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Atlassian

Type	Private
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Sydney, Australia
Key people	Mike Cannon-Brookes Scott Farquhar
Industry	Software
Products	JIRA Confluence Crowd Bamboo FishEye Clover Crucible JIRA Studio
Revenue	$35 million
Employees	200
Website	www.atlassian.com

Atlassian is an Australian headquartered software company specializing in software development tools and collaboration software.

In 2008, the company entered the software as a service business with their release of JIRA Studio, a hosted suite of tools for agile software development teams.

Contents 1 History 2 Acquisitions 3 Software 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] History

Based in Sydney, with offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Tokyo,^[1] Atlassian was founded in 2002 by technology entrepreneurs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. In 2005 the firm was recognised by Deloitte as one of Australia's fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific. In 2006 Mike and Scott were named Ernst & Young's Australian Entrepreneur of the Year^[2].

• 2002: Founded in Sydney, Australia
• 2003: JIRA launched
• 2004: Confluence launched
• 2005: US office in San Francisco opened
• 2006: Sales in over 74 countries; Atlassian HQ moved to Corn Exchange building, acquired Authentisoft IDX (a SSO Java EE solution)
• 2007: Bamboo and Crowd products are launched
• 2007: Cenqua acquisition, FishEye, Crucible, and Clover acquired
• 2008: Amsterdam and Tokyo office opened, JIRA Studio launched, sales in 106 countries

[edit] Acquisitions

In September 2006, Atlassian acquired Authentisoft^[3], a Minneapolis-based software company that specialises in application and security technologies from entrepreneurs Justen Stepka and Farzad Freshtekhu. Authentisoft produces IDX, a single sign-on Java EE solution for centralizing authentication, authorisation and administrative tasks.

On 1 August 2007, Atlassian acquired Cenqua ^[4], a supplier of software engineering tools FishEye, Clover and Crucible.

Atlassian acquired GreenHopper^[5] on January 3, 2009, from agile consulting company, Pyxis Tech. GreenHopper is an agile project management plugin to JIRA.

[edit] Software

Their main products are:

• JIRA, an issue tracking and project management system,
• Confluence, an enterprise wiki, and
• Crowd, a single sign-on identity management system.

Software engineering tools include:

• Bamboo, a continuous integration system,
• FishEye, a source code repository analysis tool,
• Clover, a code coverage reporting application, and
• Crucible, an online code review application. Although Crucible is a commercial product, it is freely available to open source projects and non-profit institutions. Some features include offline and asynchronous code reviewing,^[6][7] inline source commenting, threaded comments with metrics, workflow, notifications, and integration with IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse via the Atlassian IDE Connector.^[8].

[edit] See also

• Confluence
• JIRA
• Bamboo
• Clover
• Crowd
• FishEye
• JIRA Studio
• Atlassian IDE Connector

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Confluence Rated Editor's Choice for Best Commercial Wiki (PR Web)
• Atlassian Receives Deloitte Fast 500 Award (PR Web)
• Atlassian acquires Authentisoft
• Atlassian Ranked 10th Fastest Company in 2006 BRW Fast 100 List (Business Wire)
• Atlassian Wins 2007 Jolt Awards for Collaboration and Productivity First Jolt Win for Confluence, Third in a Row Hat Trick for JIRA (dBusinessNews)
• Atlassian JIRA Studio launch at Java One 2008.
• The riddle that is Atlassian (CNET)