Atlassian

Atlassian
Type Private
Industry Software
Founded 2002
Headquarters Sydney, Australia
Key people Mike Cannon-Brookes
Scott Farquhar
Products JIRA
Confluence
Crowd
Bamboo
Bitbucket
FishEye
Clover
Crucible
JIRA Studio
Bonfire
Employees 273[1]
Website atlassian.com

Atlassian (/ˈætlæsiʌn/[2]) is a software company based in Sydney, Australia which makes business enterprise software, targeted at software developers.[3] On 1 September 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.[4]

Contents

Products

The Atlassian products Crucible, FishEye, Bamboo, Clover, and JIRA Studio are targeted at programmers working with a code base. Atlassian also produces tools such as its popular wiki Confluence,[5] and bug and issue tracker JIRA that are targeted more generally.[6] Atlassian is particularly well known for focusing on serving Agile software development, as well as practicing Agile itself.[7]

Atlassian has been described as an enterprise social software vendor.[8] Atlassian products are not open source for the most part, but are sold under a license which permits customers to view and modify code so long as they don't redistribute or resell it.[9]

On 29 September 2010, Atlassian bought Bitbucket, a web-based hosting service for projects that use both the Mercurial and the Git revision control system.[10][11]

Company

Atlassian was founded in Sydney in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, who met while studying at the University of New South Wales.[12] The company made $59 million in revenue in 2011,[1] is on a $100 million run rate for the current fiscal year[13] and has 26,000 customers globally.[14] It now also has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Tokyo.[3]

The company was self-funded for many years, starting with a $10,000 credit card taken out by the founders, but in July 2010 it raised its first institutional funding: $60 million in venture capital from Accel Partners.[15] On June 24, 2011, Atlassian announced its first big investment in another company: Cloud9, a SaaS-based IDE platform.[16]

People

Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO
Scott Farquhar, CEO
Jay Simons, President
Alex Estevez, CFO
Magda Walczak, VP Marketing
Daniel Freeman, VP Product Marketing
Jean-Michel Liemieux, VP Engineering
Audra Eng, VP Product Management
Andrew Rallings, VP Operations
Joris Luijke, VP Talent

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Our Company". Atlassian. http://www.atlassian.com/about/. 
  2. ^ "Atlassian Software Systems, Channel 9's Business Sunday (see 1:56)". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfyUbuFoiBU. 
  3. ^ a b "Atlassian". Crunchbase. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/atlassian. 
  4. ^ Thirty-One Visionary Companies Selected as Technology Pioneers 2011
  5. ^ Thoeny, Peter; Dan Woods (2007). Wikis for Dummies. ISBN 9780470043998. 
  6. ^ Sharwood, Simon (5 December 2006). "Love grows in collaboration". Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/love-grows-in-collaboration/2006/12/04/1165080883615.html. 
  7. ^ Abrahamsson, Pekka; Michele Marchesi, Frank Maurer (2009). Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. Springer. ISBN 9783642018527. 
  8. ^ Krill, Paul. "Social networking touted for software development". InfoWorld. http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/social-networking-touted-software-development-726. 
  9. ^ Asay, Matt. "The riddle that is Atlassian". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9760614-16.html. 
  10. ^ http://blog.bitbucket.org/2010/09/29/bitbucket-joins-atlassian/
  11. ^ http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/10/03/bitbucket-now-rocks-git/
  12. ^ Moses, Asher (15 July 2010). "From Uni dropouts to software magnates". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/entrepreneur/from-uni-dropouts-to-software-magnates-20100715-10bsm.html. 
  13. ^ http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2011/08/press_release_atlassian_caps_massive_revenue_growth_with_key.html
  14. ^ http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2011/09/atlassian_confluence_4_sets_the_standard_for_content_collabo.html
  15. ^ Tam, Pui-Wing (14 July 2010). "Accel Invests $60 Million in Atlassian". Digits (Wall Street Journal). http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/14/accel-invests-60-million-in-atlassian/. 
  16. ^ http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2011/06/atlassian_invests_in_cloud9_ide.html