This feature upgrade is part of Lighthouse Premium, which is offered as a subscription service. A free thirty (30) day trial is available so that users can evaluate the new features before committing to the subscription service. Lighthouse Premium also includes a Service Level Agreement (SLA), Premium Customer Service, Custom Reporting, Branding, Notifications and Roles, and much more.
Lighthouse has had impressive growth in 2007 with more than 3500 companies signing up for its services, said Mark Wesker, Artifact’s CEO. “This reflects the fact that software business models are changing. More companies are adopting and accepting Software as a Service solutions.”
Lighthouse is also available in a completely free solution that includes everything needed to manage tasks, resources, costs, schedules, requirements, testing, bugs, issues, documents and more.
Artifact has now delivered four major upgrades this year, with two more planned for 2007. These upcoming enhancements will include the Lighthouse open source web services API, integration with popular IDEs such as Eclipse and full project planning.
Read more about Lighthouse or start using for free now at the company’s web site www.artifactsoftware.com.
About Artifact Software
Artifact provides software products and services that transform the chaos of software development into a manageable and predictable business process. Artifact’s Lighthouse is a SaaS solution that brings together software project data into a single solution that helps teams identify and correct risk factors before that have a severe impact on project budgets, schedules, and quality. With accurate real-time project data, organizations can predictably achieve deadlines and budgets, reliably tap into less expensive outsourced and offshore resources and timely measure performance objectives and team productivity. Artifact is based in Columbia, Maryland, with offices in Bangalore, India.