Tasktop® and Accept Announce Accept360™ Mylyn Connector

ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- AGILE 2010 -- Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, and Accept Corporation (www.accept360.com), a leader in product innovation management, today announced the Accept360 Mylyn Connector. The connector will help streamline development, improve project visibility and drive software innovation by providing direct access to Accept360 Agile from within the Eclipse IDE.

"In partnership, Tasktop and Accept provide the first seamless integration between day-to-day development activity and product portfolio and innovation management," said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. "Linking Accept360 to the developer's Eclipse-based desktop will provide an unprecedented level of visibility, enabling the organization to more accurately track and plan products, requirements, ideas and Agile delivery."

The Accept360 Mylyn Connector supports Tasktop's award-winning productivity technology called the task-focused interface, which automatically tracks and presents the "context" of source code, documents and web pages that are most relevant for a given task. It reduces information overload for large-scale projects while enabling one click multitasking and interruption recovery. Available in Tasktop Pro, it will provide rich desktop access to the Accept360 Suite from the developer's Eclipse IDE or a standalone desktop application. The Accept360 Mylyn Connector will deliver a new level of visibility – from the developer's desktop up to R&D decision-makers – and provide a single, integrated solution that spans the entire product innovation management process, better aligning customers, business strategy, products and development efforts.

Accept360 Agile provides an enterprise-scalable solution that drives collaboration and speed across complex distributed teams with greater clarity around the "what, how, why and when" of every feature built. It increases value delivered in every sprint and perfectly aligns product execution plans to Agile or a hybrid of other methodologies. Accept360 Agile is one of five integrated modules that make up the Accept360 Product Management Innovation Suite, the only complete end-to-end solution that tightly links strategy and decisions from ideation through portfolio planning, roadmaps, requirements and execution.  

"The partnership with Tasktop is part of 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 Corporation. "Extending the visibility and collaboration that goes into great product innovation and execution through the Accept360 Mylyn Connector is a major step to helping our customers deliver successful products faster."

Availability

The Accept360 Mylyn Connector will be available for download directly from the Mylyn Connector Discovery listing that is included in eight of nine Eclipse distribution packages. General availability is scheduled for the end of November, 2010. Tasktop and Accept Corporation representatives will be available at the Tasktop booth at Agile 2010 (http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/) to provide more information about the integration and partnership.

About Accept Corporation

Accept Corporation delivers The Product Innovation Management solution that technology-driven companies use to decide which products to bring to market for the fastest time-to-profit. The Accept360 Suite is the only complete end-to-end software solution that tightly links company and product strategy through ideation, portfolio planning, roadmaps, requirements and execution. For more information, visit www.accept360.com or call us at +1.866.423.8376

About Tasktop Technologies

Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Pro is the company's enterprise-ready product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Tasktop Technologies also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information please visit www.tasktop.com.

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