Archives for the tag: Crowd

Crowd Connects Web Apps, LDAP

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On March 5, 2007
Crowd 1.0, our single sign-on authentication software, was launched today. The full press release is here. For this release, I decided to do a short interview with Justen Stepka, the lead developer of Crowd. (I had wanted to publish the interview as an MP3 audio file, but my first podcast contained way too much background static, so I've transcribed the interview here) What is Crowd and how will people use it? Crowd is all about making single sign-on and identity management easy. What we did is

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Crowd(ed) Debate

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On December 19, 2006
Following the London Atlassian User Group there was a lot of online discussion about Crowd. In The Wisdom of Crowd? (and at the user group), Miles Metcalfe asked whether Crowd would have Shibboleth. UK institutions will be pushed to Shibboleth once their current access management service, Athens, becomes chargeable. Justen Stepka, lead developer on Crowd, responded on his personal blog ("While Shibboleth seems to be very fine tuned, I seem to have more stock in CAS which has an even larger following

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Introducing Crowd

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On December 15, 2006
A few months ago, I blogged about the acquisition of Authentisoft and their product IDX. Three months later, we're happy to announce that IDX is now available as an Atlassian product, Crowd. Justen Stepka, co-founder at Authentisoft and lead developer on Crowd, blogged about it here, too. User management is a problem that plagues just about every company and IT department. Through a simple web-based interface, Crowd allows you to manage all your users, connect all your user directories (LDAP, Active

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Atlassian User Group Roundup

The first Atlassian User Group (AUG) meeting in Virginia this week was a tremendous success. Wil Anderson and I flew in from San Francisco on Monday night, and Scott arrived that night from Sydney (by way of Kuala Lumpur and then London). The meeting was held Tuesday evening at a lovely hotel in Falls Church VA. About 50 users attended, from all around the D.C. area. We also were lucky to meet a few of our partners from the area, including the folks from our sponsor, IntelliObjects. We had three

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Atlassian Acquires Authentisoft Single Sign-on User Management

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
  • About News
  • On September 7, 2006
Finding a good single sign-on solution has been a goal for many organisations looking to simplify user management. Tomorrow on the business wires we'll be officially announcing the acquisition of Minneapolis-based Authentisoft, a company that creates IDX, a single sign-on Java EE solution. Over the next few months, we'll be working on the application to make it more Atlassian-like, however today IDX is fully-functional and works natively with JIRA and Confluence. We're even happier to announce that

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