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Task Federation for HP ALM & Quality Center and IBM Rational Team Concert

Tasktop's Task Federation™ provides a set of tools that enable integration, visibility and traceability across heterogeneous ALM tool stacks. Task Federation capabilities augment your existing ALM server investments with a client-based solution that does not require adding any additional servers.

The full bi-directional synchronization component of Task Federation is available for HP ALM & Quality Center and IBM Rational Team Concert and support for other ALM systems is on the way.
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Cross-repository Agile Planning

The Tasktop Agile Planner leverages Mylyn connectors to give Agile teams the ability to manage development plans based on artifacts from existing defect and project management systems. This capability is provided directly in Eclipse, making it effortless for developers to maintain project status awareness and keep plans up-to-date.
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Tasktop for Visual Studio

Tasktop for Visual Studio has been released along with Tasktop 2.0. Tasktop for Visual Studio brings Eclipse Mylyn's task list and connector infrastructure into the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. Most Tasktop Certified Mylyn integrations are now supported for Visual Studio.
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Accept360 Connector

The Accept360 Connector improves project visibility and drives productivity by providing direct access to Accept360 Agile from within the Eclipse IDE and enabling task-focused programming. By facilitating developer updates to Accept360 and immediately notifying developers of development plan updates, the connector provides unprecedented visibility all the way from the developer's desktop to R&D decision makers.
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Polarion Track & Wiki and Polarion ALM Connector

The Polarion Mylyn Connector improves project visibility and drives productivity by providing direct access to Polarion Track & Wiki and Polarion Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) from within the Eclipse IDE. Download the Polarion Track & Wiki + Tasktop Pro product bundle to get everything you need to manage your development project.
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Hudson / Jenkins Connector

The Hudson Mylyn Connector, which also supports Jenkins, improves project visibility and productivity by providing direct access to Hudson from within the Eclipse IDE. The connector makes it possible to work with Hudson day-to-day entirely from within the Eclipse IDE with support for running and monitoring builds as well as inspecting the results.
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Introducing Tasktop 2.0

Dr. Mik Kersten, Tasktop CEO, Founder of Eclipse Mylyn

Thursday, March 31st, 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern, 5pm UK, 6pm Central Europe

In this webinar, Dr. Mik Kersten will review the new features in the just-releasd Tasktop 2.0. Tasktop 2.0 has many exciting features that improve productivity, collaboration, and code quality for development organizations who have heterogeneous environments and ALM stacks. Tasktop 2.0 includes "task federation" that offers bi-directional synchronization between disparate products like IBM Rational Team Concern and HP Quality Center.

Additionally, Tasktop 2.0 supports cross-repository Agile planning. Finally, with the release of Tasktop 2.0, Tasktop for Visual Studio has become generally available and new connectors for Accept360, HP's Agile Accelerator, Polarion and Hudson (and Jenkins) are included as part of Tasktop Enterprise.

Contact us if you'd like to schedule a time to meet with a member of the Tasktop team at any of the following events:

	IBM Innovate, June 5-9, 2011, Orlando, Florida (details)
	HP Discover, June 6-10, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada (details)
	Agile 2011, August 7-13, 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah (details)

Prediction #2: ALM tools become the gateway drug for hooking developers on cloud and PaaS

"...Developers drive the success of platforms. Whenever a platform shift occurs, such as the shift from proprietary to open source or from desktop to mobile, interest in gaining developer mindshare is renewed. While we may all be overloaded with atmospheric-condition-related acronyms, we are in the middle of a fundamental shift in enterprise software platforms..."

Read the full post and stay tuned to the Tasktop Blog for the final prediction.