Atlassian introduces JIRA 2.5 - vast enhancements to its issue management application

(PRWEB) November 13, 2003

SYDNEY, Australia (PRWEB) 12th November 2003 – Atlassian Software Systems, the small and innovative Australian software company providing enterprise software solutions to the world’s leading organisations, today released JIRA 2.5, the latest version of its flagship web-based, issue tracking and project management application.

JIRA 2.5 extends ease of use with greater convenience, logic and efficiency across the application with an array of customer driven improvements. These include the ability to internationalise the product into new languages, customise field management, edit issues in bulk and group projects into specific categories.

Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian Director said, “This is biggest release of JIRA to date and feedback in beta testing has been extremely positive. One key priority for us is providing legendary service to our customers. Out of this comes an ongoing dialog with our community about changes and enhancements they want to see in the product. This new JIRA release is as customer driven as ever.

“Averaging around six new releases of JIRA every year, we fervently believe in up front, fair and liberal licensing for our software. As always, all commercial licenses include the full source and 12 months of free upgrades, so a license is essentially future-proof.”

New features summary

JIRA Professional

•     Internationalised interface - translate JIRA into any language, and have users choose which language they wish to see JIRA in.
•     Greatly improved field management - hide or show individual fields, control which fields are editable, reorder all the fields, edit the descriptions of all fields, make certain fields required. (Extra functionality in the Enterprise version).
•     Bulk editing - edit the components, fix version, assignee, and priority as well as set the values of all custom fields across any subset of issues from a given filter.
•     Customisable columns in the issue navigator - global defaults, and a per user preference.
•     Developer workload report - the new report shows details on a developer's current workload in workdays, broken down by project.

JIRA Enterprise

•     All features in the Professional version.
•     Field layout schemes - create different field layout schemes (field order, descriptions, required fields, hidden fields and editable fields). Apply to one or more projects, use across different departments.
•     Project Categories - projects can be grouped in categories. The Dashboard can be configured to display projects that belong to certain project categories.
•     Component leads - each component can now be assigned a lead. The default assignee for new issues can also be configured per component.

Availability and Pricing

JIRA 2.5 is available now via Atlassian’s web site. The JIRA Professional commercial license is $USD1,000. The JIRA Enterprise commercial license is $USD4,000. Professional and Enterprise licences are for the deployment of JIRA in a commercial environment on one server. Both licences include unlimited projects, users and issues plus free upgrades and support for 12 months. JIRA currently averages six releases annually.

For more information on pricing and licensing, or to download a demo version, visit http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/default.jsp?clicked=prweb25

About Atlassian

Atlassian is a small and innovative Australian software company providing enterprise software solutions to the world’s leading organisations. Our mission is to build a different kind of software company - one that listens to client needs, values innovation in development and solves customer problems with brilliant simplicity. Atlassian’s commitment to legendary service provides consistent, high quality support for all our customers.

Atlassian has hundreds of customers around the globe - across Fortune 1000, public enterprise, science and technology sectors. From Macquarie Bank and JP Morgan to Boeing and Sony. From Cochlear and Pfizer through to Cisco, NASA and the US Supreme Court, these organisations all use the flagship Atlassian product JIRA - the future of issue management.

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For further details or to arrange an interview, please contact:

Mike Cannon-Brookes

Director

ATLASSIAN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS PTY LTD

Ph: (61 2) 9261 0904

Mob: (61) (0) 416 106 090

E: mike@atlassian.com

http://www.atlassian.com