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TASKTOP INTRODUCES TASKTOP SYNC CONNECTOR FOR CA CLARITY PPM™ AT CA WORLD

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:37:02 +0000

New connector connects business and development disciplines

CA WORLD, LAS VEGAS, NV, April 21, 2013, Tasktop Technologies, the industry leader for ALM integration, today announced Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM at the CA World 2013 conference. The new connector extends Tasktop integration capabilities to CA Technologies portfolio and project management product, CA Clarity™ PPM, to connect portfolio and project management disciplines to software development. The integration of CA Clarity PPM with the software delivery tool chain will help IT organizations synchronize business priorities with development activities and progress. The result is reduced project completion times by ensuring efforts are allocated to the highest priority activities, elimination of costly and error-prone manual processes, and comprehensive cross-discipline reporting that will facilitate better collaboration between the PMO and development teams. “The adoption of Lean approaches to software delivery has dramatically increased the iteration speed of software projects and introduced a new set of developer-centric task management tools,” said Mik Kersten, co-founder and CEO of Tasktop. “To ensure that software delivery is connected to strategy, it is key to integrate the tools used by the PMO to those used for software development. Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM provides real-time integration between these two tool chains, ensuring the software delivery process meets business goals and objectives, and becomes the basis for competitive advantage.” Tasktop Sync provides real-time, bi-directional and fully automated synchronization between ALM tools. It is already included with CA Clarity Agile and CA Clarity Requirements. With the new Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM, organizations have the ability to extend the overall Clarity integration capabilities to connect CA Clarity PPM with third-party tools used throughout the software lifecycle. The technology will help development organizations become better connected with business activities that were previously separated by process, tooling and culture gaps. Business stakeholders will benefit by having a more meaningful role in the development process due to improved visibility and timely status updates. Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM provides the following: • Progress and status reporting – closes the loop on status reporting, with CA Clarity PPM being able to report on work items that are being updated in other tools. • Visibility – provides automated cross-function visibility and traceability between CA Clarity PPM and software development work items throughout the lifecycle. • Control– ensures that development efforts are in sync with business objectives and that status changes are recognized and managed in the appropriate tool. • Productivity – removes the manual steps that connect the PMO to development by providing automated integration between disparate groups. Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM will be available on May 10th and demos of the technology are available at Tasktop booth #253 at CA World 2013. This first release will include support for connecting CA Clarity PPM to IBM Rational Team Concert, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Atlassian JIRA, HP Quality Center and HP ALM. Share this: #Tasktop new Sync Connector for #CA Clarity PPM at #CAworld bridges dev and business, #PPM in #Agile www.tasktop.com About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industry leader for ALM integration. It invented the task-focused interface and created the Eclipse Mylyn project, which transformed the IDE into a developer productivity and ALM collaboration platform. Building on Mylyn, Tasktop unifies the ALM landscape through ALM partnerships that connect leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source tools. Commercially, Tasktop Sync provides real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers, and Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs. Tasktop recently launched the Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) initiative to connect the entire software delivery lifecycle, consisting of a new technical architecture and data model, repeatable design patterns and a new open source project called Eclipse Mylyn m4. For more information about Tasktop and SLI please visit: http://tasktop.com

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TASKTOP ANNOUNCES ‘SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE INTEGRATION’ – INTRODUCES COMMON DATA MODEL, TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE AND NEW ECLIPSE MYLYN M4 OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:47:04 +0000

Tasktop announces a new kind of infrastructure for connecting the software lifecycle to help enterprises achieve cross-discipline collaboration and lean Application Lifecycle Management

VANCOUVER, March 25, 2013, Tasktop Technologies, the industry leader for ALM integration, today announced Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI), an open initiative that aims – at the industry level – to address the growing fragmentation and complexity enterprises face in large-scale software delivery. SLI is Tasktop’s “manifesto” for the integrated software lifecycle, summarized from its work with enterprise customers and industry partners to form a new industry discipline. The announcement includes the publication of a common technical architecture and data model, repeatable integration patterns, an integration pattern catalog, and a new Eclipse Mylyn m4 open source project to support SLI that is being proposed this week at the EclipseCon Boston 2013 conference.

For complete information on Software Lifecycle Integration and its technical architecture, data model and integration patterns and the open source project please visit (www.tasktop.com/sli).

