http://www.instantshift.com/2012/01/12/announcement-winners-of-christmas-new-year-special-giveaway/

A big congratulations goes out to the 5x winners! We hope you enjoy getting into your ProWorkflow accounts!

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We know that it’s cool to give releases cutesy or cool names (think Poseidon, Longhorn, Panther, Gran Paradiso) however we’re pretty excited about V8 as a name – it’s powerful, fast and versatile.

The V8 release isn’t an update, it’s a total rebuild from the ground up using latest technology. You’ll find it easy to use and it’s really fast!

As much as we’d love to drop more hints it’s sufficient to say that this is going at a cracking pace and the internal previews are very pleasing. There are still a few limited places on the beta program for subscription customers so drop us a line if you’re keen.

Thanks All!

It’s the passion and feedback from you, our users, that has helped shaped V8 and continues to steer the future for ProWorkflow. Keep it coming! We get feedback from:

• Feedback page
• Twitter
• Website
• Facebook
• Blog
• Email
• And good old fashioned telephone!

(Not trials). This is awesome to see as every minute properly tracked is potentially revenue to invoice! Some other stats that you may be interested to know: (Stats at time of post)

• ProWorkflow is used in 47 countries.
• $617,071,425 has been invoiced through the tool.
• 847,777 Projects have been created.
• 3,591,332 Tasks have been created.
• 10,337,327 Hours have been tracked.
• 160,349 companies and 213,912 contacts have been added.
• The average project has 4.24 tasks (interesting when we see jobs with over 100 tasks!).
• The most popular browser/OS combo is Firefox with Windows, 2^nd is Safari on Macintosh with Chrome & IE on Windows tied for third – in even better news usage of IE6 has dropped to under 1%!

• PROFESSIONAL Accounts – Increased from 1gb to 5gb
• ADVANCED Accounts – Increased from 5gb-10gb

We hope this helps!

We’ve rewritten the application from the ground up and packed it full of usability enhancements, page redesigns, ajax, graphs and other goodies! We’ve also got the application loading up to 15x faster, removed popups, added more inline editing and totally reworked the most used pages!
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However…

There’s one screen we want some more feedback on. The main dashboard when you first login. We have plenty of ideas, but want this to be a page you really want to land on and use.
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Sends us ideas!

Either comment on this post or contact us(through the support@ email) and let us know what you really need on the main dashboard!

You are going to be using this every day and we want a page you love. Currently we display:

This is practical, but not sexy and could be simpler.

We’re going to totally rework this page. Summaries, charts, graphs, pictures of your boss! The sky is the limit! Send us your ideas or if feeling creative, click the top screen above and hack up a visual…

We’ll be starting this page early next week so you have a few days to have a say!

Today we went over the 10 million mark for the number of hours tracked in ProWorkflow
(Live accounts only, excluding trials)!

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As more customers come on board with the ProWorkflow project management software and we see the numbers climb, we’re stoked to see the app delivering value and the infrastructure holding strong!

Many are long time customers and their feedback is vital to us in the ongoing application development. We love helping our users get their business processes streamlined and it’s great to see them put so much chargeable work through the system.

At average studio rates, this is getting around the 1 billion dollar mark for the amount of work invoiced through ProWorkflow!

Wow! Go ProWorkers!

The next milestone will be 1 million projects! We’re currently at 809,347 projects and 3,389,282 tasks!

Thanks to our awesome userbase for keeping us on our toes and giving great feedback as we continually develop! We’ll also soon be announcing the V8 release and that will take your ROI to a whole new level again!

We’re currently getting some ideas together for how to use GPS related features through the ProWorkflow application and Mobile Webapp.

If you have some thoughts on GPS features you would like to see added, please get in touch and we’ll see what we can do!

Although the servers should only be offline for a small window of perhaps an hour or less, allow a few hours either side just to be safe.

Any questions, please contact us.
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Scheduled Maintenance Period (Start times)

US – ILLINOIS
Sun 3-Apr-2011 5:00 AM

NEW ZEALAND
Mon 4-Apr-2011 12:00 AM*  

AUSTRALIA (Vic)
Sun 3-Apr-2011 10:00 PM*  

UK/EUROPE
Sun 3-Apr-2011 11:00 AM   
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This maintenance period is planned to be outside of work hours for most ProWorkflow users, so should have minimal impact.

if you have any questions, please feel welcome to contact us.

ProWorkflow is a web based project management, time and task tracking solution perfect for virtual teams and distributed workforces.

Last week, Christchurch, New Zealand suffered a huge devastating  6.3 mag earthquake, killing hundreds and leaving about 1/3 of the city in a ruined state.

Read More Here… 
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Let us help you!

In order to support Christchurch businesses that will be required to manage their staff remotely from virtual offices after the recent earthquake,  ProActive Software is offering a special deal for their project, task and time management software ‘ProWorkflow’ – http://www.proworkflow.com.

The offer is 6 months free access to the ProWorkflow solution for any new Christchurch based customers!

We have also suspended payments for our Christchurch customers to help ease their cash flow.

Sign up today if you are finding yourself needing to manage a virtual team. Our friendly staff will help you keep your projects on track! Try a free trial account today!

Sign up for a trial today!
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Current Customers:
We are also suspending payments for 6 months for current Christchurch customers to help them out a bit with cashflow.

With international assistance, there are many rescue teams still searching the rubble for survivors and will be for some time.

It looks like it will take many years to rebuild the city, restore hope and for people to stand tall again but it will happen. Cantabrian’s are tough people and the city will be rebuilt.

You can follow the news here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/

ProActive Software (Developers of http://www.proworkflow.com) is a 10 y/o global project management software company operating out of New Zealand with two main offices, a development office in New Plymouth and sales/support office in Christchurch. All our subscription servers and customer data is hosted in the US.

We want to let people know that our Christchurch team are all ok. We operate in a commercial office 20 mins out of the city so had a good shake, but were relatively unaffected. One employee has had damage to her home but generally speaking we’re all safe and well.

Our Christchurch office suffered no damage, power and phones this side of town are completely unaffected and we’ll all head back there next week to resume as ‘normal’.

Regarding the business side, we are reminding people though that all our subscription servers are in the US at a top data centre (LayeredTech) with full redundancy so there won’t be any downtime.

We only have the sales/support team in Christchurch and they’re operating fine. The development team is in New Plymouth so they are all unaffected. Despite the ProWorkflow team going through two major earthquakes in 6 months, ProWorkflow has had zero downtime and retained good support and service. This is the benefit of a cloud based business model.

As individuals, our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Christchurch. Many have lost families, homes, jobs and are living without water, power and sewerage.

We’ll personally do what we can to help people, but if anyone wants to offer donations to help the Christchurch relief effort, we suggest you donate to the Red Cross from this page: http://www.redcross.org.nz/donate

I’d like to personally say thank you to all the customers that have emailed us with messages of support. It means a lot to the team.

If anyone has questions concerning either the earthquake or ProWorkflow service, feel welcome to contact us through the support page and we’ll get in touch.

- Julian Stone

CEO, ProActive Software Ltd