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Starsoft launches Free Ezidoesit Light
Auckland 8th March 2009 - Starsoft Limited today announced the launch of a free version of their Ezidoesit Task and Work Scheduling software for Microsoft Outlook – Ezidoesit Light.
Ezidoesit Light Edition, gives Microsoft Outlook users the option to install the Ezidoesit productivity software at no cost. As with the other Ezidoesit products, Light enables users to minimize distraction, lower stress and stop the inefficiency that comes with multi-tasking. By scheduling work tasks through the quick and efficient Ezidoesit process, workers clearly know what their work schedule is and what the priorities of individual tasks are. Re-scheduling tasks due to changing priorities is an easy drag and drop process.
Starsoft CEO, Dermott Renner said “With the current state of the world’s economy, companies and individuals need to be more productive and more efficient. Everyone has to do more with less. All of our lives are getting more complex and there is the requirement to compress more work into less time. The Ezidoesit products enable people to step up to the plate and achieve these goals without burning out through stress or suffering from information overload”.
Ezidoesit Light is a free download from the Ezidoesit website – www.ezidoesit.com.
The other versions of Ezidoesit are - Standard Edition costs $US20, Ezidoesit Professional Edition costs $US30 and Ezidoesit Enterprise Edition costs $US50 per license. The Workgroup multi-user add-on for Professional and Enterprise is $US10 per client license.
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Ezidoesit on Outlook 2010
Next year, probably in the first half of 2010, Microsoft will release Office 2010. Currently the product is at the Beta stage.
We have been doing some testing of Ezidoesit starting July with the Technical Preview of Office 2010 and can confirm that it does indeed work.
The only issues we are working on at this stage is working out a final design for how we want our Ezidoesit Ribbon bar to look.
Early in the New Year we will be releasing to testers a version of Ezidoesit for Outlook 2010. If you wish to be included in this Beta testing program please contact Starsoft at support @ starsoft.co.nz. | |
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Starsoft launches Ezidoesit Enterprise R2 Edition
Starsoft Limited (“Starsoft”) today announced the launch of an update to Ezidoesit Enterprise Edition software in New Zealand.
Ezidoesit Enterprise R2 adds some exciting new features to the existing version of Ezidoesit Enterprise Edition and is available as a free update to all existing users of Enterprise Edition.
EziAnswer allows users to drag and drop emails that they need to answer onto a white colour on the Ezidoesit Elevator Bar. These emails are then moved from the users inbox. The user can set two reminders a day (say late morning and late afternoon) which will send them an email reminder of emails that are waiting to be answered. The user can, at any time, open the EziAnswer window and reply to emails. This option allows an Outlook email user to control when emails are answered and avoid their day being run according to other peoples’ schedule. It also avoids the quick stimulus response to emails which we can regret later.
Starsoft Managing Director Dermott Renner said “According to a joint study done by The University of Illinois and Microsoft, it takes a worker 17 minutes to get back to what they were working on after interrupting their work to answer an email. EziAnswer is the solution to email interruptions and can save businesses serious money by providing Outlook users these tools.”
This update also allows Enterprise users to import Outlook tasks into Ezidoesit and to export Ezidoesit tasks.
A new Advanced Scheduling rule option allows emails from specific email addresses or domain names to have pre-set priorities for scheduling tasks and work. In addition, tasks not finished at the end of the day can be re-scheduled to another time.
We also have a new online Ezidoesit Help portal.
Ezidoesit is now available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Polish.
7th July 2009
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Ezidoesit works with Microsoft Windows 7
I can confirm that Ezidoesit (all versions) works with Microsoft® Outlook© 2007 running on Windows 7 Beta and RC (Release Candidate).
Since February I have been running Windows 7 (first the Beta and now the RC version), Outlook 2007 and Ezidoesit on 3 different HP notebooks and everything has worked perfectly. These notebooks all previously ran various versions of Microsoft Vista. As with Vista the Windows 7 versions include both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
I am now running Outlook Service Pack 2 and this has not caused any problems at all.
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Starsoft launches Ezidoesit Standard and Enterprise
Starsoft Limited (“Starsoft”) today announced the launch of Ezidoesit Standard Edition and Ezidoesit Enterprise Edition.
Ezidoesit Standard Edition is a low cost cut down version of Ezidoesit Professional Edition. This starter version of Ezidoesit gives Microsoft® Outlook© users the ability to save at least 60 minutes a day with faster and easier ways to organize their work.
Ezidoesit Enterprise Edition is the complete Task and Work Scheduling software for Microsoft Outlook. It adds a number of new features above those that are in Ezidoesit Professional. These include a complete client based Email Archiving option, the ability to synchronous Ezidoesit data online/offline and a new EziQueue feature that allows unallocated tasks to be stored and retrieved by users using the Workgroup add-on for Enterprise.
Mr Renner said “Today we launched two new Ezidoesit products - Standard and Enterprise Editions. More than at any other time in history businesses today need to get more work done with fewer resources – less people and less time. Email is a necessary and important tool in business today but it can become both a distraction and cause stress because too many options are presented to the Outlook user to work on. It is stressful trying to juggle competing demands, fitting everything in and doing the important things first. Ezidoesit, through a simple and smart user interface, allows the user to create tasks and schedule these into their Outlook Calendar".
