AtTask's July Update Delivers Powerful Improvements Including Single Sign-On for SaaS, Best-in-Class Gantt Charts That Run 90% Faster, and New Matrix Reporting Capabilities.AtTask's July Update Leads the Market by Delivering a Single Sign-On An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. (SSO See single sign-on and CSO. SSO - single sign-on ) Solution for Synchronized Login and Permissions Across the Enterprise OREM, Utah Orem is an incorporated town in the north-central part of the state of Utah in Utah County. It is adjacent to Provo, Lindon, and Vineyard and is about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 84,324. -- AtTask, the definitive solution enabling organizations to collaborate and accomplish the work most essential to the enterprise, today announced the availability of the 2009 July Update. The July Update makes AtTask the first project management software to offer a single sign-on (SSO) service that provides complete integration with other enterprise SSO solutions. The update also includes significant performance enhancements to the interactive Gantt chart, new matrix reporting capabilities, and other functional improvements that enable managers and project teams to collaborate and effectively advance enterprise initiatives. "No other project and portfolio management provider has ever offered such an extensive SSO solution," said Nate Bowler, AtTask's CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "We recognized the need of our customers to integrate with a variety of SSO technologies, which is why we've developed a centrally managed SSO service that easily integrates with any corporate solution and is automatically configured and enabled when a user opts to set up SSO within our solution." The July Update reflects the company's strategy to propagate @task use broadly throughout the enterprise. Its commitment to product usability Product usability A concept in product design, sometimes referred to as ease of use or user-friendliness, that is related directly to the quality of the product and indirectly to the productivity of the work force. and performance will further enable organizations to reduce costs and increase productivity across IT, marketing, finance, services, R&D, and operations. 2009 July Update Highlights * A new centrally managed Single Sign-On service that easily integrates with your corporate SSO solution. AtTask now easily plugs into the most popular SSO solutions, including LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. and Active Directory (with synchronization), and Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. configurations, and is available to both on-demand and on-premise Enterprise customers. * Dramatic increases in capability, performance, and usability to AtTask's extremely powerful interactive Gantt Charts. * New matrix reporting that allows a summary aggregate report to be displayed in a matrix, making value comparisons much easier. * Additional functionality enhancements that improve performance and usability for project teams and project managers. "AtTask continues to lead the market with product enhancements that provide great value to organizations looking to improve business processes, reduce costs, and increase knowledge worker effectiveness," said Bowler. Recent AtTask Highlights * AtTask momentum continues through Q2 with increased revenue growth, strong customer acquisition, and project management innovation. * Global successes in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations into the (EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. ) exceeded all projections in Q2. * AtTask was recognized as a visionary in Gartner's Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. for IT Project and Portfolio Management1 in 2009. * According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner's Market Share: Project and Portfolio Management Software, Worldwide 2008 report2AtTask was the growth leader for 2008, achieving 90.9 percent share growth, outpacing the overall market by 12x. * The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property ) named AtTask the Best Project Management Software for the second year in a row at the 24th Annual CODiE Awards. * The Project & Portfolio Management Summit, held in June, brought together senior IT executives from the PPM business community who awarded AtTask a "Project & Portfolio Management Award" for "Best Presentation." * Organizations from all over the world enjoyed an exciting program of industry analyst presentations and customer success stories during AtTask's first ever User Conference held in May. (1)Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management" by Daniel B. Stang and Michael Hanford, June 2, 2009 (2)Gartner, Inc. "Market Share: Project and Portfolio Management Software, Worldwide, 2008" by Laurie F. Wurster et al, May 20, 2009 About the Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. 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About AtTask, Inc. AtTask (http://www.attask.com) is the project and portfolio management (PPM) solution that focuses all knowledge workers on those activities that make them and their company more effective, innovative, and competitive. Its platform-independent and multilingual solution increases efficiency for small- to medium-sized businesses and Fortune 500 companies across the globe. AtTask's clients include American Airlines, Chevron, Cisco Systems, GE Healthcare, Google, HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy , Johnson & Johnson, Newsweek, Samsung, Toyota, Walt Disney, and Whirlpool. |
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