The Blog

Wow what a crazy few months it has been. Some of you may know but SpotOn! is brought to you by Otis Technologies, a company that has been creating enterprise level applications for big box retailers for about 7 years now. We created SpotOn! to be a tool that allowed smaller businesses to be able to harness what we have done in the enterprise sector for a much more affordable price.

Because we do work with larger businesses sometimes our development time is moved away from what we love (SpotOn!). SpotOn! was released last fall to little fanfare but has caught a great grassroots following in the project management field. We were mentioned on Web Worker Daily and it gave a nice boost to signups and the buzz around it.

Well we noticed in our Google Analytics stats that we all the sudden had a surge of vistors with a lot of them being direct hits… meaning people just typing in the domain… which in Internet marketing speak means that you were featured somewhere in print.

After some P.I work we were able to find a blog post on PCWorld.com that was sending us a few hits so we thought that maybe we were in the print version of PCworld. Alan was on his way to Publix so he picked up a copy and sure enough there we were!

If you want to read the article in electronic form you can go to:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/142807/simpler_projectmanaging_apps_get_the_job_done.html

This caught us off guard because we had yet to do anything as far as press releases or anything like that. This just goes to show that if you create software that helps people do things better that it will just take off. Tell your friends about us and what you experience. The best review we can get is from someone who has used the application and has told someone else who trusts their opinion, that is worth it’s weight in GOLD.

So welcome to all the PC World users and this is just the beginning. We have a lot going on around here and you will see lots of things happening soon!

We are always hard at work making SpotOn™ the best app out there. We have recently released some UI changes and updates to the software.

Activity Log Design Change

After some customer feedback we decided that the activity log inside of the dashboard needed to be refined. We are now grouping by your active projects and it will show the last 12 items grouped by project.

From there we figured that the grid needed to have the information better presented to you so we tweaked a little bit of how the grid looked.

People on the project

Now see inside of your project who is on a project and if they have ever logged in and how long ago it was. Keep track of who is looking at the project and who may need a little nudging to log on.

Help Videos

We have started to implement help videos throughout the application. The first one is a getting started movie that you can access when you first login to your application.

We are always looking for your feedback and suggestions to make the product better so head on over to the forum and let us know!