Did you notice the new link on the left? Under Partner Resources, I included a new link to our Partner Control Center. This
isn't a new tool, but rather one that I wanted to highlight to ensure you knew where to find immediate answers to your
license, download, and ordering questions.
I've captured an image of the My Account page, which you can find at:
Once you've entered your user name and password, you'll be greeted with a page similar to the screen capture image in
the Partner Control Center. I've listed an explanation of each section but if you have more detailed questions, I'd be happy
to walk you through them.
I hope this helps in answering some of the administrative questions that might pop up durnig an engagement, as well
as providing links to help support your needs.
I use NetVibes as my home page - a great tool that uses very little resources but is an exceptional aggregator,
perfect for those who like to keep up with their interests no matter their location.
One of the feeds I subscribe to is VARBusiness through the ChannelWeb source. I skim the headlines to keep
a regular eye on any market shifts or Atlassian-related news. The one that caught my eye was titled:
What Customers Want From VARs
The article attempts to get the reader excited about the forthcoming VARBusiness Market Insight Report,
which could be a valuable tool. However, I thought the following statement was a good one:
What she values most in those (VAR) partners: expertise,
price and quality of service
As I thought about how these three attributes fit with our Partner program, I thought we were focusing
on similar objectives. Our Partner's expertise is growing very quickly, which is very exciting and
something we need to be able to package up as a big value add. The pricing on our products is quite
aggressive and it's a true competitive and defendible position in our served markets. Finally, the
quality of service is right up there but definitely improving from an Atlassian point of view,
which should help our Partners provide top-notch service.
You can read the entire article here:
http://www.channelweb.com/sections/allnews/article.jhtml?articleId=192205097&cid=ChannelWebNews
From the Atlassian Blog: Dextrus Prosoft, Inc. and Atlassian Software Systems announced a new partnership
wherein Dextrus Prosoft will resell Atlassian's line of collaboration and project management applications.
"This will strengthen our current portfolio of product offerings", said a Dextrus Prosoft Spokesperson,
"Atlassian has very well established, reputable and likable products. And with our background in open
source consulting & solutions we are very certain that this will bring the right mix of solution for our
current and prospective clients. Our clients will benefit in the short term but also in long-term too.
It will also give our clients the opportunity to gain maximum ROI on their investment and resources."
"For organisations that wish to capitalise on inexpensive, emerging technologies, including open source,
Dextrus Prosoft is an ideal company to partner with," said William Anderson, manager of the Atlassian
Partner Program. "Their professional services group has a great track record for building compelling
custom solutions for their clients. We look forward to watching this partnership grow."
Read the full release at: http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2006/08/dextrus_prosoft.html
We came across this article discussing "collaborative journalism". I think it's a great
idea to see how a certain market segment utilizes wikis. The comments section
should be fun to keep an eye on, especially with a reporter addressing them.
From a Partner perspective, I thought this could add some value as to how folks look at
wikis and how they use them for collaborative, interactive work. I'll be interested to
see the final story, especially if it makes it into Wired.
We've teamed up with IntelliObjects, one of our outstanding Partners based in the Mid-Atlantic region,
to put together our first Atlassian User Group (AUG) event! The AUG will be held in Falls Church, VA on
Tuesday, September 19. The current agenda includes topics on JIRA, Confluence, Agile Development, plug-
ins, our Developer Network, the introduction of Bamboo, and other attendee-generated discussions.
To find more information and to register, just click on over to our AUG wiki page. Additionally, if you
are interested in sponsoring/hosting a future event, do let us know.
We hope to see you there!
Stephen Danelutti of netoCiety, and an Atlassian Partner, posted a blog earlier this week espousing
the benefits of wikis:
The recommended Wiki (Confluence by Atlassian in this case), allows for Wikis within a
Wiki (Spaces) so that multiple entities such as teams, departments or organizations can
be served within one Wiki with collaboration amongst the entities still possible
Stephen's been doing some work with Confluence and its application as a document/content
management repository. One of the key values is the quick adpotion rate within teams and
companies, and the Wikis within a Wiki concept encourages this growth.
You can read the entire post at Stephen's blog: Transforming Business Weblog.
Great job Stephen!
We hosted the SF Web Innovators Network on Tuesday at our San Francisco office. It was the first time
many of us had been to SFWIN and the first time our office had hosted an event of this kind.
The event was great! I don't have a total tally at this point, but there must have been 100 people in our
office. There was plenty of food and drink, and the conversations and networking was lively. We met folks
from large companies to single-person start-ups. Some really great relationships were definitely born.
We don't have all the pictures in yet, but if you head over to Flickr and do a quick search for SFWIN, then
sort by most recent, you'll get a quick glimpse of the event.
We're looking forward to the next SFWIN get together. We'll definitely be attending.
