support for Gerrit and the Jenkins continuous integration server, and new workspace provisioning tools for HP ALM. With these additions, Tasktop now supports more than 70 ALM tools. Availability Tasktop Sync 2.3 with Sync Studio is being demonstrated now at EclipseCon 2012 (http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/) and will be generally available on April 17.Â Tasktop Dev 2.3 is available today. About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industryâ��s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktopâ��s commercial and open source solutions to connect developers, testers, business analysts and project managers who use a wide variety of Agile and ALM tools hosted both on premise and in the cloud.Â By automating and connecting the software lifecycle, Tasktop is solving one of the biggest challenge facing large-scale software delivery organizations â�� the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Its Task Federationâ�¢ technology delivers on the promise of a unified ALM stack through a partner ecosystem that integrates more than 70 disparate ALM tools with real-time connectivity and cross-repository workflow support.Â Tasktop created and leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, with more than 1 million downloads per month, upon which its commercial Tasktop Sync ALM middleware and Tasktop Dev IDE tools. All Tasktop tools are built to enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in todayâ��s software-driven economy by providing the ALM Automationâ�¢ needed to gain visibility, predictability and productivity across the software development lifecycle.Â For more information, visit http://tasktop.com.

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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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TASKTOP AND BORLAND TO PRESENT WEBINAR ON TRANSFORMING DEVELOPMENT VISIBILITY AND PRODUCTIVITY

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:35:31 +0000

Webinar outlines how developers and managers benefit from broad ALM interoperability and the most modern IDE experience for StarTeam 12

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

Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface.Â At Tasktop he provides the Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Stuart McGill â�� General Manager of Borland Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â (www.borland.com)

As general manager of Borland and CTO of Micro Focus, McGill is responsible for shaping future product innovations and bringing world-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â class software solutions to market.

WHAT:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Transforming Development Visibility and Productivity with BorlandÂ StarTeam 12.0 and Tasktop In a climate of decentralized software tools, a widely integrated project management platform is critical for increased collaboration and enhanced visibility. During this webinar, Kersten and McGill will outline how Tasktop Sync delivers interoperability between StarTeam and many other ALM systems for unprecedented visibility across teams and tools. Kersten and McGill will further explain how Tasktop Dev provides developers with the most modern and integrated experience for StarTeam. The webinar will include live demonstrations showing how both developers and managers benefit from unified access to multiple repositories from within StarTeam or the IDE, all without disrupting existing systems. WHEN:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tue., Feb. 7, 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. PST INFO: To register for this webinar please visit: (http://www.microfocus.com/starteam12). To arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES ENJOYS BREAKOUT YEAR IN 2011 AS AGILE ALM INTEGRATION HITS CRITICAL MASS

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:17:09 +0000

Enterprise IT organizations turn to Tasktop to synchronize ALM tool stacks and improve productivity, collaboration and software delivery velocity

VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 20, 2011 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tools and a leader in Agile ALM integration and productivity, experienced strong organic growth during 2011 as maturing Agile development practices mandate tighter integration of project management, quality assurance, release management and development tools to achieve success at the enterprise level. Tasktop responded to this growing need with the launch of Tasktop Sync, the most powerful and broadest reaching synchronization server that unifies ALM tool stacks and provides team members working throughout the application lifecycle the ability to collaborate across functions within their tool of choice.

â��By focusing on the needs of the developer and creating the Mylyn open source frameworks, we long ago established ourselves as the leaders of ALM integration. But it was not until this yearâ��s release of Tasktop Sync that we were able to meet the ALM integration needs of mid and large scale Agile deployments and ALM modernizations.â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. â��The interest and adoption of Tasktop Sync since that release has been tremendous, and indicative that integration has now become a leading concern of ALM deployments. For a growing number of industries like banking, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing, software is becoming a core aspect of what they do, and many organizations need the cross-vendor traceability, visibility and collaboration that Tasktop provides.â��

Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tasktop now has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, and has seen its staff grow to more than 30 employees. In 2011, it was named a Best Company to Work for in British Columbia and Best Employer by Small Business British Columbia, was a finalist for the prestigious software industry Jolt Award and received the 2011 AllianceONE Partner of the Year Award from HP. Tasktop now offers integrations with more than 80 leading open source, Agile and enterprise ALM suites recently adding or expanding integrations with Borland StarTeam, Accept360, Microsoft Visual Studio, and IBM Rational Team Concert.

