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Atlassian, Inc. is an Australian enterprise software company that develops products geared towards software developers and project managers. It is best known for its issue tracking application, JIRA, and its team collaboration product, Confluence. Atlassian serves over 25,000 customers globally, and its clients include Audi, NASA, Twitter, and Cisco.

Atlassian is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. It also has offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Gdańsk, Poland. As of May 2013, the company has over 600 employees.

History
Atlassian was founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. The pair met while studying at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. They bootstrapped the company for several years, financing the startup with a $10,000 credit card debt. In July 2010, Atlassian raised $60 million in venture capital from Accel Partners. In March 2011, the company raised another $1 million for the charity Room to Read from sales of its $10 “Starter” licenses.

In 2006, Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar were named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurs of the Year. The two also maintain a 100% GlassDoor rating.

Revenue Model
Atlassian does not have a traditional sales team. Instead, it lists all prices, information about products, documentation, support requests, and training materials on its website. The company does not offer discounts, with the exception of academic and charity organizations. All products are available as hosted or installed versions, starting at $10 for 10 licenses. In 2011, Atlassian announced bookings of $102 million, up 35% from the year before.

Products and Services
Atlassian provides developers and project managers with hosted or installed software falling into six categories: Project and Issue Tracking Software, Collaboration and Content Sharing, DVCS Solutions, Code Quality, AddOns, and Training Products.

Atlassian’s flagship product is JIRA, a project and issue tracker, which was released in 2002. The following year it released Confluence, a team collaboration platform that lets users work together on projects, co-create content, and share documents and other media assets.

In 2010, Atlassian acquired Bitbucket, a hosted service for code collaboration. In May 2012, the company launched a Marketplace website where customers can download plug-ins for various Atlassian products. That year, Atlassian also released Stash, a Git repository for enterprises.

Additional products include Crucible, FishEye, Bamboo, and Clover, which are targeted at programmers working with a code base. FishEye, Crucible and Clover were added to Atlassian's portfolio through the acquisition of another Australian software company, Cenqua in 2007. In 2012, Atlassian acquired HipChat, an instant messenger for workplace environments.

Motivation
Atlassian also began a now-popular tradition at software companies where software developers can spend 24 hours tackling any problem they like. Atlassian calls these ShipIt Days, though for years they were known as FedEx Days until FedEx asked for its name to be disassociated with the process.

Author Daniel Pink devoted a chapter to Atlassian's FedEx Days in his bestselling business motivation book, Drive, and the concept has been adopted elsewhere, Pink noted.

Awards and Recognition

 * Company Awards
 * Annual Computerworld Honors Program Names 2012 Laureates
 * Best Places to Work finalists revealed
 * Atlassian Wins Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award
 * Technology Pioneers