You spoke, we listened!

We are proud to bring you the latest evolution of our project management and collaboration tool, Copper 2008. Available in Corporate and Enterprise editions, and featuring groundbreaking new ways to manage your team, we think you're going to love it.

With such an amazing group of customers, supporters and collaborators, who wouldn't! We've received thousands of emails, hundreds of survey responses, and in response we have used your feedback to inform the new version. Today we'd like to announce the redefinition of the online productivity application. Available as a subscription or as an installable license, with a flexible range of pricing. Here are some of the things you wanted.

You wanted fewer clicks, and to get things done quickly.

So we sculpted a new interface, chiseled for weeks, and the result is a Copper that is more intuitive and faster than ever. We reworked the entire navigation system, showing your current location as well as your available actions in the one spot. We widened the entire application and removed the visual clutter so everything is now right where you expect it to be. Next, we added a raft of timesaving features like ajax expanders in list views so that you can quickly drill down to the information you need, and then merged other views like tasks and projects to improve the workflow. Finally we added the amazing new search, allowing you to instantly find anything in real-time.

We think its the simplest and most intuitive interface going around, but you'll need to see it for yourself.

You wanted an improved timeline and sub-tasks

In 2003 we revolutionized online project management software with a dynamic drag & drop timeline that quickly enabled you to create and shift tasks. Most of our competitors still don't offer such a feature, but we thought we'd take our timeline to a new level anyway. Now you can select multiple tasks and drag them, create sub-task hierarchies, reorder your project and generally manipulate your timeline just as you would in leading desktop applications. This new functionality provides an unprecedented tool that allows you to quickly create new projects, and rest assured that each finite movement updates your centralized project data in real time, ready for your crew to log in and contribute.

You wanted a better way to allocate your resources

Previously with Copper (and still in our Standard edition) you would simply add your resources to a task, and they would log in and see that task in their springboard and subsequently conduct the work. However many of you wanted a way firstly to set the availability of a resource, and secondly allocate specific hours to a resource to allow you to track how much work they had on and if the task or project requires different resourcing. If you don't have the time to allocate the hours, you can still allocate your resources the old way, or the option is now available to simply commit hours to your resources. Now you can review their availability, committed hours, and the time logged!

..and to see how busy your entire team is (a revolutionary new feature)

Introducing a world-first, we like to call the Business Defrag! For those that do commit real hours to their resources, the reward is that you can review your entire resources across a single timeline. Now you can see how your team is loaded, and subsequently click through to trouble areas and reallocate! There has never been a simpler way to visually monitor your portfolio resourcing, the new resource timeline is your organizations heart rate monitor.

You also wanted other improvements, so we did those too.

One of the great things about having an open dialogue with you is that it means we get to respond in kind with new features that enhance the concept of online collaboration (thanks for your continued support and feedback by the way).

Specifically, we built an entirely new Reports module that allows you to create your own bespoke reports,then export them to csv format, or have them emailed on a regular basis. We overhauled the Files module, allowing you to create and manage file folders using AJAX expanders, and added the ability to retain all file versions. We overhauled the Springboard so that administrators can now post comments on behalf of other users. The users themselves can now quickly expand a task to see the running commentary, and can now post updates without comments (a small but popular request!). We overhauled the Admin and Permissions system so that its much quicker and simpler to manage your users access. We even conducted performance testing and improved page loading speeds by approximately 80%, now they snap-load.

Aside from these areas there are literally hundreds of changes across the entire application, with virtually every screen reviewed and refined where we thought it would make your life easier. We couldn't be happier with the result!

Copper 2008, is available now in Corporate and Enterprise editions.
You can purchase the 2008 Corporate edition for $1499 (or $99/mth), or purchase the 2008 Enterprise edition for $2999 ($199/mth). Upgrades and other editions are also available. To find out how Copper can redefine your business, visit our website to review the online demos or request a 14-day free trial, or get in touch via the details below.

http://www.copperproject.com

Ben Prendergast
Element Software
(415) 992-5610
ben@copperproject.com

Travis Becker
Element Software
(415) 367-3610
travis@copperproject.com

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