The past year was a big one for Confluence — the Office and Widget Connector, major search improvements, updates to the rich text editor — and 2009 is the year Confluence went social. This session explores major innovations in Confluence in the past year and discusses a few to anticipate. Atlassian Speakers: Bill Arconati, Per Fragemann Key Takeaways: * Understand key new capabilities * Discuss direction and strategy with product managers * Highlight: Confluence 3

1. Confluence
State of the Union
Bill Arconati & Per Fragemann, Atlassian

2. Collaboration Track
Today Tomorrow

3. Agenda
• Past
• Present
• Future

4. Itʼs been a while...

5. Itʼs been a while...

6. But the mission remains
the same

7. Over 9,000 customers
7,500+ paying customers in 93 countries
1,500+ non-profit customers
20,000 personal wikis
Wide spectrum of:
• Industries
• Organization Sizes
• Deployment Sizes

8. Over 9,000 customers
7,500+ paying customers in 93 countries
1,500+ non-profit customers
20,000 personal wikis
Wide spectrum of:
• Industries
3 Confluence Deployments
• Organization Sizes
That Will Blow You Away
• Deployment Sizes Tues 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm

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4 Examples to Root Your
Confluence Deployment
Tues 10:00 am
Dozens of Use Cases

10. Hundreds of Developers

11. 10 Must-Have Plugins
Mon 4:45
Hundreds of Developers

12. 10 Must-Have Plugins Building Killer Communities
Mon 4:45 Tues 1:30
Hundreds of Developers

13. Release Momentum
Confluence 2.9 (AUG 2008):
• Office Connector
• SharePoint Connector
Confluence 2.10 (DEC 2008):
• Widget Connector
• Search Improvements
• Quick Navigation

14. Search: From Good to Great

15. Search: From Good to Great

16. 2008: UI & Quick Navigation
Quick Navigation: Real Time Search

17. 2008: UI & Quick Navigation
Quick Navigation: Real Time Search

18. 2008: UI & Quick Navigation
75%
Quick Navigation: Real Time Search

19. 2008: Widget Connector
Connect anything Web 2.0

20. 2008: Widget Connector
Connect anything Web 2.0

21. 2008: Widget Connector
Connect anything Web 2.0

22. 2008: Widget Connector
Connect anything Web 2.0

23. 2008: Widget Connector
Connect anything Web 2.0

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25. Office Connector: Edit in Word

26. Office Connector: Edit in Word

27. Documents at your fingertips

28. Documents at your fingertips

29. DOC,
PPT,
PDF&
XLS
Documents at your fingertips

30. Confluence 3

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Confluence 3

32. Richer Pages, Faster

33. The Macro Browser
Useful
• Task lists
• Charts
• Widgets
• More!
Easy
• Point and Click
• Anyone can do it
Vast
• 80+ bundled macros

37. The Plugin Exchange
Great for Customers
• Hundreds of plugins
• Evaluate
• Rate
Good for Developers
• Get Discovered - 9000 custs
• Customer Feedback
• Earn $$$

38. Discover People

39. Hover Profile
People at the forefront
Learn more anywhere in the app
• Profile Photo
• Current Status
• Personal Space
• Follow
• Email

40. Hover Profile
People at the forefront
Learn more anywhere in the app
• Profile Photo
• Current Status
• Personal Space
• Follow
• Email

41. Hover Profile

42. Hover Profile

43. Richer Profiles
User Activity
• See your recent activity
More Information Fields
• Phone & IM
• Position
• Department
• Location

44. Richer Profiles

45. Richer Profiles

46. Connect With People

47. Build Your Network
Follow people
• Relevant, Important,
Interesting…
View Their Activity
• Pages, Comments,
Blogs, Status Updates
Subscribe
• View in personal profile
or RSS reader

48. Build your network

49. Build your network

50. Share Your Status
Efficient
• Share bits of info without
wiki pages or blogs
Smart
• Supports links and
wiki markup
Integrated
• Displayed alongside your
other activities

51. Share your status

52. Share your status

53. Enhanced Personal
Spaces
New Profile Panel gives
more detail:
• Current Status
• Recent activity
• Network

54. Enhanced Personal Spaces

55. Enhanced Personal Spaces

56. Tons of Improvements

57. Lightning Fast

58. Lightning Fast
50% faster page rendering

59. Lightning Fast
50% faster page rendering
20% higher, more constant throughput

60. Lightning Fast
50% faster page rendering
20% higher, more constant throughput
Better hardware utilization for vertical scaling

61. Lightning Fast
50% faster page rendering
20% higher, more constant throughput
Better hardware utilization for vertical scaling
Improved client-side caching

62. Lightning Fast
50% faster page rendering
20% higher, more constant throughput
Better hardware utilization for vertical scaling
Improved client-side caching
100% faster page rendering in Cluster through
improved horizontal scaling

63. Lightning Fast

64. Lightning Fast
Scaling Confluence
3:45 pm - 4:40 pm

65. PDF Overhaul

66. PDF Overhaul
2x to 3x faster

67. PDF Overhaul
2x to 3x faster
Beautiful and optimized for
PDF and print

68. PDF Overhaul
2x to 3x faster
Beautiful and optimized for
PDF and print
Headers, footers, cover pages, table of content

69. PDF Overhaul
2x to 3x faster
Beautiful and optimized for
PDF and print
Headers, footers, cover pages, table of content
Everything customizable using CSS

70. PDF Overhaul

71. PDF Overhaul

72. PDF Overhaul

73. PDF Overhaul

74. Header
PDF Overhaul
Fonts
Table Style

75. Better and focused page comparisons

76. Better and focused page comparisons

77. ... and email notifications!

78. Vastly improved table editing

79. Vastly improved table editing

80. New Pricing,
New Names

81. New Pricing

82. Future Directions

83. Integration & OpenSocial
Gadgets
• Expose Confluence content
• Include other content into Confluence
Dashboards
• Configurable Dashboard
• Import gadgets from other systems
Intro to OpenSocial
Mon 3.45

84. Better! Faster! Easier!

85. Better! Faster! Easier!
REST API
Performance
Powertools Plugin system
Page Ordering Cluster storage model Space selector
Rich Text Editor
Supportability AJAX
Status replies Quality
Linking dialog Security
Extended profiles I18N Availability
Clustering Media dialog Usage statistics
Editor dialogs
Usability
UI sexiness Macrobrowser
Supercharge

86. Better! Faster! Easier!
REST API
Performance
Powertools Plugin system
Page Ordering Cluster storage model Space selector
Rich Text Editor
Supportability AJAX
Status replies Quality
Linking dialog
Innovation
Extended profiles I18N
Security
Availability
Clustering Media dialog Usage statistics
Editor dialogs
Usability
UI sexiness Macrobrowser
Supercharge

87. From the labs:
“Based on 3.0”
Shipping soon at
http://plugins.atlassian.com