As reported in our Altassian Blog, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar were recently featured
on Business Sunday to discuss the company's origins, today's performance, and the future.
If that doesn't give you the incentive to get up to go to work next week, nothing will.
You can watch the five-minute video clip by visiting our Altassian Blog. It's a great insight
into our corporate culture along with some feedback from one of our Australian customers.
Atlassian is hosting the SF Web Innovators Network at our San Francisco office on Tuesday, July 25 at 6pm.
SFWIN is a group in the SF Bay Area technology industry who are getting together once a month in San Francisco for drinks, conversation
and to get to know one another.
Whether you're in a startup, or an established company, if you're working on the cutting-edge we hope you'll join us. Many people have found jobs, met business partners, found customers, and made new friends and contacts at the SFWIN events. We hope to see you there!
If you are in the SF Bay Area next week, we'd enjoy seeing you at the SFWIN event. You can sign up at the SFWIN site.
Another announcement made on our Atlassian Blog and it was released on the newswire today: Atlassian European Reseller, Pix Software GmbH, Cross Important Milestone.
Pix Software Systems, our largest Atlassian European reseller, reported to us that they had reached a major milestone by selling over 150 Atlassian licenses of JIRA and Confluence. We're very excited about their progress. Pix Software was one of Atlassian's first partners, they're based in Germany and offer a variety of services and consultancy for Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing.
You can read the entire press release here.
Great job to Arne and his team!
Two articles on the BusinessWeek web site caught my attention this week, both articles revolve around the impact of "Web 2.0" in the enterprise and both talk about wikis. What I find interesting about the articles is their sources; one from once Oracle president and now VC guru Ray Lane, and the other from "Silicon Valley". I love the fact Ray Lane is talking so smartly about wikis and that wikis are increasingly being talked about in corporate settings.
I'm including the links and an overview of both articles below.
- Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning- Silicon Valley loves its buzzwords, and there's none more popular today than Web 2.0. Unless you're a diehard techie, though, good luck figuring out what it means. Web 2.0 technologies bear strange names like wikis, blogs, RSS, AJAX, and mashups. And the startups hawking them – Renkoo, Gahbunga, Ning, Squidoo – sound like Star Wars characters George Lucas left on the cutting-room floor.
- A VC's View of Web 2.0 - If Web 2.0 points to the future of information technology inside corporations, as some people believe, Ray Lane is in a good position to know what that future will look like. Until he joined the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a general partner in 2000, he was president and chief operating officer at software giant Oracle for eight years. Now he's nurturing companies at the opposite end of the spectrum, among them small startups such as Visible Path and SpikeSource that are providing software as a service over the Internet.
We announced this on our Atlassian Blog and it was released on the newswire today: Atlassian was named as an SD Times 100 award winner in the Software Configuration Management and Change Management category.
As noted in the article, Atlassian was named by BRW Magazine as the fastest growing software company in Australia, and Deloitte recognized Atlassian in their annual roundup of fastest growing companies in Asia Pacific. Atlassian continues to grow quickly:
- Over 3,000 customers use Atlassian JIRA, the professional issue tracker and over 1,300 organisations use Atlassian Confluence, the enterprise wiki, for collaboration and knowledge management
- Atlassian's products are used in more than 60 countries
- In addition, Atlassian has donated more than 800 free open source and non-profit software licenses
- Nearly 200 plugins are now available for JIRA and Confluence thanks to the active Developer Network
- Atlassian has offices in Sydney and San Francisco
We announced this on our Atlassian Blog, but I thought it was particularly relevant for our Partners so I'm re-gifting here. Without borrowing too much from Laurel's post, we're absolutely thilled that Imahima, our exclusive distributor in Japan, has fully translated the latest Confluence release (2.2) into Japanese. It really is a monumental achievement.
Great work guys!
The annoucement on the Atlassian Blog has some informative links and a contact point for Imahima.
One of the things I enjoy most is talking with our Partners and getting their thoughts on how we can better the Partner program. I had a great conversation with one of our Partners yesterday and we exchanged some really cool ideas...
- Conference Collaboration - Wouldn't it be cool if you were exhibiting at a conference relevant to JIRA or Confluence and a member of the Atlassian team was there in a show of support? We batted this idea back and forth and it seems that it might be an idea worth following, especially as it relates to demoing our products and showing the ease of integration with your solutions.
- Sales Support - The idea here is that myself or another outstanding member of the Atlassian team would act as either a silent or active member in a sales call to targeted potential clients of yours. We would be there to answer any questions directly related to JIRA or Confluence, but it would likely reassure the client that our Partner relationship is real, giving them an added level of comfort.
Just a few thoughts after another great Partner conversation.
Atlassian announces the latest release of the award winning issue-tracking platform - JIRA 3.6.2 - available in Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions. This release includes over 40 bug fixes and improvements. Read more in the release notes.