As per our Objective 1, we have made the product available to a wider audience by porting it to all popular platforms and devices and providing out-of-the-box integrations with the most common corporate systems. The Taskfit client has been tested and launched on Windows desktop and Android smartphone and tablet, iPad and iPhone, macOS desktop and Linux. In terms of integrations, Taskfit cooperates seamlessly with such personal productivity tools as Wunderlist, Google Calendar and office 365 Calendar, ticketing systems like Jira and Youtrack, BPM systems like jBPM and Oracle BPM, project management tools like MS Project and BaseCamp.
Regarding Objective 2, the Taskfit product portal has been in live operation for several months. Users can download and try the free version of Taskfit. The advanced subscription management features (including group functions and credit card payments) were released in April 2017, together with the non-free versions of the Taskfit client. Enterprise Taskfit clients do not share the same Taskfit server, they can use their own infrastructure or the private cloud infrastructure provided BaseWalk or other providers to host their isolated Taskfit environments.
According to our Objective 3 we worked towards re-positioning Taskfit to the B2C market. Since Q2 of 2017 we have been operating a 24/7 contact centre and we set up a training site with the necessary training materials ready as previously planned.
As per Objective 4, we are to successfully commercialize Taskfit PRO. The Customer Development Plan and the Business Innovation Plan has been revisited and delivered as required. It included a detailed analysis on the market potential of the product, the key milestones of the plan itself and a detailed action plan in terms of who our potential customers are, what competition there is on the market, what other influencing factors we need to consider when launching Taskfit to the public, what key selling points to build our communications strategy on and what sales and marketing strategies we are applying to support the launch of the product.
Regarding Objective 5, the demonstration version of the Taskfit Business Process Analysis (BPA) tool is ready. The tool takes its input from the raw data collected by the Taskfit clients during normal operation then it applies a process mining algorithm to generate graphs of the activities discovered in the raw data. We have put a lot of effort into building up a solid theoretical background behind our mining technics. Several existing algorithms (deterministic, heuristic, genetic) have been studied and adapted to our special purposes. Each implemented algorithm has its strengths and weaknesses. When using the Taskfit BPA tool, the user can choose the processing algorithm that best suits a particular analysis. The outputs of the algorithmic process analysis are passed to the visualization module of the Taskfit BPA tool, that generates BPMN models of the processes. Users can also edit the models manually to correct any potential mistakes made by the analyzer.