“Despite a decade of efforts to modernize the software tool chain, we have failed to realize the promise of ALM due to a lack of an integration infrastructure that connects vendors, open source tools and software suppliers,” said Mik Kersten, CEO for Tasktop. “Software Lifecycle Integration is the culmination of years of collaboration with enterprise IT organizations, open source developers, ISV partners and industry thought leaders. We are all committed to automating the lifecycle processes that will, in turn, bring the benefits of social coding to the entire organization and pave the way for a lean software supply chain.”

“Agile creates the need to break down the barriers between disciplines. But software delivery tools add to the barriers,” said Ken Schwaber, founder of Scrum.org. “The time is right for organizations to start thinking about connecting tools more strategically to enable the practice of software delivery to flow.”

Faced with increasingly complex tool chains, outsourced development and the need to deliver more software with less, SLI will provide software organizations with the infrastructure to connect the software delivery and maintenance process. Its intent is to rally the industry around a common set of technical and process disciplines to enable software delivery professionals, project managers, operations and the PMO to work effectively together by maximizing the flow of information between software delivery tools and practices.

The foundation of SLI is based on the abstraction of the social task – or all of the related and interconnected activities that make up the software development, delivery and maintenance process. This expands upon the data flow models associated with traditional ALM that center on core development artifacts. SLI provides the technical architecture – implemented as an ALM integration bus – to create a central flow for software delivery.

Tasktop, together with a growing community of customer, partner and industry supporters, have developed and will make available the core components of SLI, including:

• SLI Technical Architecture: a set of architectural principles, design patterns and a roadmap to get the new role of the Lifecycle Architect started within organizations needing to connect the software delivery process. • SLI Data Model: A common model and taxonomy that provides the key abstraction mechanisms needed for an organization to implement SLI. • SLI Integration Patterns: useful and repeatable design patterns that will help architects streamline the automation and SLI process. • Eclipse Mylyn m4: new open source project that will implement the SLI data model and provide the runtimes required to embed SLI into integrated ALM applications. The project will be server-side focused (de-coupled from the Mylyn client) and also serve as the bridge between the SLI data model and existing standards, such as OSLC.

Based on specific engagements and collaborative technical architectural development, SLI will greatly improve:

Insight: Unlock data trapped in ALM siloes for end-to-end visibility and analytics. Deploy a build-measure-learn loop from idea to deployment. Automate end-to-end traceability, governance and compliance.

Choice: Integrate best-of-breed, open source, legacy and enterprise Agile tools. Connect stakeholders within and across the organization. Connect the software supply chain.

Flow: Enable cross-stakeholder collaboration via social tasks. Capture the social conversation of software delivery.

“Similar to the benefits that we saw with enterprise services buses, we will be able to connect heterogeneous ALM stacks and create the connected lifecycle,” said Dave West, Tasktop’s Chief Product Officer. “Tool vendors will have the ability to integrate their solutions with entrenched and best-of-breed tools, and practitioners will have the ability to use their tool of choice. The lack of integration has become the main bottleneck in software delivery and this initiative takes a community approach to solving this problem once-and-for-all.” Share this: #Tasktop introduces solution to #ALM and #Agile complexity with Software Lifecycle Integration, #SLI www.tasktop.com/sli About Software Lifecycle Integration SLI is the ALM discipline that describes how to connect software delivery professionals, systems and suppliers. It makes teams and organizations more effective by maximizing the flow of information between siloed software delivery tools and practices.

About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industry leader for ALM integration. It invented the task-focused interface and created the Eclipse Mylyn project, which transformed the IDE into a developer productivity and ALM collaboration platform. Building on Mylyn, Tasktop unifies the ALM landscape through ALM partnerships that connect leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source tools. Commercially, Tasktop Sync provides real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers, and Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs. Tasktop recently launched the Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) initiative to connect the entire software delivery lifecycle, consisting of a new technical architecture and data model, repeatable design patterns and a new open source project called Eclipse Mylyn m4. For more information about Tasktop and SLI please visit: http://tasktop.com

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TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES’ GROWTH IN INTEGRATING THE SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE LEADS TO SECOND LISTING AS ‘READY TO ROCKET’ COMPANY

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:45:51 +0000

Ready to Rocket recognizes top, private British Columbia companies poised for revenue growth

