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Backlog and Cacoo facilitate remote collaboration and empower development and design teams to do their best work wherever and whenever needed.

With Backlog, remote development and design teams stay connected with:

• Instant Access: With cloud-based file storage and version history, developers and designers have instant access to the latest iteration of every asset the team creates.
• Seamless Communication: Developers and designers can share crucial ideas and insights through instant comments and project wikis. With Slack and Teams integrations, they can collaborate on their preferred chat platforms in real time.
• Streamlined Feedback: By initiating pull requests and init code reviews directly from the platform, developers and designers can ensure their work meets the highest standards.

With Cacoo, an online diagramming tool, designers can streamline complex project tasks:

• Visual Project Planning: Cacoo’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface makes product planning a breeze, no matter how complicated your designs might be. Build wireframes with device- and platform-specific templates, add annotations, and get instant feedback.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Cacoo’s in-app video and chat simplify group brainstorming sessions. Teams can work together on the same file with multi-user editing and comments.
• Convenient Integrations: Designers can continue to create with their favorite tools, like Adobe Creative Cloud, and share with the team’s preferred platforms, such as Google Drive or Confluence.

Backlog elevates remote project management by making everything accessible to your team wherever they are, with:

• File Sharing: With Backlog, essential project files like customer journey maps, documentation, and critical assets are housed within the projects and tasks they’re attached to. That way, team members can always access the resources they need the moment they need them. There’s also a dedicated file management system, plus project wikis that serve as a source of truth.
• Custom Workflows: Project managers can create custom statuses and progress indicators to optimize project workflows, break work into subtasks, and assign work in just a few clicks.
• Workload Management: Backlog helps project teams stay efficient. With easy-to-understand Gantt Charts and Kanban boards, project teams can track tasks however they want. Identify roadblocks and maintain optimal workloads with custom prioritization, dependency management, and burndown charts.

With Cacoo’s intuitive drag-and-drop templates, project managers can easily visualize plans and workflows and transform the most complex data into dynamic charts, empowering teams with the needed data.

Cacoo also facilitates both real-time and asynchronous collaboration. Synchronous teams can build real-time mind maps over in-app video or text chat. Asynchronous collaborators can edit, annotate diagrams, and leave comments for the team to review.

Backlog and Cacoo can enhance real-time communication for synchronous remote teams with instant comments and notifications, chat integrations, and more.

Backlog and Cacoo’s convenient Slack and Teams integrations mean that teams can continue to use their preferred communication platforms instead of bouncing between apps.

Backlog’s mobile app, notifications, and email alerts will instantly distribute project updates.

Cacoo’s real-time chat features include text and video, so teams can discuss ideas while making simultaneous edits.

Backlog’s flexible task management makes it easy for remote team members to manage their daily tasks:

• Custom Task Reminders: Project managers can map each task to unique milestones and set deadlines and dependencies to help team members plan their work. And team members can opt into daily or weekly email- and in-app reminders of upcoming deadlines, helping them stay on track.
• Deadline Visualization: Backlog’s Kanban and Gantt Chart views enable remote employees to view their workload in a way that makes sense. With Kanban, users can easily track tasks by stage. And Gantt visualizes deadlines and dependencies for more accurate planning.
• Easy Subtasking: With Backlog’s parent and child task types, remote employees can break their work down into discrete subtasks and track their progress more accurately.

Cacoo’s simple but powerful online design tools make it easy to create beautiful visuals from anywhere:

• Dynamic Dashboard: Cacoo’s dashboard puts everything remote creatives need right at their fingertips. Pin shared and private folders and make critical assets easy to find. Search and filter to find specific diagrams and access your most recent work from one screen.
• Flexible Communication: Cacoo makes it easy for remote workers to communicate, request feedback, and collaborate. Comments facilitate asynchronous communication–so remote workers can create on their schedule–while video and text chatting create instant connections.
• Seamless Sharing: Share assets and invite feedback with seamless sharing features. Invite collaborators to shared folders or add them to individual designs. Export design files in your preferred format to review on other platforms. And switch to presentation mode for seamless virtual presentations.

Backlog makes remote file sharing both seamless and actionable:

• Share Project Files: Each Backlog project has a dedicated Shared Files folder, accessible to anyone on the team–including administrators and any guests you’ve added–so everyone always has what they need.
• Attach Files to Tasks and Subtasks: Upload files directly to the task or subtask where they’re relevant so task owners and collaborators can always find the most critical information.
• Find Files Easily: Backlog’s dynamic file search makes any resource easy to find. Search or filter by keyword, date, or file owner. Organize files into subfolders and share direct links to make this even easier.

With Backlog and Cacoo, teams can communicate on their terms.

Already attached to your current communication platform? Backlog and Cacoo integrate with Slack and Microsoft Teams, so collaborators can continue the conversation unimpeded.

Cacoo also offers in-app chat and video calling, so collaborators can work together on a new diagram, workshop a design, or build a mind map in real time.

With Backlog and Cacoo, remote teams can stay alerted to every evolving project detail.

Backlog’s project management features streamline workflow and task management:

• Deadline and Dependency Tracking: Backlog’s Gantt Chart view helps the team stay on top of deadlines by depicting real-time project progression. View impending deadlines and identify dependencies at a glance.
• Instant Notifications: Backlog keeps every project team member in the loop about relevant updates, including task assignments, changes, and shared assets. Users can opt into notifications in-app and via email. Need even more flexibility? The mobile app delivers notifications on the go.
• Custom Task Statuses and Types: With Backlog, you can customize your workflow to maximize visibility and efficiency. Create new issue statuses to show precisely where each task stands and new issue types to organize your project.

Cacoo’s drag-and-drop design and collaboration features ensure seamless communication:

• Customizable Template Library: Even if you’re not a designer, create easy-to-understand visual aids to help your team understand workflows, project plans, or complex data.
• Comments, Text, and Video Chat: Collaborate on your designs with live chat and video conferencing.
• Multi-User Editing: Collect feedback and improve your project by granting your teammates editing access to your designs. Or hop on a call and edit together in real time.
Backlog Integration: Attach your graphs directly to issues in Backlog as visual references to assist the team.

Nulab prioritizes your privacy and trust and maintains rigorous, transparent security policies:

• Secure Data Storage: We use Amazon Web Services to store data due to their high security standards and reliability. These data centers comply with ISO 27001 and are classified as Level 1 providers under the PCI Data Security Standard.
• High Compliance Standards: Nulab strives to maintain compliance with the highest security standards in the industry. We comply with ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017 and ISO/IEC 27018.
• Encryption: We use SSL encryption for all HTTP connections and HTTPS. Specifically, we use TLS 1.2. We also encrypt all passwords.
• Limited Server Access: We strictly control who can access our servers, when, and how. Only operational team members are permitted, and only during authorized routine checks and bug investigations. Individual users are not permitted to access our servers directly.
• Regular Backups: If there’s ever a server failure or human error, we protect your data in two ways. Our server clones data to a backup server in real time, ensuring nothing is lost. We also perform full backups of Backlog and Cacoo data every day.

Additionally, Backlog and Cacoo’s Enterprise plans allow for self-hosting, granting you complete control over your security policies, permissions, updates, and backups.

For more information about how Nulab protects your data, review our full security policy.