Both Tasktop Sync and Tasktop Dev (for desktop productivity and integration) are built on the industry-standard, open source Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework. Tasktop Sync provides real-time synchronization, automatic and configurable conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen ALM tools. It unifies heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers, business analysts and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability across ALM artifacts. Built on the companyâ��s Task Federationâ�¢ technology, Tasktop Sync brings task federation to ALM servers, by providing the only real-time, bi-directional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev supports Tasktop Sync by federating tasks and other ALM artifacts on the developerâ��s Eclipse and Visual Studio desktops.

The companyâ��s thought leadership also was very strong during 2011, with Kersten and other Tasktop experts presenting more than 30 times at leading industry events, including CeBIT, EclipseCon, JAX, JavaOne, IBM Innovate, Agile2011, Microsoft ALM Summit, SQE East and HP Discover. Kersten also is sought-after source for media and industry analysts, and contributes to a widely read blog at (http://tasktop.com/blog/). In 2011, Tasktop was active in the open source community with contributions and support for more than a dozen open source projects.

â��Tasktop is helping a growing number of enterprise IT customers build better software faster and more efficiently,â�� said Neelan Choksi, Tasktopâ��s president and chief operating officer. â��Over the past year, we made significant strides, nearly doubling our revenue and headcount. In conjunction with our ever-growing and deepening ecosystem of partners, we are advancing the productivity of software teams and IT organizations. The next year will be even more exciting and rewarding as we roll out new, innovative technology that helps bring teams together by expanding not just across the software development stack but beyond to an even broader set of constituents.â��

For more information on Tasktop Sync or Dev please visit: (www.tasktop.com).

About Tasktop Technologies

Tasktop Technologies aims to transform 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. The companyâ��s 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 visit http://www.tasktop.comÂ

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TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES NEW SYNC 2.0 PROVIDES ALM ARCHITECTURE MAPPING AND APPLICATION LIFECYCLE LINKING VIA OSLC

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:27:04 +0000

Tasktop continues to bring order and increased productivity from disparate and disconnected Agile ALM tool stacks within enterprise IT organizations

VANCOUVER , BC Nov. 28, 2011 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a global leader in ALM integration and developer tools, today announced Tasktop Sync 2.0, the latest version of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform that allows IT organizations to synchronize existing ALM servers from multiple vendors and open source projects. Tasktop Sync 2.0 makes it even easier for administrators to manage their ALM synchronizations through powerful visual tools and extends integration support via change management artifact linking via the Open Services for Lifecycle Management (OSLC) interoperability protocols.

â��Complex sourcing has become the norm for most companies â�� including off-shoring and open source â�� and deployment across a multitude of platforms, such as mobile, embedded, cloud and on-premise, drives software development challenges,â�� said Melinda Ballou, program director for IDC's Application lifecycle Management (ALM) service. â��In this context, lack of coordination across lifecycle management phases and automation undermines business innovation and agility. Companies urgently need ways to effectively connect a broad range of lifecycle tools to enable visibility, metrics and control.â��

Tasktop Sync is built on the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework to provide real-time synchronization, automatic and configurable conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen ALM tools. It unifies heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers, business analysts and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability across ALM artifacts. Built on the companyâ��s Task Federationâ�¢ technology, Tasktop Sync brings task federation to ALM servers, by providing the only real-time, bi-directional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. The companyâ��s Tasktop Dev product line supports Tasktop Sync by federating tasks and other ALM artifacts on the developerâ��s Eclipse and Visual Studio desktops.

â��Medium and large organizationsâ�� ALM stacks have become so diverse and disconnected that the lack of traceability and cross-stakeholder collaboration has become the bottleneck of large-scale software delivery,â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. â��Tasktop has spearheaded a new approach to connecting stakeholders in the application lifecycle, making it possible to capture an organizationâ��s ALM architecture in a single tool and deliver real-time connectivity and traceability across a wide variety of open source, commercial and legacy ALM systems.â�� (To read Mik Kerstenâ��s blog post on this announcement please visit: (http://tasktop.com/blog/news/tasktop-sync-2-0-released)

Tasktop Sync 2.0 includes several innovations for connecting ALM stacks and stakeholders. It provides new visual tools that allow ALM architects and administrators to connect to ALM repositories, conduct introspective analysis of repository schemas and intelligently connect previously disconnected tools via ALM artifact mappings. In addition to artifact synchronization, Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides a new software lifecycle artifact linking facility built on the OSLC ALM interoperability protocols to serve as a broker for linking ALM artifacts