VANCOUVER, BC, March 21, 2013 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tools and a leader in Agile ALM integration and productivity today announced it has been named to Ready to Rocket’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) list for the second year in a row (www.readytorocket.com). The list is comprised of fast growing, private companies in the British Columbia, technology sector. “Tasktop is committed to growing an industry-changing tech company in British Columbia,” said Mik Kersten, creator or Eclipse Mylyn and CEO of Tasktop. “Last year was great one for the company, and it’s fantastic to see our employees recognized by Ready to Rocket for their hard work as we plan for an even bigger 2013.” Tasktop plays a vital role in the information technology industry. It solves a major challenge for enterprises who increasingly have to deliver software as a core activity of what they do through its tools and platforms that integrate the data flow between disparate people, processes and technologies. One of the hottest companies in the software development sector, it is self-funded and continues to grow organically. It currently has more than 50 employees working in offices in Vancouver, Austin, Texas and throughout Europe. Tasktop has received a variety of awards recognizing its success and innovation, including a spot on Ready to Rocket’s 2012 ICT list and a Technology Impact Award for Emerging Company of the Year in 2012 (www.bctia.org). The Ready to Rocket lists require several months of detailed analysis. These unique, predictive compilations analyze trends and select companies positioned to exceed industry growth rates. Businesses on the 2012 ICT list saw a median growth rate of 50 percent, proving the research integrity. Aside from the ICT list, Ready to Rocket also compiles a Cleantech list and a Life Sciences list. “Each year when we choose the Ready to Rocket companies, we are looking for those companies that have best matched technical innovation with market opportunity,” said Reg Nordman, Managing Partner at Rocket Builders. “Tasktop is an excellent example of the right technology for the right customers at the right time.” The ICT list was revealed to more than 100 investors, government officials, lawyers and accountants at an event at the Library Square Conference Centre in Vancouver, BC on March 12, 2013. Share This Story: #Tasktop named to #ReadyToRocket ICT List for #revenue #growth potential www.readytorocket.com About Ready to Rocket Ready to Rocket is a unique business recognition list that profiles technology companies with the greatest potential for revenue growth. Each year, based on analysis of trends that will drive growth in the information technology sector, Rocket Builders identifies the top private companies that are best positioned to capitalize on the trends for growth. This selection methodology has been an accurate predictor of growth with "Ready to Rocket" companies exceeding the industry growth rate. Also, many of these companies raise investment capital and each year many of the profiled "Ready to Rocket' companies are acquired. (http://www.readytorocket.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 developer’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. Tasktop’s Task Federation™ 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 company’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://tasktop.com

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TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN AND DAVE WEST TO DISCUSS ALM INDUSTRY TRENDS AND SHARE LIFECYCLE INTEGRATION EXPERTISE AT ECLIPSECON 2013

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:34:03 +0000

Industry luminaries Kersten and West to speak on ALM’s role in the software development industry during EclipseCon 2013 panels and presentations

Who:

Mik Kersten CEO and founder Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

Kersten is the creator of products that have been transforming application development and lifecycle management tools, including Eclipse Mylyn, Tasktop Dev, and Tasktop Sync. He also is involved in open source community and standards efforts, and serves as a member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors and the Open Services for Lifecycle (OSLC) Steering Committee.

Dave West Chief Product Officer Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

West is instrumental in building Tasktop into a transformative business that is driving major improvements in the software industry. He leads the strategic direction of the company’s product line and helps to define Tasktop’s market position. He is a former industry analyst at Forrester Research and former product manager for the Rational Unified Process at IBM. In addition, West serves on the program committee for EclipseCon.

What:

Lifecycle Integration – The Secret Sauce of ALM Success Presenters: Mik Kersten and Dave West Wed., Mar. 27, 2013 10:30 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. EDT, Room 3

Software must enable businesses to innovate, achieve increased customer intimacy and assist managers and executives with decision-making. Essentially, software has transitioned from a support process to a critical business process. As a result of this transition, workplace processes are becoming more efficient and developers are seeing a new level of autonomy.

Viewing ALM as a business process allows software delivery to be managed holistically. In order to take business to the next level, the disconnect between ALM and technology innovation of mobile and cloud interfaces and Agile, Mobile and PaaS process change must be mended. During this session, attendees will gain a greater understanding of how integration is changing the face of ALM and how Agile practices and the DevOps movement is facilitating this change.