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Starsoft launches Ezidoesit Workgroup Edition
Starsoft Limited (“Starsoft”) today announced the launch of its new Ezidoesit Workgroup Edition software in New Zealand.
Ezidoesit Workgroup is a multi-user version of Ezidoesit Professional released in February and can save your workgroup or team time and stress and provides enhanced work scheduling and resource planning. This add-on turns Ezidoesit Professional into a multi-user version that links everyone together and enables everyone on your team to move in the same direction. Users across multiple teams can work on the same project and a user can be a member of multiple teams. Workgroup projects are independent of teams and have a project leader. Workgroup includes Team and Project reporting, Data Security to control access to task and project information, and Advanced Project features.
Starsoft Managing Director Dermott Renner said “Ezidoesit Workgroup is a fantastic add-on to the Professional version of Ezidoesit and uses the same visual method of reporting on team member work. All the reports that are in Professional such as Time Usage and the Performance Gauge can report on team and project data plus we have added new reports such as the Task List and Task Management Ability report which should task slippage information. None of the advanced reporting introduced in the Workgroup Edition requires any additional data entry over what has always been captured in Ezidoesit Professional through our drag and drop interface.”
Used retrospectively as well as prospectively you can quickly assess who might be overloaded and who might be underutilized. However, before making any changes to task allocation check out the Task Management Ability Report to see how successful your team members are in meeting time goals. Some “underutilised” team members may be more efficient in their work.
Mr Renner said “Since February when we launched Ezidoesit Professional we have consistently added new features to the product each month and added support for seven foreign languages. Now with Workgroup Edition launched, we have a world beating collaborative task and work scheduling product available for Microsoft® Outlook™ users. In business today even more so than we launched Ezidoesit in February there is a need for people to achieve more with less people and time. We believe this software will save most users 60 minutes a day through better and quicker scheduling and prioritizing work. Some of our users say it saves them over two hours a day.”
Ezidoesit Professional is now available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Polish.
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Ezidoesit Update OctoberEzidoesit version 1.1.52 was released on Monday 20th October 2008.
New features and changes are listed below
This version has the following changes from the 1.1.43 version which was released on September 1st. Details of earlier changes are available on the www.ezidoesit.com website under Support, Update Archive.
New Language Support
Ezidoesit Professional now supports in version 1.1.52 Dutch and Polish in addition to supporting English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.
Danish and Swedish will be added in early November.
Changes from version 1.1.43
1. Fixed - when you opened an attachment from a task and then closed the task window before closing the attachment the task window would not close and outlook needed to be closed to close the task window.
2. Fixed - if you opened a task and set its % complete to 100% in the task window it didn’t check to see if there was any time after the current time that should be removed from the task. This has now been corrected so the task length is reduced like it is when signed off as complete in the task list
3. Fixed - when reducing the task length from the task window and the scheduled time that has passed for the task was greater than the new task length the rescheduling process would remove all scheduled times for the task. This has been fixed it will now remove only the excess scheduled time.
4. Fixes issue with display of & character on ribbon schedule and EziView.
5. Fixed - when setting the task to 100% completion and none of the scheduled time has elapse for that task yet (i.e. reducing the task time would reduce it to 0) it will instead change the task to not scheduled and leave the task length as it was.
6. Fixed - if a user shifts a task in the calendar or schedule view and the new start time is before the task start after date then the task start after date will be changed to the new start time.
7. Change - performance has been increased for the task list where lots of tasks need to be displayed.
8. Change – the Task Deadline is now displayed in the task list.
9. Change - a status bar is displayed along the bottom of the Task List which lists the fields that the Task list is currently being ordered by as the column headers don’t always show the order status when there is not enough room. As you click on each heading to sort by, it is displayed on this status bar. | |
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Ezidoesit Update September
Ezidoesit version 1.1.43 was released on Monday 1st September 2008.
New features and changes are listed below
This version has the following changes from the 1.1.42 version which was released on August 4th. Details of earlier changes are available on the www.ezidoesit.com website under Company, News.
The changes this month are small due to development time spent on the upcoming Ezidoesit Workgroup Edition which should be available in the middle of September.
We have fixed an issue with the Outlook 2007 ribbon view where the user is using two screens if the right hand screen is set as the main screen and the ribbon view is displayed on the left screen then the tasks are not displayed on the ribbon view. Status now fixed.
We have changed Ezidoesit to handle errors in the Elevator Bar to stop crashes of Outlook 2007 when Ezidoesit cannot connect to the data and the EziView is displayed.
A Buy Now link is displayed on the About Ezidoesit menu option. Clicking on this link will take you directly to the Buy No option on the Ezidoesit website. This link disappears once the user has activated the software.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Microsoft has now released SQL Server 2008 and we are running Ezidoesit on this version at Starsoft. In the middle of September we will offer an upgrade to existing users od SQL Server 2005 and the option of either SQL Server 2005 or 2008 for new users.
Multi-user capabilities in Ezidoesit
Ezidoesit Professional can run multiple copies accessing one Microsoft SQL Server database on a server (this is how we run it at Starsoft and have done for the last 9 months). If you need to setup Ezidoesit like this please email support@starsoft.co.nz for further details.
Ezidoesit Workgroup Edition
Interested people should contact Starsoft at - sales @ Starsoft.co.nz
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