Atlassian Software Systems

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Atlassian

Type	Private
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Sydney, Australia
Key people	Mike Cannon-Brookes Scott Farquhar
Industry	Software
Products	JIRA Confluence Crowd Bamboo
Revenue	Unknown
Employees	Unknown
Website	www.atlassian.com/

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, a single sign-on identity management system.

Based in Sydney, Atlassian was founded in 2002 by technology entrepreneurs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. In 2005 the firm was recognised by Deloitte as one of Australia's fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific. In 2006 Mike and Scott were named Ernst & Young's Australian Entrepreneur of the Year.

[edit] Acquisitions

In Sept of 2006, Atlassian acquired Authentisoft, a Minneapolis-based software company that specialises in application and security technologies from entrepreneurs Justen Stepka and Farzad Freshtekhu. Founded in 2005, Authentisoft produces IDX, a single sign-on Java EE solution for centralising authentication, authorisation and administrative tasks. IDX enables IT administrators and application developers to integrate and deploy single sign-on infrastructures using popular directory servers such as Microsoft Active Directory and Mac OS X Open Directory.

On 1st of August 2007, Atlassian acquired Cenqua ^[1], a supplier of market-leading software engineering tools Clover, FishEye, and Crucible, establishing a strong position in the market of producing software development tools.