Additional panels and presentations by Kersten and West include the following:

The Future of ALM – Moderator: Dave West Tues., Mar. 26, 2013 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. EDT, Room 5

Agile and ALM – What Does Agile Mean to ALM? – Moderator: Dave West Wed., Mar. 27, 2013 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. EDT, Room 5

Building Mylyn 4.0 – Presenter: Mik Kersten Thurs., Mar. 28, 2013 10:15 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. EDT, Room 3

Where:

EclipseCon 2013 and ALM Connect (co-located events) Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center 200 Seaport Boulevard Boston, MA 02210 (http://www.seaportboston.com/)

When:

Mon., Mar. 25, 2013 – Thurs., Mar. 28, 2013

Share:

#Tasktop CEO @mik_kersten and @DavidJWest to discuss future of #ALM at #eclipsecon – Register here: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/

Info:

To register for this event, please follow this link: (http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/registration)

For more information on Tasktop or to speak with Kersten or West about their presentations, please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR: Office Number: 303-581-7760 Mobile Number: 303-827-5164 Email: (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com) Twitter: @prhightech

TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO DISCUSS THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY THROUGH THE OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT AT SXSW

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:51:01 +0000

Kersten will explore the evolution of software delivery and how open source collaboration tools are enabling developers to easily connect and deepen their impact on the industry

Who:

Mik Kersten

CEO and founder

Tasktop Technologies

(www.tasktop.com)

Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. His goal is to create the collaborative infrastructure needed to connect knowledge workers in the new world of software delivery. At Tasktop, Kersten drives the strategic direction of the company, developing key partnerships, and fostering a culture of customer-focused innovation. Prior to Tasktop, Mik launched a series of open source tools that changed the way that software developers collaborate. Kersten’s entrepreneurial contributions have been acknowledged by the 2012 Business in Vancouver 40 under 40 and as a World Technology Awards finalist in the IT Software category. His software community involvement builds on his contributions as one of the most prolific committers to Eclipse, and now includes serving on the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors and web service standards bodies

What:

Social Code Graph: The Future of Open Source

The open source movement is as impactful in size and scope as the ongoing social media movement. The evolution of open source is empowering developers and equipping them with tools to drastically change and control the development of the software industry. While developers once simply dumped code into various platforms, open source collaboration tools now allow them to significantly deepen their impact in the world by connecting with one another. These connections are the basis of the “social code graph.” A new breed of tool-supported open source practice is reshaping the economic landscape and making software delivery the most transparent and connected knowledge work process. During this session, attendees will learn about this transformation, why it will impact software development in the next decade, and how one can get involved in helping to shape the digital workplace of tomorrow.

Where:

SXSW Conference 2013

Austin Convention Center

Ballroom BC

500 E. Cesar Chavez St.

Austin, TX 78701

(http://www.austinconventioncenter.com/)

When:

Monday, Mar. 11, 2013 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. CDT

Share:

#Tasktop CEO @mik_kersten to discuss #opensource movement during #SXSW (http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_IAP6213)

Info:

To register for this event, please follow this link: (http://sxsw.com/attend)

For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or arrange an interview with Kersten, please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR:

Office Number: 303-581-7760

Mobile Number: 303-827-5164

Email: (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)

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TASKTOP’S NEELAN CHOKSI TO DISCUSS ALM AND PAAS INTEGRATION STRATEGIES AT CLOUD EXPO EUROPE 2013

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:18:57 +0000

Choksi will shed light on the emerging deployment destination for enterprise Java and how software developers can integrate Java and ALM with ease at Cloud Expo Europe 2013

Who:

Neelan Choksi, Tasktop President and COO

(http://www.tasktop.com)

Choksi is the president and COO of Tasktop Technologies where he manages operations, sales and business development for the leader in Agile ALM integration and productivity solutions.

What:

Cloud ALM: Connecting the Development Team to the New Deployment Destination from the Start

The deployment destination for enterprise Java is going through its biggest transformation since the creation of the application server. Cloud deployment has fundamentally changed the game for running apps. Choksi will explore the marriage of Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and discuss how a new integration of these technologies is going to transform the workflow of application development. He will demonstrate how to connect an open-source-based ALM infrastructure to the cloud in order to get a seamless Hudson- and Git-based continuous delivery loop tailored to continuous delivery of hosted Java applications. Attendees will learn how to augment this infrastructure with tasks, code reviews and wikis all managed and provisioned in the cloud. Also, attendees will leave with a better understanding of how to get started on deploy existing Java projects to the cloud with only a few clicks when using a cloud-connected and -hosted ALM stack.

