Archives for the tag: Crowd

Crowd 2.1 Arrives in a Blaze of REST, LDAP and C

Crowd 2.1 is out. It's even chunkier than Crowd 2.0, with almost 230 votes satisfied. There's a new, comprehensive REST API. If you're integrating your applications with Crowd, you'll love it. It makes supporting nested groups simple, and supports far better search capabilities than the SOAP API. The SOAP API won't be disappearing, but the REST API is far easier to use. We've rewritten the Apache and Subversion connector in C. It's now far faster, uses less memory, and handles SSO and nested groups

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Atlassian's technical writers are holding our second Doc Sprint on the 4th and 5th of November 2010. It's happening in Sydney, in San Francisco and online and you're invited! If you can't join us in person, you can drop in on our daily webinar sessions, follow the buzz in our online chat room and subscribe to our email list. What is a Doc Sprint? A Doc Sprint is a short (two-day) event when a group of people collaborate and focus on writing a specific set of documentation. What's our second Doc Sprint

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Crowd 2.0 Is Here!

Atlassian is absolutely stoked to announce Crowd 2.0. This release is the biggest Crowd release we've ever put together and is the result of over six months of very hard work by the entire Crowd team. We've satisfied over 220 votes, including all the top three issues. Some of the highlights: User aliases - integrate applications that don't support renaming users. Massive performance increases - so big we spent a week checking they were real. Some calls are a thousand times faster on PostgreSQL! New

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Wiki Theater – Five Killer Use Cases for Wikis

Every conference we attend seems to be full of passionate Atlassian customers. Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week was no exception. We got to catch up with dozens of Confluence customers including folks from Bank of America, VSP, and Kaiser Permanente just to name a few. We also got to do some wiki evangelizing in Atlassian's 2nd Annual Wiki Theater. Since the conference theme was Doing More with Less, attendees were rather receptive to the idea of getting more out of their wiki. Below is one

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Webinar with one of the nation’s oldest consultancies

The Right Information to the Right People at the Right Time: How Booz Allen Hamilton leverages Confluence and other Enterprise 2.0 tools Our upcoming Voice of the Customer webinar will be presented by Walton Smith of Booz Allen Hamilton. Walton Smith is one of Booz Allen's thought leaders in social media. Through his visionary approach, Mr. Smith led an internal corporate strategy engagement for Booz Allen's entire Knowledge Management and Information Sharing Program, a cross-team effort to improve

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