I am very excited to announce the release of FishEye 2 and Crucible 2. Both of these products have undergone a complete UI makeover with improved usability and productivity features focused on agile development. FishEye and Crucible help you explore your source code and conduct code reviews that actually work.
After announcing the betas of both products at Atlassian Summit about a month ago, we had several hundred people download and try it, many of which provided us with valuable feedback. Check out the new features below and download the latest version to upgrade or try a free 30-day evaluation.
FishEye 2: Explore your source
FishEye, our source code repository browser, has add a whole new dimension for looking at the activity in your repository by focusing on the people that contribute to your code and letting you follow what they are doing.
View all activity - Keep tabs on the people and source code you care about.
Explore your source - Search, navigate and report on your source code from any browser.
Collaborate with your team - Share source code with your team. Add code insight to your existing tools, like JIRA and Crucible.
Crucible 2: Code review that works!
Crucible, our peer code review tool, has also taken a major leap forward introducing the concept of "iterative code review". Your development environment is constantly changing, and that should not to get in the way of an effective review process.
We created a special piece of collateral to hand out at our booth at last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference. Confluence 3.0 has some great, new social features, but rather than tell the story through a typical sales datasheet, we invented Bill and John, two cartoon characters trying to overcome a few coworker TMI issues — too much information. Fortunately, Confluence-man comes to the rescue.
A huge congratulations goes out to Walton Smith and team at Booz Allen Hamilton for their winning the Open Enterprise Innovation Award at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week.
Booz Allen's Hamilton is a 90-year-old consulting firm with over 20K employees. Walton helped create Hello.bah.com, a platform combining 'best of breed enterprise 2.0 tools' including Confluence. It's a great example of a large, mature firm can innovate with new ways to communicate, collaborate and share knowledge.
Stephen Walling at ReadWriteWeb also gives a great summary of Walton's Enterprise 2.0 presentation in Boston on Thursday. If you missed it, Walton also presented hello.bah in our March Voice of the Customer webinar which you can watch on Atlassian.com/tv.
Wil, Mike, and Doug gave a great presentation today on 3 of there plugins for our Plugin of the Month webinar:
1) Go2Group JaM Plugin - integrates JIRA and HP Quality Center, allowing developers in JIRA to display a list of available QC test cases/defects within a JIRA issue.
2) Go2Group CRM Plugin - integration between Atlassian JIRA and Salesforce or SugarCRM, providing tighter collaboration between support teams and sales teams.
3) Go2Group synapseRT Plugin - provides a dashboard within JIRA which displays requirements based on projects and releases, providing a comprehensive view into your entire development environment.
For past webinars, please hop on over to Atlassian TV where you can now sort videos by products and categories. For upcoming webinars, please visit our events page. If you would like to be in our webinar series, please contact us.
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Last week my colleague Matt wrote a piece explaining the history of macros, and how they have evolved over time. He showed how they were powerful ways to add content to your wiki but historically out-of-reach to the average user. Today, we want to shed some light on exactly how much has changed since day one and how easy Confluence 3.0 makes it for mere mortals to use macros.
As the video below shows, no longer do users need to concern themselves with typing inside of curly brackets and figuring out what parameters need to be set. All that's needed is an idea of what content you'd like to show and Confluence takes care of the rest. Matt showed you the old way of doing things. This video shows how much simpler it is today in Confluence 3.0.
The evolution of macros is, in a way, a reflection of Atlassian's own growth as a company. Atlassian has evolved from a highly technical team, mainly of developers, to a diverse range of departments. Teams such as Marketing, Customer Service, and Talent that did not exist before are now essential parts of Atlassian. Like many business users, our non-technical departments are thrilled to be able to embed task lists, charts, RSS feeds and other dynamic content into their wiki pages.
The future is bright for the Macro Browser. Plugins 2.0 and Atlassian Plugin Exchange set the foundation for building and discovering new plugins, while the Macro Browser makes the magic accessible to all users.
What are you doing still reading this post? Download Confluence 3.0 and see for yourself already!
FishEye, our source code repository browser, has add a whole new dimension for looking at the activity in your repository by focusing on the people that contribute to your code and letting you follow what they are doing.
Crucible, our peer code review tool, has also taken a major leap forward introducing the concept of "iterative code review". Your development environment is constantly changing, and that should not to get in the way of an effective review process.
