New Release Encourages Conversations and Collaboration, Helps Users Make Sense of Information Overload
SAN FRANCISCO & SYDNEY, April 10, 2012—Atlassian, a leading provider of collaboration software for product teams, today announced the newest release of Confluence, its content creation and collaboration software. Confluence 4.2 accelerates team productivity with new social user engagement and content discovery features. Quick Comments and Likes encourage users to start conversations and share feedback. These contributions power the new Popular Content stream enabling users to discover what’s “hot right now”. Personalized weekly and daily summary emails recommend popular content, ensuring users never miss what is most important. Additionally, Atlassian continues to enrich the editing experience in Confluence with visual page layouts, letting everyday users create high-fidelity web pages with visual, drag-and-drop editing. Confluence is available as a cloud offering or behind the firewall.
“We created the new release of Confluence to provide the fastest, richest, most intuitive content collaboration environment for teams of all shapes and sizes,” said Jean-Michel Lemieux, vice president of engineering at Atlassian. “We want to make sure that it’s easy for users to stay-up-to date with everything that’s happening, and help them identify what’s most important. Confluence 4.2 leverages new social features to guarantee teams are always in-the-know and engaged.”
More than half of Fortune 100 companies and over 70 percent of top U.S. colleges and universities use Confluence to connect users with the content and co-workers they need to get their jobs done, faster and more efficiently. Originally launched in 2004, Confluence is an industry-leading collaboration product used by organizations such as BMW, Nike and GlaxoSmithKline.
“When we showed some of our global brand customers the cool new features in Confluence 4.2 — how you can now label attachments, quickly show appreciation for a co-worker or even use the new Page Layout function to create the most amazing pages ever – they could barely resist the urge to send us chocolates,” said Tom Moors of ACA IT-Solutions, a global consultancy and solutions provider.
Confluence’s new Popular Content feature helps users discover the most popular wiki pages, blog posts, and comments from users. Social collaboration and discussion around content is driven via a familiar Like button and frictionless Quick Comments. Personalized Weekly or Daily summary emails surface popular content from across a company helping everyone stay on the same page. A selection of rich page layouts empower all users of all skill levels to contribute and create engaging content.
Availability
Starting today, Confluence 4.2 is available for a free 30-day trial or can be purchased for onsite download or OnDemand starting at $10/month for 10 users. The Confluence ecosystem features 175 consulting partners and more than 400 free and commercial add-ons, including Atlassian’s Team Calendars, available on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange.
“Looking ahead, we’re focused on continuing to make Confluence the one place where teams don’t just talk about work — they actually get work done,” said Matt Hodges, Atlassian’s product marketing manager for Confluence. “We’re continuing to invest in rich content creation and now have a renewed focus on social sharing and content discovery, creating the richest, most well-rounded social platform on the market.”
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