Based on Tasktopâ��s continued collaboration with IBM to define the OSLC protocols, Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides OSLC-based REST API access to more than 20 Tasktop Certifiedâ�¢ Mylyn connectors as well as dozens of other community-driven or in-house Mylyn connectors. For example, organization using IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools in the ALM stack, such as Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirements Composer, can now link with artifacts from a broad range of third-party and open-source ALM tools, such as HP ALM and Quality Center, Atlassian JIRA and Mozilla Bugzilla. OSLC linking extends Tasktop Syncâ��s synchronization facilities to support live connectivity and embedding of ALM artifacts in a similar way that social networking tools can embed each otherâ��s feeds (e.g., Twitter within Facebook).

New Features in Tasktop Sync 2.0 include:

â�¢ Sync Quick start wizard to dramatically reduce the time to set up the first synchronization.

â�¢ Visual editor for configuring synchronization mappings.

â�¢ Fine-grained and automated conflict resolution and handling.

â�¢ Full support for custom fields, rich text and wiki transformations, attachments and user mappings.

â�¢ Synchronization support for all common ALM artifacts, including defects, tasks, work items, test summaries and requirements.

â�¢ Unlimited mappings and repositories to connect large-scale ALM stacks with numerous servers and tools.

â�¢ Bi-directional synchronization of task associations, ALM artifact hierarchies, and complex fields

â�¢ Groovy-based scripting support for complex field transformations.

â�¢ For IBM CLM users, full support for IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) synchronization rules and mappings, allowing administrators to update mappings within RTC.

In addition, Tasktop announced the availability of Tasktop Dev 2.2 that brings new connectivity for developers using HP ALM and Quality Center. Tasktop Dev 2.2 builds on HPâ��s Application Lifecycle Intelligence (ALI) feature to provide instant workspace provisioning for developers using Eclipse. Now, developers can simply connect to a release in HP ALM, and Tasktopâ��s Task Federation facilities load into the workspace the SCM and Continuous Integration (CI) artifacts needed to work on the release, for example, source code from Subversion or builds from Hudson/Jenkins. Tasktop Dev 2.2 also extends HP ALI traceability automation to ClearCase.

Availability

Tasktop Sync 2.0 and Tasktop Dev 2.2 are both available for download tomorrow. Tasktop Sync is offered through perpetual licenses with annual support and maintenance, or annual subscriptions. As a limited-time introductory offer, Tasktop Sync is available as a bundle with Tasktop Dev (Enterprise Edition) for $199 per user, per year. More information is available at (http://tasktop.com/sync).

About Tasktop Technologies

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TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN PRESENTS WEBINAR ON DEPLOYING TASKTOP SYNC TO UNIFY HETEROGENEOUS ALM STACKS

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:16:50 +0000

Webinar outlines how enterprise software organizations can integrate and synchronize heterogeneous ALM stacks to remove silos and improve collaboration and productivity

WHO: Mik Kersten - CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.

WHAT: Synchronizing the ALM Stack for Enterprise Development Webinar

In modern application development and delivery, heterogeneous best-of-breed ALM stacks have become the norm. Driven by open source, outsourcing, remote development and testing, Agile tools, IT decentralization, and in larger organizations, mergers and acquisitions, tool fragmentation is here to stay. In today's competitive environment, there is little incentive for software vendors to provide more than check-box integration solutions, making it nearly impossible for organizations to gain traceability and visibility - from requirements to source code. During this webinar, Kersten will outline successful strategies and demonstrate how Tasktop Sync solves these challenges. He will show how Tasktop Sync connects development, QA, and Agile project management together through its industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework. Unlike previous approaches to ALM synchronization, Tasktop Sync provides real-time synchronization, automated conflict resolution and support for more than two dozen ALM systems. Building on Tasktop's Task Federation^TM technology, Tasktop Sync ensures that each stakeholder has access to the data that they need within their tool of choice.

WHEN: Wed., Sept 28, 9 - 10 a.m. PST

INFO: To register for this webinar please visit: (http://tinyurl.com/3o4a5dw). Updates from the webinar will be available by following the live Twitter feed at #TaskSync. To learn more about Tasktop Sync please visit (http://www.tasktop.com/sync). To arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com.