Atlassian Integrates Confluence Enterprise Wiki With Microsoft SharePoint.Connection of Market-Leading Products Lets Customers Share Content and Collaborate 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 -- At the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit today, Atlassian announced the integration of Microsoft (MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Atlassian Confluence Confluence is a commercial Java EE based knowledge management and collaboration tool produced by Atlassian Software Systems. It is a wiki, and can be used as a bliki. Confluence is free for personal, philanthropic and open-source projects. , the world's most popular 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. . Users of SharePoint and Confluence will be able to access and share content across these two popular technologies. "Both Confluence and SharePoint are popular with our users. Currently the data is separate and people can only collaborate in one or the other," said Geoffrey Corb, IT Director at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. . "Bridging these can only help the loyal Microsoft users and the committed Confluence users." The connector will feature: * Search: Users can search SharePoint and Confluence content together from one place. * Content sharing: From within SharePoint, users can embed Confluence page contents allowing users to blend content. * Linking: Within Confluence, users can access SharePoint document facilities. By including SharePoint lists and content within Confluence, users, in a single click, can edit Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. documents. * Single Sign-On and Security: With one login, users can access both systems while seeing only what they have permission to view. "Many of our customers have asked us how to get Confluence and SharePoint Server 2007 to work together better," said Atlassian 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. and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes. "Starting today we can provide them with a complete solution." "In the enterprise, customers want integration," said Derek Burney, SharePoint General Manager at Microsoft. "This integration further validates our strategy to design SharePoint Server 2007 as a platform for best-of-breed Enterprise 2.0 solutions. By combining the market leading collaboration, social computing and enterprise content management capabilities of SharePoint with the Confluence wiki, customers can now integrate the two products together to achieve their business goals." The SharePoint Connector for Confluence is available now on the Atlassian website at www.atlassian.com/sharepoint. About Atlassian 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, is a global company that builds lightweight enterprise software to help distributed teams collaborate. Atlassian's affordable, enterprise software products include JIRA JIRA Japan Industries Association of Radiological Systems (trade organization) JIRA Japan Investor Relations Association , one of the world's most popular issue trackers for IT project management, and Confluence, widely recognized as the most-advanced enterprise wiki. The company has more than 8,500 customers in 95 countries, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations, spanning the Fortune 1000, public enterprise, government, academic, science and technology sectors. All products are free to qualified open source and non-profit organizations. For more information, please visit us at http://www.atlassian.com. |
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