Atlassian Announces Confluence 3.0

New Features Help Users Create Richer Content and Establish Social Connection
with Teammates
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
Atlassian announced today the launch of Confluence 3.0, the newest generation of
the world's most popular enterprise wiki. This latest version builds upon the
product's strengths as a platform for enterprise collaboration and content
generation, and adds new social features to improve content sharing and
discovery.

Confluence now offers a new point-and-click editor that makes it easy for users
to build content-rich wiki pages in just seconds. The release also includes
several new social features, including the ability to share status updates,
follow colleagues, build richer profiles and view activity streams from your
network.

"The team has put in hundreds of hours of development to create the best version
of Confluence yet. There are some awesome new features to help users of all
skill levels contribute content, share what they're working on and connect with
their coworkers," said Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian CEO and co-founder.

Powerful Page-building, Made Simple for Everyone

Confluence 3.0 introduces the Macro Browser, a new way for users of all
experience levels to build content-rich pages in seconds. The macro browser
exposes hundreds of page editing capabilities - charts, task lists, photo
galleries, RSS feeds and more - through a point-and-click graphical interface.

"I am LOVING the new Macro Browser tool for Confluence 3.0. Finally end-users
can access macros and their fidly settings," said Stuart French, Knowledge
Manager with Daniels Sharpsmart. Confluence 3.0 comes bundled with over 80
out-of-the box macros and can be extended with hundreds of other third party
plugins like Balsamiq mockups or Gliffy diagrams.

An Exchange for Plugins and Extensions

Atlassian also announced the launch of the Atlassian Plugin Exchange, an online
community where customers can discover, evaluate and rate hundreds of plugins
created by the Confluence developer community. Plugins allow customers to extend
the functionality of their Confluence site, adding features like visual
diagrams, mind maps, and UI mockups without changing the core wiki platform.
"It's beginning to be a chore to determine what Confluence cannot do these
days," says Tom Crespi, a Change Management professional in St Louis, Mo.

Popular plugins like Balsamiq, Gliffy and Adaptavist Theme Builder are already
available on the site. More information about the Atlassian Plugin Exchange can
be found at http://plugins.atlassian.com

A Social Experience

Confluence 3.0 also includes a series of new features that help people discover
new colleagues and experts through the content they contribute to the wiki, and
establish valuable connections and networks to coworkers. The features that
improve people discovery include:

Hover Profile: hover over a users name wherever it appears in Confluence to view
summary profile information, follow the user or click into his complete user
profile;

Enhanced User Profiles - personal profiles now let users enter personal
information like position, department and location while displaying the user's
recent activity, current status and people in their network.

Redesigned Personal Spaces - Each user's personal space now includes a
collapsible side panel that shows detailed profile information such as recent
activity, current status and people in their network.

The features that improve people connections and relationships include:

Status Updates - post a 140-character message to share links, ask questions or
simply inform coworkers on what you're working on;

Networks - follow other users to add them to your personal network and track
their activity throughout your Confluence site;

Activity Streams - view an aggregated stream of all the activity recently
undertaken by all the users in your network;

Customer-Focused Improvements

Confluence 3.0 also delivers a number of customer-requested improvements such
as:

Upgraded PDF Export - PDF export now produces higher quality output and provides
greater control through customized stylesheets, title pages, headers and
footers.

Major performance improvements - Response times for clustered environments are
up to 100% faster while response times for standalone environments are up to 40%
faster.

About Confluence

Confluence is used by over 9000 customers, including Adobe, IBM, Shell, Nike and
BMW among others, to collaborate and share critical business content. Confluence
3.0 has also been updated with new tiered pricing plan. To view the new pricing
or download a free 30-day evaluation, please visit:
http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/.

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 15,000 customers
worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations. For more
information, visit: www.atlassian.com/

For media inquiries:
Atlassian
Laura Khalil, 415-701-1110

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