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JavaOne Conference 2008 - Atlassian Laura Khalil, +1-415-627-8347 Jeff Leyser, +1-415-627-8347 Atlassian today announced the release of JIRA Studio, the all-in-one, on-demand development suite. JIRA Studio is a hosted development environment that solves one of the biggest headaches for developers: the deployment and maintenance of their tools. JIRA Studio includes many of Atlassian's award-winning products and provides a world-class issue
tracker, an enterprise wiki for collaboration, as well as the ability to manage the code repository and manage code reviews.
A recent McKinsey report (May 2007) highlights the growth of software as a service (SaaS) because SaaS provides, "more frequent upgrades, a lower cost of ownership and a higher level of service." McKinsey expects that development tools will migrate to SaaS by 2010 -- however, Atlassian is bringing SaaS to developers today. JIRA Studio fills that niche, integrating Atlassian's award-winning tools, together in a single secure hosted development environment, hosted by Contegix.
"Whether you're a development shop, a professional services team or an IT group, JIRA Studio gets your team up and running in as little as an hour and no more than a day," said Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO and co-founder of Atlassian. "Since we're maintaining the applications, our customers can focus on writing brilliant code and project management."
Highlights of JIRA Studio include:
Activity Stream: Inspired by Facebook, the Activity Stream displays real-time updates and activity from the wiki, tasks, bugs, source commits and code reviews
Project Toolbar: JIRA Studio is comprised of many tools which seamlessly work together. The Project Toolbar, available on every JIRA Studio page, lets you switch between your projects with only a couple of clicks
Product Integrations: easily cross-link issues and bugs to the wiki as well as source code and code reviews
Importing: import existing JIRA and Subversion databases into JIRA Studio
Pricing for JIRA Studio is $50 per user per month. Volume discounts for large deployments are available. Pricing is online at
www.atlassian.com/hosted/studio.
Users can log on to a demo of JIRA Studio at
demo.jira.com.
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 11,000 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations. For more information, visit: www.atlassian.com/.
About Contegix
Contegix provides high-level managed hosting solutions for enterprise applications. We deliver proactive, passionate support that is unparalleled in the industry. We were our first client, building a reliable infrastructure for the hosting of our software development customers. That success led us to offer hosting services to other companies, ultimately matching our expertise in system administration and software development with a superior level of support that matched our original internal needs. Contegix is a national company with a hard-won reputation for reliable hosting, reasonable pricing and expert support that goes beyond managed hosting. With a focus on the Linux, OSX, and JEE markets, Contegix continues to provide advanced connectivity solutions, such as our trademark Beyond Managed Hosting(R) service, colocation, and managed application delivery. We have not lost sight of our founding mission - to deliver high level hosting, support, and connectivity for enterprise applications. Contegix is based in St. Louis, MO, with a seasoned leadership that has been answering the hosting needs of businesses for over 10 years. Interested in learning more please visit:
www.contegix.com.
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