Confluence (software)

Atlassian Confluence

Developer(s)	Atlassian
Initial release	25 March 2004
Stable release	4.0 / September 15, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-09-15)
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish [1]
Type	Wiki
License	Proprietary
Website	http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/

Confluence is an enterprise wiki software. Written in Java and mainly used in corporate environments, Confluence is developed and marketed by Atlassian. Confluence is sold as either on-premises software or as a hosted solution. Its license is proprietary, but a zero-cost license program is available for non-profit organizations and open source projects.^[2]

Confluence is used by over 10,700 organizations in more than 108 countries. Notable customers include Adobe Systems, Bloomberg LP, Cisco Systems, IBM, Johns Hopkins University, SAP AG, Sun Microsystems, United Nations and Weill Cornell Medical College.^[3]

History

Confluence 1.0 was released on March 25, 2004. The stated purpose of Confluence 1.0 was "to build an application that was built to the requirements of an enterprise knowledge management system, without losing the essential, powerful simplicity of the wiki in the process." ^[4]

In recent versions, Confluence has evolved into part of an integrated collaboration platform.^[5] Confluence has been adapted to work in conjunction with other Atlassian software products: JIRA, FishEye, Clover, Crucible, Bamboo and Crowd.^[6]

Features

Atlassian states that the main features and use cases of Confluence are as follows:^[7]

• Serving as an intranet
• Documentation platform to publish, organise, search and maintain documents
• As a knowledge management tool create, share, comment and edit content
• It integrates with SharePoint and Microsoft Office documents are searchable, viewable and editable
• Confluence is extensible, with over 400 plugins available

Awards

In 2008 ReadWriteWeb named Confluence as one of the "Top 10 Enterprise Web Products of 2008".^[8]

See also

Java portal

• Atlassian Seraph
• Comparison of wiki software
• List of applications with iCalendar support
• List of content management systems
• List of wiki software

References

1. ^ "Language Pack Translations". Atlassian Documentation. Confluence User Community. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Language+Pack+Translations/. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
2. ^ Atlassian. "Licensing and Pricing". Atlassian.com. http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/licensing.jsp#nonprofit. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
3. ^ Atlassian. "10,700 Customers and Counting". Atlassian.com. http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/customers.jsp. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
4. ^ "Atlassian releases new wiki: Confluence 1.0". Theserverside.com. http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=24701. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
5. ^ "Wiki tools are not all the same". KMWorld.com. 2009-10-28. http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/PrintArticle.aspx?ArticleID=57533. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
6. ^ Atlassian. "Technical Writing & Documentation Software". Atlassian.com. http://www.atlassian.com/better-together/project_documentation.jsp. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
7. ^ Atlassian. "Enterprise Collaboration and Wiki Software". Atlassian.com. http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
8. ^ Lunn, Bernard (2008-12-16). "Top 10 Enterprise Web Products of 2008". Readwriteweb.com. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_enterprise_web_products_2008.php. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 

External links

• Official website