Where:

Cloud Europe Expo 2013

Olympia National Hall

Hammersmith Road

London, England W14 8UX

(http://www.cloudexpoeurope.com/)

When:

Jan. 30, 2013, 10:20 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. London, BST

Share:

#Tasktop president @neelan to talk #Java and #ALM #integration on Jan 30 at #CloudExpoEurope

Info:

For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or to arrange an interview with Choksi please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN AND DAVE WEST TO OUTLINE THE IMPACT OF DEVELOPER POPULARISM ON ALM AT MICROSOFT’S ALM SUMMIT

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:53:04 +0000

Kersten and West look at the rise of developer popularism in the rapidly changing

software industry

WHO:

Mik Kersten, CEO and founder

(www.tasktop.com)

Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. He provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.

Dave West, Chief Product Officer

(www.tasktop.com)

West is instrumental in building Tasktop into a transformative business that is driving major improvements in the software industry. He is a former industry analyst at Forrester Research.

WHAT:

Developer Popularism

Software developers, the people responsible for world-changing software, are increasingly becoming empowered, making decisions about what tools they use, how they work and even what devices they work on. Software is now more important to basic business operations than ever, but software management may be even more critical. ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is the discipline that describes the application of business management to the practice of software development from idea to delivery. Empowered developers, or developer popularism, enforces a fundamental change to ALM. The complexity of the change from a single process, single tool based model to something more intricate can be daunting. Kersten and West will describe why developer popularism is happening, what that means to developers and how developers need to engage with management and other constituents in the software value chain to ensure that ALM continues to provide value. Attendees will obtain a full understanding of what it takes to achieve management oversight with developer freedom.

WHERE:

ALM Summit 3

Microsoft Conference Center

16070 Northeast 36^th Street Redmond, WA 9805

(http://www.alm-summit.com/)

WHEN:

Thurs., Jan. 31, 11 a.m. – noon PST

SHARE:

#Tasktop @mik_kersten and @DavidJWest share thoughts on #ALM and #developer #popularism at #ALMSummit

CONTACT:

For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or to arrange an interview with Kersten or West please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES SOLIDIFIES POSITION AS DE-FACTO STANDARD FOR ALM INTEGRATION DURING STRONG 2012

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:39:56 +0000

All stakeholders in developing software, within both IT enterprises and industry leading tool vendors, turn to Tasktop for Agile, cloud and DevOps collaboration

VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 9, 2013 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tools and a leader in Agile ALM integration and productivity, saw its business grow by 250 percent during 2012 as the coming of age of Agile and developer-centric collaboration tools drove the need for integrated and best-of-breed Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) stacks. In 2012, Tasktop strengthened its position as the industry leader in ALM integration with new OEM deals with key ALM vendors, including IBM, HP and CA. It also extended its ecosystem of integrations to encompass the latest cloud-based offerings, including Microsoft TFS, the Oracle Developer Cloud Service and Atlassian OnDemand. As a result, the company grew rapidly throughout the year, nearly doubling in size, opening a new headquarters in Vancouver, a new office in Austin, and adding industry thought leader Dave West to its leadership team.

