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Appfire's premier software integration and customization services leverage reliable enterprise technologies, offered by the most trusted names in online collaboration. These names include our partners Atlassian, Jive, Dell and more. Featured technology solutions leveraged by Appfire include:
Atlassian Confluence
http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
Confluence is widely referred to as the industry standard enterprise wiki. Enterprise wikis make it easy for your team to collaborate, share and archive knowledge. In recent years, wikis like Confluence have become popular as:
- Repositories of wisdom
- Massive online encyclopedias
- E-learning resources
- Tools of savvy businesses, looking for a simple but effective way to share content and information both internally and externally.
What makes Confluence such a great wiki? From top to bottom, Confluence was designed for enterprise use. With its fine-grained permissioning capabilities, you control who can view, create, edit, comment, or upload attachments within work spaces and pages. This keeps confidential information private. Confluence is intuitive, making it possible for everyone within your company to use it without any special programming language.
Also as web-based software, Confluence runs on just about every application server and database and is also offered as a turnkey solution within the Fireball Collaboration Appliance. It's extremely flexible. You can customize the layout (look and feel), page and site structure, and permissioning. Confluence scales from a single user to tens of thousands of users. It provides full web service interfaces (SOAP and XML-RPC) for your applications or scripts to remotely update content, manage users, or administer individual spaces.
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Atlassian JIRA
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
JIRA is a highly customizable bug tracking, issue tracking and project management solution that has rapidly become a market leader in the application lifecycle management (ALM) space. JIRA's ease of use, ease of deployment, and full feature set have quickly garnered it more than 6000 customers worldwide, including many of the Global Fortune 1000. JIRA provides:
- A solution to fluidly manage bugs, new features, tasks, improvements or any other type of lifecycle requirement
- A clean and powerful user interface that is easy to understand for both business and technical users
- The ability to map your business processes to custom workflows
- The ability to track attachments, changes, components, versions and 'screen-shots'
- Full text searching and powerful filtering (customizable, saveable, shareable and subscribeable)
- Customizable dashboards and real-time statistics
- Enterprise permissioning and security
- The ability to easily extended to and integrated with other systems (including email, RSS, Excel, XML and source control)
- Highly configurable notification options
- The flexibility to run on almost any hardware, OS and database platform
- Web services (SOAP, XML-RPC and REST interfaces) empowering detailed programmatic control
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Atlassian Crowd
http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/
Crowd is a web-based single sign-on (SSO) utility that simplifies application provisioning and identity management. Administrators can manage authentication and authorization for as many users, web applications and directory servers as needed - all through a single, intuitive interface. Crowd is the perfect solution to:
- Provide users the convenience of single sign-on
- Manage any number of users, logins and passwords
- Centralize user management for other enterprise applications such as Confluence, JIRA and more
- Connect to multiple LDAP servers, such as Microsoft Active Directory
- Integrate or import legacy user repositories
- Control access to individual applications for every user and group
- Fluidly connect enterprise applications such as Confluence, JIRA and more to other custom or proprietary applications
Appfire actively participated in the first alpha and beta releases of the Crowd product. Soon after, Appfire had the pleasure of implementing the first public production deployment of Crowd v1.0 for one of our clients by integrating the utility with Confluence, Jive, Salesforce.com, and a custom suite of web-based utilities developed by our engineers.
Atlassian has recognized Appfire's accomplishments with their Crowd product by featuring a quote from Appfire's CTO in multiple prominent locations within the Crowd product website. Appfire was also recently selected to be featured within Atlassian's first public Crowd case study.
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Atlassian Bamboo
http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/
Smarter feedback, better code! Today's development teams are adopting continuous integration to increase productivity and improve code quality. By automatically compiling and testing code as it changes, Bamboo provides instant feedback for developers and allows quick collaboration.
- Despite being a widely accepted best practice, many teams struggle to adopt a continuous integration process due to the perceived cost of setting up and maintaining such an environment. With Bamboo, setting up your continuous integration process is simple. The installer auto-detects your development environment enabling you to start a build within minutes.
- Bamboo's two-way notifications and intuitive web-interface provide developers with the necessary information and simple navigation to interact with each build as well as manage the entire continuous integration process.
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Atlassian FishEye
http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/
FishEye opens your source code repository and helps development teams keep tabs on what's going on. Track code changes, stay notified of commits via RSS, and search through the guts of your Subversion, CVS or Perforce repository - all from the comfort of the Web.
- FishEye gives your source code repository a simple Web interface. Developers can use FishEye to browse directly to a file or directory, traverse deep directory hierarchies quickly, and see visualizations of a branch history for an individual file.
- FishEye also gives you a simple way to report on activity in your Subversion, CVS or Perforce repository, turning your messy source code repository into a beautiful dashboard of meaningful charts and graphs. Use these to report on the activity of teams, the status of projects, and the detail of what's changed.
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Atlassian Clover
http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/
Improving test coverage with Clover throughout your development cycle is the key to finding bugs early and raising the quality of your code. Clover is the essential Java code coverage tool with test level insight, instant IDE feedback, interactive reports and now Test Optimization.
