AutoTag 5 is ready to go!!!

It has been a long road but we have the release candidate of AutoTag 5.0 up on the web. (And this is not a beta release candidate, this is the actual candidate.) We've made it.

I hate the last 6 weeks of the development process more than any because every day it's like you are almost there, but the test team keeps finding bugs or usability issues that require tweaking features or adding new ones.

But we're through that. It's usable, boy is it usable. I remember when AutoTag 4.0 came out and it was a gigantic step forward in making report design easier. At the time we were thrilled and proud because we knew we had something that was so much easier than anything else out there.

And now with 5.0 it makes the 4.1 version look obsolete. One of the things I learned at Microsoft is don't wait for others to catch up, we need to compete against ourselves. And with AutoTag 5.0 we did exactly that. We've made it even easier.

So it was a long process - but well worth it. I am really proud of what the team created. You can see the results here.

As to what is coming next? We are going to slip-stream features in as we complete them and if I had to bet, I would bet on the matrix tag next.