Atlassian

Atlassian Corporation Plc (/ətˈlæsiən/) is an Australian software company that develops products for software developers and project managers.

Atlassian Corporation Plc
TypePublic
IndustrySoftware
Founded2002 (2002)
Sydney, Australia
FoundersMike Cannon-Brookes
Scott Farquhar
Headquarters
Sydney
,
Australia
Key people
Mike Cannon-Brookes
Scott Farquhar (Co-Founders & CEOs)
Products
Revenue$1.61 billion (July 2020)[1]
Number of employees
4,907 (July 2020)[2]
Websiteatlassian.com

History

Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar founded Atlassian in 2002.[3][4] The pair met while studying at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.[5] They bootstrapped the company for several years, financing the startup with a $10,000 credit card debt.[6]

The name is an ad hoc derivation from the titan Atlas in Greek mythology who had been punished to hold up the Heavens after the Greek gods had overthrown the Titans. (The usual form of the word is Atlantean.) The derivation was reflected in the company's logo used from 2011 through to the 2017 re-branding through a blue X-shaped figure holding up what is shown to be the bottom of the sky.[7]

Atlassian released its flagship product, Jira – a project and issue tracker, in 2002.[8] In 2004, it released Confluence, a team collaboration platform that lets users work together on projects, co-create content, and share documents and other media assets.[9]

In July 2010, Atlassian raised $60 million in venture capital from Accel Partners.[10]

In June 2011, Atlassian announced revenue of $102 million, up 35% from the year before.[11]

In August 2011, Jay Simons became president, while Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar kept their positions as "co-chief executive".[12] For the June 2014 fiscal year, Atlassian reported $215 million in revenue, up from $144 million in 2013.[13]

In a 2014 restructuring, the parent company became Atlassian Corporation PLC of the UK, with a registered address in London—though the actual headquarters remained in Sydney.[14]

Atlassian has nine offices in six countries: Amsterdam, Austin, New York, San Francisco and Mountain View, California,[15] Manila, Yokohama, Bangalore, and Sydney.

The group has over 3,000 employees serving more than 130,000 customers and millions of users.[2][4][16]

In November 2015, Atlassian announced sales of $320 million,[17] and Shona Brown was added to its board.[12] On 10 December 2015 Atlassian made its initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ stock exchange,[18] under the symbol TEAM, putting the market capitalisation of Atlassian at $4.37 billion.[19] The IPO made its founders Farquhar and Cannon-Brookes Australia's first tech startup billionaires and household names in their native country, despite Atlassian being called a "very boring software company" in The New York Times for its focus development and management software.[3][20][21]

In March 2019, Atlassian's value was US$26.6 billion.[22] Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar own approximately 30 percent each.

In October 2020, Atlassian announced the end of support for their "Server" products[23] with sales ending in February 2021 and support ending in February 2024 in order to focus on "Cloud" and "Data Center" editions.

Sales setup

Atlassian does not have a traditional sales team, relying instead on its website[24] and its partner channel.[25][26]

Acquisitions and product announcements

Additional products include Crucible, FishEye, Bamboo, and Clover which target programmers working with a code base. FishEye, Crucible and Clover came into Atlassian's portfolio through the acquisition of another Australian software company, Cenqua, in 2007.[27]

In 2009 Atlassian announced the acquisition of GreenHopper for Jira from Pyxis Technologies.[28] GreenHopper was rebranded to Jira Agile in 2013 as an agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology,with scrum and kanban pre-packaged.[29]

In 2010, Atlassian acquired Bitbucket, a hosted service for code collaboration.[30] In 2011 Atlassian acquired Souretree, which is available freely to this day as a free git GUI tool.[31]

In 2011 Atlassian announced the release of Bonfire for Jira.[32] In 2013 Atlassian rebranded Bonfire as Jira capture, subsequently in 2017 Zephyr acquired Capture for Jira.[33] Also, in 2011 Atlassian introduced Team Calendars as a new add-on to Atlassian Confluence to help product and project teams stay in sync. [34] In 2013 they rebranded Team Calendars as Confluence Team Calendars.

In 2012, Atlassian acquired HipChat, an instant messenger for workplace environments. Then in May 2012, Atlassian Marketplace was introduced as a website where customers can download plug-ins for various Atlassian products.[35][36][37] That same year Atlassian also released Stash, a Git repository for enterprises, later renamed Bitbucket Server.[38] Also, Doug Burgum became chairman of its board of directors in July 2012.[39]

In 2013, Atlassian announced a Jira service desk product with full service-level agreement support.[40]

Sourcetree
Developer(s)Atlassian
Stable release
4.0 (Mac) / 3.2.6 (Windows)
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.atlassian.com 

In 2015 it announced its acquisition of work chat company Hall, with the intention of migrating all of Hall's customers across to its own chat product HipChat.[41]

A small startup called Dogwood Labs in Denver, Colorado which had a product called StatusPage (that hosts pages updating customers during outages and maintenance) was acquired in July 2016.[42][43]

In January 2017 Atlassian announced the purchase of Trello for $425 million.[44]

On 7 September 2017 the company launched Stride, a web chat alternative to Slack.[45][46] Less than a year later, on 26 July 2018, Atlassian announced it was going to exit the chat business, that it had sold the intellectual property for HipChat and Stride to competitor Slack, and that it was going to shut down HipChat and Stride in 2019. As part of the deal, Atlassian took a small stake in Slack.[47]

On 4 September 2018 the company acquired OpsGenie (a tool that generates alerts for helpdesk tickets) for $295 million.[48]

On 18 March 2019, the company announced that it had acquired Agilecraft for $166 million.[49] On 25 April 2019, AgileCraft was rebranded as Jira Align.[50]

On 17 October 2019, Atlassian completed acquisition of Code Barrel, makers of "Automation for Jira", available on Jira Marketplace.[51]

On 12 May 2020, Atlassian acquired Halp (a tool that generates helpdesk tickets from Slack conversations[52]) for an undisclosed amount.[53]

On 30 July 2020, Atlassian announced acquisition of Asset Management company - Mindville to add to the power of its ITSM tool-set for an undisclosed amount.[54]

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