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Confluence 3.5 Released: Stronger JIRA Integration
Have you ever wanted to create JIRA issues from the Confluence Editor? What about being able to quickly insert recently viewed issues to generate ad-hoc reports in Confluence? Well, thanks to Confluence 3.5, now you can!
A new ‘Insert JIRA Issue’ dialog lets you to
- create new issues,
- insert recently viewed issues,
- and search for existing issues to embed in Confluence pages.
One possible useful scenario for this feature is tracking the action items for meeting minutes. With this new feature, there is no more need to dig up all the meeting minutes to see if the action items are completed.
Check out the short video below to see the features in action.
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Atlassian Named 2011 Technology Pioneer at World Economic Forum
Atlassian, our partner and the developers of JIRA and Confluence has been selected as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
The thirty-one winners of this year’s award hailed from 13 countries. Past winners include some of the most sensational names in business such as Google, Mozilla and Twitter.
This is a strong endorsement of Atlassian’s leadership in the collaboration and software development market.
We extend our congratulations to Atlassian and share the honour of being an Atlassian Partner.
Here’s a short interview with Scott Farquhar, Atlassian’s Co-CEO
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Confluence 3.3 released
The latest version of Confluence has been released with a faster and simpler editor.
Here’s a short video clip summary of the new features released.
For details, you can also release to Confluence 3.3 release notes
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Confluence Sharepoint Connector 1.2 released
The latest version of the Confluence SharePoint Connector has been released. The key features in this release are:
- Support for SharePoint 2010
- Integrated Windows Authentication
- Easy Connection to Additional SharePoint Site Collections
- Multiple AD Domains
Confluence SharePoint Connector allows Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) users to tap on the strengths of Confluence wiki and its extensive plug-ins:
- viewing SharePoint content on Confluence and vice versa
- search within the content of pdf documents attached on Confluence pages
- drawing diagrams online with the Gliffy plugin
- drawing mockups with Balsamiq Mockups
- and many other plugins
While documents are commonly used for work, web pages are a better way to share information and collaboration. One of the strongest evidence is the Internet, where there are more web pages than documents. For a quick overview of the Confluence SharePoint Connector, check out the video below.
For more details on the new features of Confluence SharePoint Connector 1.2, please refer to the release notes
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Let’s turn Copenhagen into Hopenhagen
As the world recovers from the financial crisis, we are facing another impending crisis – The Climate Crisis.
We are experiencing more and more hurricanes in the recent years, hotter temperature and rising sea levels which means our houses may be submerged under water in time to come.
Although the world may not end in 2012, it is likely that the end may arrive soon if we do not start doing something about it now. A new movement “HopenHagen” is gathering the support of all the citizens of Earth to demand world leaders to take proactive action to reduce carbon emissions to 350ppm (parts per million) and preventing irreversible climate damage.
Akeles Consulting invite you to join HopenHagen together with us to make a difference now.
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2 good news for Atlassian users
Great news from our partner. Atlassian has been named by IDC as “10 Innovative Applications Companies under $100M to watch“. Atlassian has exemplified herself in the following key trends in applications:
- Acceleration of software as a service (SaaS), business process outsourcing (BPO), and open source over traditional on-premise software
- New business models for software use by service providers (software-within-a-service)
- Web 2.0-like functionality moves into the enterprise (e2.0).
Another great news is that Atlassian has moved up ranks in this year’s Gartner‘s Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace. The report cites
Atlassian is a Challenger because it has demonstrated the ability to penetrate a global market with its popular wiki functionality…
Both news are good recognition of Atlassian’s good business strategy and effort to deliver good & useful applications to the world.
For our clients on Confluence and JIRA, you can rest assured that you are on a leading platform and expect more useful & interesting features in time to come.
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Trade in your bug tracker for a free version of JIRA 4.0
Atlassian is currently running a promotion for JIRA 4.0 for users to trade in their bug tracker for a free version of JIRA 4.0 (10-user licenses)
Beside keeping track of bugs and change requests, JIRA can also be used for
- Project Management – Track, allocate and report on project tasks with real-time statistics
- Technical Support /Helpdesk – Escalate cases, monitor response statistics and manage team workload.
- Agile Development – Estimate, allocate and track your iterations.
For those that haven’t tried using JIRA, here’s a good opportunity to try out the full enterprise edition of JIRA with no cost!
For those are using JIRA, you might want to share this information to your colleagues who are still using Excel worksheets, Bugzilla or other tools to track issues.
Here’s 10 more good reasons why you want to consider this attractive offer now.
For more details on this promotion, you may check out Atlassian’s website.
And here’s a quick preview on the new features to be launched in JIRA 4.0
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Theme Builder and Community Bubbles plugins for Confluence are going for free
Good news for the Confluence user community. Adaptavist has announced that they are giving out their Theme Builder and Community Bubbles plugins for free.
We will also be able to share with our customers on the great benefits of these 2 tools. Thank you, Adaptavist 🙂
For more information, check out Adaptavist’s announcement
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Theme Builder allows users to customize the design and navigation of their Confluence wiki.
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Community Bubbles is an addon to add forums and community features to the Confluence wiki
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Launch of Confluence 3.0
Confluence 3.0 has just been launched yesterday with many new features and improvements over the previous version:
- Now users can tap on the power of the macros easily without learning the makeup language with the macro browser
- They can find out more about their coworkers and discover experts with enhanced user profiles
- They can connect with their coworkers with Status Update (Twitter for your enterprise) and activities stream within their network.
Check out the video for a quick overview of what’s new!
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2656857&w=425&h=350&fv=]more about "Confluence – 3.0 Overview video", posted with vodpodFor more details, you can check out Atlassian’s official announcement on Confluence 3.0
And here is how the community has reacted to Confluence 3.0’s launch.
Gil Yehuda, a former Forrester Analyst:
I found though both formal and informal surveys that Confluence lives at or near the top of the list of Enterprise Wikis when I speak to large enterprises. I can’t quote the formal data, but I can share the following anecdote: Many times I’ll ask a crowd how many people use wikis in their organization, then I’ll ask how many of those installations are Confluence. Typically about half of those who say they are using a wiki will keep their hands up.
Many large enterprises, like Accenture or Sun, have sanctioned Confluence as their IT approved wiki standard. Customers frequently use Atlassian’s Universal Wiki Converter to migrate other wikis to Confluence.
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Akeles’ 1st exhibition
This coming friday, we will be taking part in our first exhibition at the Meet-The-Members session organized by SiTF (Singapore infocomm Technology Federation).
We will be sharing with the attendees on how they can make use of JIRA & Confluence to help them in their businesses. You might want to pop by our booth to say hi to us.
The agenda of the event
Registration
It is free for SiTF members and $20 for non-members. You can
register here. Parking is free.The Venue
CrimsonLogic
31, Science Park Road. The CrimsonShare this post
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