Hosted Confluence from Atlassian
BACKGROUND
Atlassian was founded in 2002 to develop JIRA, a professional bug and issue tracker. The product quickly gained a strong word-of-mouth following that spread across the IT community. JIRA also created a new market and niche between free open source software and expensive commercial software.
By 2004 the company had grown to six developers. Unimpressed with the bevy of wikis on the market, the team created Confluence, the enterprise wiki, which has become the company's second biggest product after JIRA. In January 2007, the company doubled the number of products it sold when it released Bamboo and Crowd. Eight months later in August Atlassian acquired Cenqua, developers of FishEye, Crucible and Clover. Early in 2008 Atlassian released JIRA Studio, a hosted version of its product suite.
Atlassian's customer base and revenue quadrupled and tripled during the first few years. It was recognized by BRW Magazine three years in a row as one of Australia's fastest growing business. In 2006, Mike and Scott were awarded Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award for Australia, becoming the youngest entrepreneurs to ever win the prestigious award. (Learn more about this and other awards we've won).
In addition to eschewing traditional enterprise software, the company forged a different sales and marketing model, relying on word of mouth and selling their products online without the use of an outbound sales force. The company remains private and has no institutional or venture capital investment.
Today Atlassian has over 195 employees worldwide in Sydney, San Francisco and Amsterdam, along with a strong product lineup of 7 collaboration and development software tools. Over 15,200 organisations in more than 113 countries are now customers of Atlassian.
OPEN SOURCE
Atlassian strongly believes in open source software. We support and contribute to the open source community in a number of ways — supplying our own code, supporting other projects by donating our software, and sponsoring Java User Groups.
PLUGIN FRAMEWORK
Atlassian's plugin framework allows developers to create plugins which extend the functionality of Atlassian applications such as JIRA and Confluence. The plugin framework features a mature OSGi container that keeps plugins properly isolated from your application while allowing plugins to selective share services and code with each other.
FEATURES: Confluence is the enterprise wiki. It provides innovative solutions to the communication problems facing organisational teams today.
Wiki basics
Create - Your pages are editable. Instantly. Online.
Workspaces - Because your organisation is too big for just one wiki.
Notify - Keep up-to-date with the information that matters to you.
Organise - Link, tag, index, cross-reference, search, hierarchify!
Search - Everything is searchable. Everything.
Administer - Powerful, simple admin. No geniuses required.
Beyond wikis -
Blogs - Timely information — notices, bulletins, news and blogs.
Documents - Attach, track, view and search your documents.
Discuss - follow the thread of team discussions. Personal - Create your own personal space and follow other users.
Secure - Confluence brings enterprise security to the wiki arena.
Easy-to-use - Not just a pretty face. It works well. It feels right.
Project management with JIRA - Bring the full power of JIRA issue tracking to your wiki.
Extend and customise
Plugins - More than a wiki, Confluence is an extensible application platform.
Customise - Tailor Confluence to your organisation's style.
Integrate - From daily office tools to enterprise systems.
Import - Migrate your current wiki with the Universal Wiki Converter.
Open - Confluence plays well with others.
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