Atlassian Crowd Connects Active Directory, Web Applications.Single Sign-On An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. Solution Helps Businesses Manage Users, Permissions Across Multiple Web-Based Applications SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- 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 announced the general availability of Crowd, a single sign-on application for helping businesses manage authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. and authorisation for multiple web-based applications. Pricing for Crowd starts at US$600 per license, making the software affordable for small businesses as well as the world's largest enterprises. A fully functional 30-day evaluation of Crowd is available at www.atlassian.com/software/crowd. Crowd enables IT administrators and application developers to quickly integrate and deploy single sign-on using popular directories such as Microsoft Active Directory and Apple OS X Open Directory. As well as giving IT administrators a single consolidated point of user management, Crowd gives end-users the convenience of single sign-on across Atlassian JIRA JIRA Japan Industries Association of Radiological Systems (trade organization) JIRA Japan Investor Relations Association , Confluence, or any other non-Atlassian, web-based applications in their business. "Other single sign-on solutions tend to be quite complex and expensive," said Mike Cannon-Brookes, 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. at Atlassian. "By contrast, we've applied the same philosophy to Crowd as we take with our other products: it's a flexible, fully customisable enterprise application available at a fraction of the cost of most enterprise software." By eliminating the complexity of developing and integrating single sign-on applications into a unified security architecture, Crowd makes single sign-on simple. Crowd includes a powerful administration console for managing directories, users and their security rights. Features include: * simple to use administration console for managing users and their various security rights; * support for custom user stores; * support for unlimited users (with the Unlimited User license) and user stores; * pre-built Java libraries; * support for Microsoft Active Directory and Apple OS X Open Directory; * database support including DB2, Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. , Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL; * chained authentication and authorisation rules to support multiple directories views to a single application client; * integrates with Atlassian's other products: JIRA (a professional issue tracker), Confluence (an 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 Atlassian's newest product, Bamboo (a continuous integration build server). Designed for use in any IT environment, Crowd runs on the most popular J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. servers and supports nearly all JDBC-compliant databases. In September 2006, Atlassian acquired Authentisoft, a Minnesota-based software company that had developed IDX (IDX Systems Corporation, South Burlington, VT, www.idx.com) One of the largest health care information systems companies in the country, acquired in 2006 by GE Healthcare (www.gehealthcare.com), a unit of the General Electric Company. , a single sign-on solution. Since that time, IDX was rebranded to its current name, Crowd, and new features have been added to improve the ease of use and extensibility of the application. Crowd is available to evaluate and purchase today from the Atlassian website. About Atlassian Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Its products include Confluence, widely recognized as the most advanced enterprise wiki, 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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