Salesforce acquires Mulesoft to put integration firmly on the map

At Tasktop, we’re excited by the news that Salesforce has acquired Mulesoft, in a deal that is estimated to be worth upto $6.5 billion. The acquisition is another significant development in driving IT efficiency across enterprises, further emphasizing the importance of data integration between systems. Salesforce is a leading CRM solution that enables organizations to...

Overcome Hurdles to Maximize Business Value

In my last blog, “What is Work and Resource Management: Part 1 – Adapting to change,” I define work and resource management from the perspective of our friends at Ventana Research. This blog features the Ventana Research viewpoint on overcoming hurdles to maximize business value from their whitepaper, “Five Ways to Increase Efficiency and Innovate...

Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s Patricia Forts

Healthcare, like many industries, has gone through a transformation over the years. An influx of new startups disrupting the status quo, the patient experience becoming critical to success, and changes in consumer demand have all influenced this change. With change comes a need for established players to think differently about how they future-proof their businesses,...

75% of Brits Would Switch Careers if Given the Chance

Many people from time to time may look at their career and the decisions they have made and feel slight pangs of regret. In the UK however, it has reached epidemic proportions, with the numbers of people saying they regret decisions they have made in their careers eclipsed only by the amount that wish they...

Designing an API that works with Tasktop: The object model

Designing a REST API that works well with Tasktop is challenging. There are a lot of subtle things that can go wrong during the API design phase that can make it difficult for Tasktop to flow data to and from an ALM system. A first-class entity is an object that the API allows you to...

Planview AdaptiveWork in Action – Hodges-Mace

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Hodges-Mace was founded in 2004 and is a major provider of employee benefits communication, management and enrollment products and services. It delivers custom solutions to over 1,000 clients and is focused mainly on large employers based in the U.S. We talked with them recently to find out about how Planview AdaptiveWork...

The False Dilemma: Do I invest in release automation or tool integration?

CIOs may have more dollars to play with in 2018 – enterprise IT budgets are expected to rise by 3 percent – but that doesn’t make their day job any easier. They still need to extract more value from IT to help drive the business. But with all the technology and noise in the market,...

Project Management Team Building

Project success starts at the team level. Equally as important as workplace technology and ample resources, good project management team building allows managers to assemble teams that work together to overcome obstacles and work efficiently to meet deadlines. But what makes a team excel, and how do you build the perfect team to guide you...

How to Measure Innovation Capability

In part one of this series, “Why Measure Innovation by Capability,” I discussed some key insights from Tech Clarity’s latest whitepaper, 5 Ways to Measure Innovation Performance,” and why product leaders need to measure both innovation capability and desired outcomes to improve innovation performance. Now, let’s dive into the first three factors that will help...

Two-Thirds of UK Businesses Aren’t Prepared for Brexit

Despite the constant coverage, verging on national obsession, in the UK of the ongoing Brexit talks and processes, recent research has shown that 64% of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Britain have not yet prepared a plan for the UK’s exit from the European Union. With the large-scale changes in regulatory requirements and the...