- Tired of waiting for all your tests to run every time you make the smallest of changes to your code? With Test Optimization, Clover automatically prioritises just the tests you need to run to cover the particular changes you made. Quicker and more frequent builds give you more confidence in your commits.
- Not sure where to start? Let Clover show you the way. Developing higher quality code is not just about increasing your test coverage percentage, but testing the things that matter most. Clover tracks cyclomatic complexity and per-test coverage data to help you identify your biggest project risks and focus your testing where it's needed most.
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Atlassian Crucible
http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/
Crucible is a code review tool that allows teams to review, edit, comment and record outcomes. Peer code review is an important component of successful agile development, but many teams find the process painful to implement. Crucible is the solution.
- Making it easy for every developer to engage with the code review process is key to implementing the practice. With one-click creation of reviews, teams quickly realise the value of the practice without worrying about the process. Participation in reviews is equally simple; just select a few lines and starting typing.
- Anything that disrupts the flow of development is perceived as a burden. And code reviews are no exception. Crucible allows developers to start a review directly from their IDE, any commit in FishEye, or any issue in JIRA, as well as the simple web UI. Email, RSS, and IM notifications relay instant feedback to developers who never have to leave their IDE to view or act upon any code review comments.
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Gliffy Diagrams - Plugin for Confluence/JIRA
http://www.gliffy.com/
Thousands of Atlassian customers are easily creating and collaborating with diagrams using the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence and JIRA. With the Plugin installed, just click the Add Diagram link to create countless types of diagrams. Creating diagrams is simple with Gliffy. Just drag-and-drop shapes from an extensive library and point-and-click your way to format, just like in the office software you are familiar with. No expertise needed.
NEW: The Gliffy Diagram Plugin is now available for pre-installation within the Fireball Collaboration Appliance.
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Balsamiq Mockups - Plugin for Confluence/JIRA
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/
Balsamiq Mockups comes with a vast library of pre-built User Interface design components, so that you don't have to spend time building them yourself. A browser window? Of course! A video component, an iPhone picker? Add away!
This plugin is by-far the quickest and easiest way to quickly draft UI mockups for software specifications or web page development. Just click on 'Add UI Mockup', edit your mockup, name it and save. The mockup will show up as an image on the page, with an 'edit' link. It's that easy!
NEW: The Balsamiq Mockups Plugin is now available for pre-installation within the Fireball Collaboration Appliance.
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Frevvo Live Forms - Plugin for Confluence
http://www.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/static/plugin_confluence/
Live Forms for Confluence makes it easy for business users to create and deploy forms to Confluence pages, collect data, view submissions, download submissions as Excel spreadsheets etc. - all without ever leaving Confluence. Loads of features and capabilities are available right within Confluence including business rules, complex validation, XML document processing and automatic form generation from XML schema.
NEW: The Frevvo Live Forms Plugin is now available for pre-installation within the Fireball Collaboration Appliance.
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Theme Builder - Plugin for Confluence
http://www.adaptavist.com/display/Builder/
Confluence is an amazing wiki, but people often want to change the way it looks to improve adoption or simply bring it in-line with other online applications and corporate identity. The Theme Builder plugin allows you to add and customise logo banners, menu-driven navigation, style sheets, footers and more. Sites customised with Theme Builder look professional, stand out from the crowd and are easy to use regardless of how much content they contain - effectively turning your wiki in to an agile Content Management System (CMS).
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Salesforce.com Plugin for Confluence or JIRA
http://www.customware.net/.../AtlassianPlugins/
This plugin will allow you to selectively display individual data points within your Confluence or JIRA instance which are stored within your organization's Salesforce.com account (such as names and phone numbers).
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Approvals Workflow - Plugin for Confluence
http://confluence.comalatech.com/
The Approvals Workflow plugin integrates seamlessly with Confluence to provide an innovative way of managing workflows and content approvals, without compromising the open and collaborative philosophy of a wiki. Users can create their own approval checks in their pages, or define more sophisticated workflows for entire spaces to enforce rules and actions.
NEW: The Approvals Workflow Plugin is now available for pre-installation within the Fireball Collaboration Appliance.
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JIRA MultiSite & JIRA Clustering
http://www.wandisco.com/jira/
JIRA MultiSite and JIRA Clustering from WANdisco combine JIRA's flexible and easy to use bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management solution, with WANdisco's active-active replication technology to turn a JIRA central server implementation into a distributed, enterprise ready application lifecycle management solution.
JIRA MultiSite can be implemented standalone, or in conjunction with WANdisco's multi-site solutions for Subversion and CVS to provide a complete, enterprise ready ALM solution, with built-in reliability and scalability, and no single point of failure. With this powerful combination, distributed development teams collaborate at LAN-speed over the WAN, instead of working in isolation. This means that problems are detected and resolved as they occur, so there's less QA and rework. Development cycles are shortened, resulting in major cost savings.
JIRA Clustering supports clustering over a WAN, or a LAN, without any single point of failure. JIRA Clustering also provides failover and self-healing capabilities that automate disaster recovery without any administrator intervention, or dependencies on third party disk mirroring solutions.
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