Tasktop

Tasktop Sync recognized in coding category for enabling developers to increase their productivity and collaboration

VANCOUVER, BC Nov. 21, 2011 – Tasktop Technologies (tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a global leader in ALM integration and developer tools, today announced that its product, Tasktop Sync (http://tasktop.com/sync) has been selected as a finalist for Dr. Dobb’s 21st Annual Jolt Awards (http://drdobbs.com/joltawards) in the Coding category.

For the past 21 years, Dr. Dobb’s Jolt Awards have been presented annually to products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier and more efficient. This year, finalists are selected on an ongoing basis across several categories. 

“We’re proud Dr. Dobb’s has recognized Tasktop Sync for its ability to help large organizations produce and deliver software more efficiently and effectively communicate across multiple stakeholders with increased traceability,” said Neelan Choksi, President & COO of Tasktop.  “Today’s modern software development world is fraught with chaos characterized by decentralized decision making, frequent iterations, outsourced and remote workers, and information overload.  Tasktop Sync is our response to those challenges. It provides the only real-time and transparent connectivity between the various stakeholders in the software delivery process from management, business analysts, testers and developers, allowing each stakeholder to be successful while improving the combined results of the organization.”

Unlike previous approaches to ALM synchronization, 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’ tracking and reporting facilities. Building on the company’s Task Federation™ technology, Tasktop Sync ensures that each stakeholder in the software development lifecycle has access to the data that they need within their tool of choice, even if the data resides across requirements management, Agile development and traditional quality management systems.

"The new collaboration with Tasktop will accelerate Accept's strategy to provide a complete, end-to-end integrated product innovation management solution to increase agility and enable faster, confident decision making through visibility, real time analytics, and integrated collaboration," said John Haniotis, senior vice president of products for Accept Software. "Participation in Tasktop Sync allows our Accept360 product to synchronize information with third party developer tools and ALM systems, extending the efficiency, visibility and collaboration that goes into great product innovation and helping our customers deliver successful products faster."

For more information on Tasktop Sync please visit: (http://tasktop.com/sync)

About Tasktop Technologies

Tasktop Technologies, the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration and task-focused interface framework, provides desktop and enterprise-grade solutions that improve productivity, collaboration and Agile ALM success. Its Tasktop Dev products provide task-focused support for Agile planning, tool integration, web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Its Tasktop Sync provides real-time ALM server synchronization to unify and connect heterogeneous technologies with development and IT operations teams that are scaling Agile methods in the enterprise. Tasktop also provides consulting, connector development services and training to IT organizations that are adopting the task-focused paradigm and Agile ALM. For more information please visit (www.tasktop.com).

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