Task taker: Enhanced project solution honors users’ requests “on demand”

AtTask, a provider of project and portfolio management (PPM) software, offers a new version of its @task on-demand PPM software that includes several user-requested features and product enhancements.

“One of the things we’re most proud of is our responsiveness to customer input,” says Nate Bowler, CTO, AtTask. “They ask, and we listen. @task’s newest release comes as a direct result of talking with our customers and then quickly turning around a product that meets their business needs.”

Customers such as Google, Heritage Academies, and Whirlpool requested specific features to help them meet their objectives, including the ability to integrate other business applications via mashups within @task. Applications such as Salesforce.com, SAP, or SharePoint can be opened as tabs within @task, allowing users to access their critical information and quickly integrate that data with @task.

Other key features include two-way sync with MS Project, scheduled reports, recurring tasks, automatic change-in-status notifications; new reports, charts, and dashboards; the ability to preview reports; and viewable baselines.

AtTask also just launched its new online community, which features Idea Share, a new way for customers to contribute to the @task development process. Customers can submit their own ideas, discuss ideas and vote on their favorites, and watch as these ideas are incorporated into future versions of @task.

Source: www.mbtmag.com, October 6, 2008