Monthly Archives: November 2007

We're excited to announce the launch of Crowd 1.2, the latest version of our centralized authentication, single sign-on and OpenID application. Crowd 1.2 is a major release with over 70 improvements. This version of Crowd gives sys admins greater control over directory permissions and additional features for use with OpenID, Subersion, Acegi and more. Taking a look at some of Crowd 1.2’s newest features: Crowd's directory permissions now allow finer-grained control, so that you can define the

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We're excited to announce a new OEM agreement with WANdisco. They have developed a new product, JIRA MultiSite and JIRA Clustering (one product, two configurations) that offers high availability and scalability for JIRA. This partnership helps underscore JIRA's capabilities as a platform for building powerful new extensions. The product leverages WANdisco's 'active-active' replication capabilities. These capabilities support clustering over a WAN or LAN, providing automated system failover and

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Upcoming Atlassian User Groups in Europe

Two European User Groups are coming up: * November 28, 2007 - Amsterdam * December 6, 2007 - London The event in Amsterdam is graciously being hosted by Atlassian partner Accenture. The event in London will be hosted by both Atlassian partners Headshift and netoCiety. For more information and to RSVP, please go here.

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Collaboration is not a dirty word

I've been at Atlassian for a month now, and it's time to admit that I never really got the whole wiki thing. (This is something I'm glad I didn't have to own up to during my interviews.) Until now. Before starting with Atlassian, I thought that Wikipedia was the only real world wiki. But apparently, Wikipedia is not the real world. I thought collaboration was something I was across — I was one of the more prolific users of the Sharepoint site at my old job. My family use a Drupal site to blog,

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SSO Integration: How Crowd Connected the Apps

We're excited to introduce our first Crowd case study! Learn how Appfire Technologies connected Crowd to a handful of different applications, including Salesforce.com. Also, read the how and the why Crowd is now Appfire Technologies' single sign-on (SSO) solution of choice. Here's a clip from the case study: Q: What's the real challenge when it comes to integration issues? A: Traditionally, the inherent problem with all of these integration projects is having multiple data stores — there

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Technology is a man’s world…. NOT

We've recently sponsored two SF Bay Area women's events and just agreed to sponsor a third, so it seemed like as good a time as any to blog about it. The sponsored events include Girls in Tech, She's Geeky, and the upcoming Women 2.0. All the blame or kudos :) for our involvement really belongs with one of the event organisers, Julia French, with whom we've worked with on-and-off over the last year on various projects. She's been a huge advocate for helping women find more opportunities in tech. Attracting

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