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Intervals Revs Up Online Suite of Business Management Tools
New document support feature completes robust task and time management system
(CSRwire) SANTA BARBARA, CA - April 3, 2007 — Pelago announced today a major
upgrade to Intervals, its flagship time and task management system.
Intervals now features full document support, including upload, transfer
and version tracking capabilities. The new functionality turns the robust
web-based suite of management tools into a complete and fully mobile
business application.
Intervals document support represents a new trend in asynchronous web
applications, which give the user real-time interaction and feedback and
which leave other applications still operating in linear interfaces far
behind. This has far-reaching implications for the business world, as it
strives to figure out what's real and what's hype in the Web 2.0 space.
Pelago has filtered out the practical from the hypothetical in this brave
new world of the web and built a solid and responsive business
application.
With the document support upgrade, users can now work with virtually any
file type, retain full version histories, link documents to specific
projects and tasks, search for files within projects or universally, and
share files with other team members regardless of geographical location or
time zone. Documents can even be tagged with keywords for easier searches.
Storage quotas depend on the type of account the Intervals user has.
The new functionality peels away yet another important layer of
inefficiency experienced daily by designers, programmers, writers,
producers, project managers, and their clients: the email attachment.
Documents sent by email can be easily lost or confused with earlier or
later versions.
Even FTP, iDisk, and other file sharing mechanisms fall short, as they are
stand-alone solutions that cannot be fully centralized and integrated with
a company's workflow. With Intervals, all of the pieces of a project sit
in one organized, centralized work space: team member and client accounts,
tasks, files, notes, instructions, timesheets, fee structures, and work
modules. Intervals also provides dynamic charts and graphs that provide
valuable insight into companies’ resource utilization and time
management.
With the Web 2.0 revolution exploding in practically every sector,
today’s business environment is moving faster than ever. Global teams
can no longer wait for their colleagues on the other side of the world to
wake up to look up a document or to start work. Forward-thinking creative
and business professionals can no longer afford to be stuck with paper
timesheets, duplicate or lost project notes or instructions, or documents
or other work files chained to individual hard drives.
"The impact of the Internet on business today cannot be overstated," said
Braden Jones, Pelago's CEO. "Companies are demanding full workflow
centralization and 24/7 universal access, and Intervals delivers on both
counts."
"We built the new feature largely in anticipation of our customers'
needs," added Michael Payne, Chief Architect and co-founder of Pelago.
"And our customers tell us that we always seem to be a step ahead of their
expectations, which is a great thing for any business to hear."
About Intervals
Created by Pelago, Intervals was originally designed to solve Pelago's own
struggles with tracking time, billing clients, and knowing where projects
stood in real time. Targeted primarily to creative and communications
services companies and small businesses, Intervals is a powerful suite of
tools for anyone who wishes to ease the daily stress of organizing and
managing people, workflows, projects and time. Learn more about Intervals
at www.myintervals.com.
About Pelago
Pelago is a Santa Barbara, California-based web design and web development
firm founded in 2000. Pelago specializes in developing highly intuitive web
sites and reliable web-based applications, and injecting them with solid
business sense and functionality. Pelago clients include JD Power and
Associates, Nexxus, Xplane, Network Hardware Resale, and TenetCare. Learn
more about Pelago at www.pelagodesign.com.
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