“At the outset of 2012, many were expecting consolidation in the ALM market, due to the proliferation of Agile and ALM tools we saw the year prior,” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “Instead, we saw the reverse, with both established players and incumbents launching new offerings, often differentiated by being tailored to a particular stage of the lifecycle. Stakeholder-specific tools have become a fundamental and beneficial part of the modern ALM stack. But they cannot deliver benefits with an infrastructure that supports cross-tool collaboration and visibility. Tasktop’s growth in 2012 is a result of our multi-year investment in establishing the open-source platform, partnerships and customer base needed to create the first collaborative infrastructure for connecting the increasingly heterogeneous world of software delivery.” Tasktop is the only company dedicated to solving the “integration” problem of the increasingly complex, fragmented, heterogeneous and hybrid make up of today’s tool stacks needed to build and deploy software. Its products are built on the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) interoperability framework that connects desktops, servers, teams and departments together to synchronize tasks and projects. Tasktop Sync provides real-time synchronization, automatic 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. Tasktop Dev brings the functionality of Sync to the developers’ desktop by providing a unified and developer-centric view on the ALM stack within the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs. Highlights for Tasktop in 2012 include: Business Growth – during 2012, Tasktop continued its strong, organic growth with sales bookings increasing 250 percent and the company’s staff growing to more than 50. The company expanded its North American footprint with a new office in Austin, TX and an expanded office in Vancouver, BC, where the company is headquartered and won several awards, including the “Forty Under 40” for Tasktop co-founder Kersten and “Best Companies to Work” in British Columbia. In addition, Tasktop was recognized internationally for its industry contributions, being named a finalist for a prestigious World Technology Award in the IT Software category along with recognition from leading industry analyst Ovum Research for being "On the Radar," for application lifecycle management integration. Eclipse Mylyn, the open source project Tasktop continues to lead, also saw sharp growth and is now downloaded more than 2 million times per month. De-facto Integration Standard – Tasktop continues to be the partner and technical solution of choice for IT organizations and tool vendors looking to achieve more efficiency, consistency and quality in their software development activities. Currently, Tasktop supports and connects more than 70 development and deployment tools through its Mylyn-based Task Federation platforms. During the year, the company also signed major OEM deals with IBM, CA and HP, further extending Tasktop’s integration solutions into a growing number of leading global IT organizations. Other major announcements included Tasktop Sync support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server and ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle. It also launched Tasktop Sync Studio, innovative functionality that provides the industry’s first visual ALM mapping and monitoring tool for ALM architects Industry Thought Leadership – Tasktop remained committed to its mission to connect the world of software delivery through industry thought leadership. It’s involvement in the open source community remains strong, as it leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, and Kersten continues to serve as a Sustaining Member Representative on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the Open Standards for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) project, and leads Tasktop’s involvement with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to support bringing OSLC protocols for Linked Data to the W3C. During the year Tasktop also hired one of the most influential software industry thought leaders in Dave West, a long-time technologist, executive and industry analyst with Forrester Research. West, serving as chief product officer for Tasktop, has written and published numerous articles, and spoken at key industry events, to advance the adoption and best practices for integrating the software development lifecycle. Other highlights included a Tasktop/Oracle joint presentation at JavaOne and Kersten’s keynote at EclipseCon 2012 on the Impact of Open Source Practices on Enterprise and Agile ALM. “The past year was a breakout one for Tasktop as many organizations have accepted the inherent heterogeneity in their development processes and tool stacks, and have come to realize that connecting these workflows and tools are critical to on-time and high-quality software delivery,” said Neelan Choksi, president and COO for Tasktop. “There are many factors pushing a connected application development organization to the forefront in 2013, including new challenges with regulations, distance working, decentralized IT and developer populism. Tasktop is excited to work with our customers and partners to tackle these new problems, and create new opportunities to advance the art of building and deploying software.” Share This: #Tasktop becomes standard for #ALM integration - #software #Agile #opensource tool vendors rely on 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 developer’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. Tasktop’s Task Federation™ 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 company’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://tasktop.com

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TASKTOP RELEASES SYNC SUPPORT FOR IBM RATIONAL TEAM CONCERT 4.0

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:05:38 +0000

Tasktop provides the de-facto industry standard for integrating increasingly heterogeneous ALM tool stacks with improved data and work flow across the enterprise VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Dec. 17, 2012 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creator of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration, today announced that its Tasktop Sync 2.5 provides full support for Rational Team Concert (RTC) 4.0, a major new release of IBM’s ALM collaboration platform. With improvements to RTC’s build, User Interface and the Web client functionality now available, Tasktop Sync provides deeper data integration and connects RTC to a growing number of tools, such as JIRA, HP Quality Center and Microsoft Team Foundation Server to improve enterprise development productivity and efficiency. “Tasktop is committed to ensuring our customers receive the latest and greatest versions of our partners’ products as they are available, strengthening the Tasktop ecosystem,” said Dave West, chief product officer for Tasktop. “IBM’s new release of Rational Team Concert has significant enhancements that are important to software development teams using a range of tools and products. Tasktop Sync continues to support both legacy and next-generation IBM Rational products, allowing customers to connect projects that use a variety of IBM Rational technology while supporting a flexible tool stack.” Tasktop solves one of the biggest and fastest-growing challenges facing IT organizations that are implementing enterprise-wide Agile, ALM and cloud development initiatives – the proliferation of the heterogeneous developer tool stack. First, it connects developers through its Tasktop Dev desktop synchronization tool set. Second, it connects cross-functional enterprise teams with Tasktop Sync, its ALM integration platform that uniquely automates the entire application development lifecycle. Together, the tools provide unprecedented integration of tools, data, people and processes that are increasingly important within today’s fast-paced and complex enterprise IT organizations. With Tasktop, developers and managers have visibility into ALM work flow, real-time data sharing of cross-function activities and context into actual performance and business value. For more information about Tasktop, its products and its support of Rational Team Concert 4.0 please visit (https://tasktop.com/resources/videos/tasktop-sync-ibm-rtc-integration). Share this: #Tasktop continues its support of #ALM ecosystem with #Sync support for #IBM #RTC 4.0 https://tasktop.com/resources/videos/tasktop-sync-ibm-rtc-integration About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industry leader for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and developer productivity. The company’s mission is to connect the world of software delivery through its Task Federation™ technology that maximizes the flow of information between tools, people, teams and processes. Tasktop created and leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, with more than 2 million downloads per month, upon which its commercial Tasktop Sync ALM middleware and Tasktop Dev IDE tools are based. The company’s innovative technology solves one of the biggest challenges facing the software industry today – the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Tasktop’s partner ecosystem consists of open source, point tools and leading ALM suites, to integrate more than 70 disparate ALM tools with real-time connectivity and cross-repository workflow support. For more information, visit (http://tasktop.com). # # # Media Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13 M: 303-827-5164

