ii japanese occupation force see j force . the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources jforce news newspapers books scholar jstor free images december 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article possibly contains original research . please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . statements consisting only of original research should be removed . december 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . august 2012 jforce type privately held industry software founded 2006 headquarters graham north carolina products project management software website jforce.com jforce is a software development division of webspark inc. that specializes in joomla extensions to assist companies with project management tasks . its parent company webspark inc. is a web development company with the mission of helping companies manage their online presence . webspark inc. is based in graham north carolina . 1 contents 1 history 2 software 3 competitors 4 references 5 external links history edit jforce founded by webspark inc. and under the name of extreme joomla began in 2006 with the purpose of creating an extensive and fully functional project management system . before 2006 webspark was in need of a project management tool to support the needs of its private web design and development division . the small team of developers on staff started the process of evaluating the mainstream project management software systems available at the time and choosing what they felt were the most important features to include for their company s specific system . they wanted the solution to be something that could be web based ; and therefore available directly on the company s website . they wrote 4 separate extensions jaccounts jcontacts jprojects and jsupport ; but made sure the extensions were developed to work well together . jaccounts handled all the accounting needs of the company . quotes and invoices were easily managed and easily accessible . jcontacts offered a fair amount of customer relations management functionality . jprojects encompassed all the objectives that would be included to run a project from start to end . jsupport offered an easy way to address any support issues that would arise . customers could easily submit support tickets and the system would notify the support staff to address the issue . the j in each title was added as an honorific nod towards joomla based on webspark s advocacy of the open source content management system . as clients began to interact with the software on the site they began to inquire how to obtain it for their own sites . what began as development for an internal solution quickly transitioned into development for the entire joomla community . extreme joomla llc was formed to manage the needs of this growing project . 2 a site was designed and established so that clients could purchase any or all of the 4 extensions and install them on their own sites . the system of all 4 extensions working in collaboration was dubbed the jforce suite . the developers soon decided to rewrite the system so that there was only one extension handling all 4 of the main objectives accounting customer relations management project management and support . they worked quickly to provide this solution to the community . jforce 2.0 was launched in the summer of 2009 . it was advertised as a crm pm solution for any joomla website . very shortly afterwards in order to avoid confusion for new customers the four separate extensions were moved to another site extension depot ; and jforce 2.0 became the sole product of extreme joomla . throughout the rest of 2009 the parent company webspark inc. underwent several internal changes in staff ; and focus was shifted away from new release development and support of the jforce 2.0 system . it was early 2010 when the company could again focus on the system and return to address the current state of developmental updates and support to members of the extreme joomla site in earnest . even though the system had just within the year been re coded the lead developer on the project called for a code review which ultimately led to a company wide analysis of the system . the choice to revamp jforce 2.0 and narrow its focus strictly to project management objectives was made . the current team of developers worked as quickly and as carefully as possible to create flawless code on the existing jforce 2.0 framework while also providing support to the current membership . in early part of the 2010 transitions within the company were apparent to the extreme joomla membership and entire joomla community . a new home site was established ; the system was transferred to the new site as the old site became just a letter of explanation to the membership ; and communication via site blogging and a campaign of email newsletters in order to keep the membership updated became a company priority . extreme joomla was dissolved and jforce a new division of webspark inc. was established . the current developers have a very strong background in pure joomla extension development and have developed a custom version of jforce to be used by joomla.org . software edit jforce offers only one software system at this time . jforce pm is a strictly project management system that is developed to be installed directly on a joomla website . it is dramatically unique in the service that it offers to the joomla community . it runs native on joomla 1.5 and utilizes proper mvc model view controller code formatting . the customer has complete control and flexibility to store all their information on the server of their choosing . they can format the layout and organize the information according to their preferences and current site design . it is available in 3 different editions the community edition the professional edition and the enterprise edition . the community edition contains all the foundational aspects of project management and is completely free of charge . 3 it is offered under the gnu gpl license type that joomla is founded . 4 this community version provides a way for jforce to give back to the open source community . the professional edition builds on the community version by adding several advanced project management features and is available at a one time purchase fee which allows the user access to the system code ; as well as any system updates released by the jforce development team and system support for a 6 month period . the enterprise edition is meant for any company that would like the jforce pm system completely customized for their specific business needs . the software completed a successful beta testing phase in august 2010 . product launch coincided with joomla s 5th birthday september 1 2010 . 5 competitors edit projectfork from pixel praise references edit http www.alamancechamber.com directory default.asp mode 1 & sort technology % 20 % 20software % 20 % 20services http www.tmcnet.com news 2009 01 28 3947286 . htm http extensions.joomla.org extensions communities a groupware project a task management 13832 qh ytoxontpoja7czo2oijqzm9yy2uio30 % 3d http www.joomla.org about joomla the project mission vision and values.html http www.ostraining.com blog thoughts happy 5th birthday joomla external links edit jforce.com websparkinc.com joomla.org retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title jforce & oldid 739871935 categories companies based in north carolinainternet companies of the united statesproject management softwarehidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from december 2014all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles that may contain original research from december 2014all articles that may contain original researchorphaned articles from august 2012all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 15 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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