In the past two years, Italian company MyTI has switched offices three times and multiplied their workforce by five. Their "stop time" in changing location has never exceeded two hours because they host all their work on Assembla.

MyTI ("Technologie Informatiche"), based in Brescia near Milan, uses their Assembla workspaces for every Java development project as well as business intelligence projects. Some of their recent projects have included:

- A travel agency's extranet customer portal. The portal stores customer data on a central database in sync with enterprise resource planning and computer resource systems, so customers can view or edit invoices and flight preferences.

- JavaME programs for Near Field Communication phones. They made a proof of concept last year that broadcasts media from museum exhibits to tourists' phones using bluetooth and RFID chips. More recently they have become a partner developing the mobile app safeatwork (www.safeatwork.it).

- A SCADA control system development environment for Italian manufacturer Gerfan, using a Rich Client Platform. Assembla was a key factor in this project, as MyTI used Assembla Tickets to communicate with their client.

While the economic downturn slowed business, MyTI started their own flagship project between assignments: Bleen (www.bleen.it), a new Enterprise search engine.

"Instead of wasting time crawling YouTube," says CEO Emanuele Cerquaglia, "we decided to start with a cool project. It's impossible to start and restart projects around higher-priority assignments this way without Assembla's tickets and milestones. Assembla's ticketing system has become smarter release after release. The time wasted managing tickets has decreased constantly so we can focus on developing."

MyTI has looked at various project management services, but they rate Assembla highest, noting especially our frequent software releases with new features and improvements.

"I'm not buying simple Trac or SVN hosting but a 'living' system which is getting better every month," says Cerquaglia. "I have to be very convinced of what I chose to work with. At this price, there are no better choices."