TASKTOP SYNC SUPPORTS MICROSOFT TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER 2012

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:55:56 +0000

Tasktop keeps its integrations on pace with enhancements being made to industry leading development toolsets from Microsoft VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Dec. 13, 2012 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creator of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration, today announced that its Tasktop Sync 2.5 provides full support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012. With Microsoft’s recent improvements to its integrated toolsets and availability of Team Foundation Server as a cloud service, Tasktop Sync connects Team Foundation Server to a growing range of developer tools and extends the reach for developers building applications for .NET, Azure, Windows 8, and Windows Phone use. Tasktop Sync provides groups using Team Foundation Server deep data and workflow integration and connectors for a growing number of tools, such as JIRA, HP Quality Center and IBM Rational Team Concert. “With the growing popularity of mobile and the increased adoption of Azure, the Microsoft development world is growing increasingly heterogeneous, as best-of-breed delivery stacks will become even more common place with the availability of Team Foundation Server 2012 as a cloud service,” said Dave West, chief product officer for Tasktop. “Tasktop Sync provides the critical glue needed to connect all stakeholders involved in delivering software in such heterogeneous environments, ensuring that information flows securely between tools behind the firewall to tools in the cloud such as the new TFS 2012 cloud service and by ensuring that the right information is in the right place at the right time and preserving each individual stakeholder’s workflows when Microsoft’s TFS servers as the development system of record.” Tasktop solves one of the biggest and fastest-growing challenges facing IT organizations that are implementing enterprise-wide Agile, ALM and cloud development initiatives – the proliferation of the heterogeneous developer tool stack. First, it connects developers through its Tasktop Dev desktop synchronization tool set. Second, it connects cross-functional enterprise teams with Tasktop Sync, its ALM integration platform that uniquely automates the entire application development lifecycle. Together, the tools provide unprecedented integration of tools, data, people and processes that are increasingly important within today’s fast-paced and complex enterprise IT organizations. With Tasktop, developers and managers have visibility into ALM work flow, real-time data sharing of cross-function activities and context into actual performance and business value. For more information about Tasktop, its products and its support of Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012, please visit: (https://tasktop.com/resources/videos/tasktop-sync-microsoft-tfs-int). Share this: #Tasktop continues its support of #ALM ecosystem with #Sync support for #Microsoft #TFS https://tasktop.com/resources/videos/tasktop-sync-microsoft-tfs-int About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industry leader for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and developer productivity. The company’s mission is to connect the world of software delivery through its Task Federation™ technology that maximizes the flow of information between tools, people, teams and processes. Tasktop created and leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, with more than 2 million downloads per month, upon which its commercial Tasktop Sync ALM middleware and Tasktop Dev IDE tools are based. The company’s innovative technology solves one of the biggest challenges facing the software industry today – the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Tasktop’s partner ecosystem consists of open source, point tools and leading ALM suites, to integrate more than 70 disparate ALM tools with real-time connectivity and cross-repository workflow support. For more information, visit (http://tasktop.com). # # # Media Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13 M: 303-827-5164