Atlassian Automates Software Build Process with Bamboo.New Continuous Integration Build Server Gives Developers New Insight into Software Development SYDNEY, Australia -- Atlassian Software Systems Atlassian Software Systems is an Australian software company specialising in issue tracking and collaboration software. Their main products are JIRA, an issue tracking and project management system, Confluence, an enterprise wiki, Bamboo, a continuous integration system, and Crowd, today introduced Bamboo (http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo), server software that automates the process of continuously building, integrating and testing software code. Bamboo adds to the company's set of lightweight enterprise software products, a new category of software that differs from traditional enterprise software in terms of cost, ease of use, and flexibility. By automating the software build process and providing instant notification of problems with the software's code, Bamboo helps development teams reduce project risk, improve productivity and enhance software quality. "Builds are monotonous and painful for most software teams," said Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian co-founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Bamboo automates the process, and at the same time gives developers much greater insight into the engineering process than other build servers." Going beyond traditional continuous integration (http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo), Bamboo collates build metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. and offers dynamic reports and charts, providing greater insight into development processes. This insight, which Atlassian calls 'build telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. ,' helps team members spend less time tracking code problems, and helps managers identify trends, patterns and linkages across all builds. Bamboo's features include: * Dynamic notifications -- choose email, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. or instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or * Interoperability -- integrate with JIRA JIRA Japan Industries Association of Radiological Systems (trade organization) JIRA Japan Investor Relations Association , Maven, Ant and other popular development tools * Practical interface -- find information quickly and easily * Customisable reports -- drill down on pertinent statistics * Easy installer -- get up and running in no time Bamboo is available to evaluate and purchase today from the Atlassian website: http://www.atlassian.com/c/PR-B/11887 Licensing and pricing information for Bamboo can be found here: http://www.atlassian.com/c/PR-B/12080 About Atlassian Software Systems Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Its products include Confluence, widely recognised as the most advanced enterprise wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. , and JIRA, one of the world's most popular issue trackers for IT project management. The company has more than 5,500 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations. For more information, visit http://www.atlassian.com |
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