Atlassian Partners with EditGrid to Expand Features of Hosted Wiki

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EditGrid, the popular online spreadsheet, is now available to customers that use the hosted versions of Confluence, the enterprise wiki from Atlassian.

The EditGrid Plugin for Confluence allows for real-time collaboration of spreadsheets within Confluence Hosted or Confluence Enterprise Hosting. With EditGrid, users can create or insert spreadsheets into Confluence pages. They can also edit the spreadsheet collaboratively. The resulting spreadsheet is saved as an attachment within the Confluence pages in Microsoft Excel format, allowing Confluence to manage the revision history.

"Many-a jaw dropped when we saw the elegant plugin that EditGrid had created for Confluence. Hosted customers will be able to create a spreadsheet as easily as they can create any other wiki page. With EditGrid, they will get the best spreadsheet features in the business -- and it's totally free," notes Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and CEO of Atlassian.

Some of the features of the EditGrid plugin include:

• Real-time updates: allows multiple users to see dynamic changes to a spreadsheet.
• Industry leading features: more than 500 functions, the greatest of any online spreadsheet.
• Remote data update: retrieves live financial data on the Web and stores it in a spreadsheet
• Import and export: accepts common file formats such as Microsoft Excel, CSV, HTML, Gnumeric, Lotus, OpenOffice and assigns fine-grained access control.
• Live Chat: enables multiple users to discuss changes from within EditGrid, no need to switch to another chat application.

"We are pleased to be working with Atlassian to provide its customers with the most robust online spreadsheet available," said David Lee, Chairman of Team and Concepts, developer of EditGrid. "This is a perfect partnership as EditGrid and Confluence are highly complementary products."

Over 50,000 individual and enterprise users from 50 different countries use EditGrid, making it the world's second most popular online spreadsheet after Google Spreadsheets.

Confluence Hosted and Confluence Enterprise Hosting customers include The Wall Street Journal, Nintendo of America, Accenture and Illinois Wesleyan University. EditGrid is free for Confluence Hosted and Confluence Enterprise Hosting customers, and it is available starting today. For more information please visit, http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/?s_kwcid=hostedPRJan08.

About EditGrid

EditGrid is a leading online spreadsheet technology developed and provided by Team and Concepts (TnC). EditGrid's agile architecture and rich API layer enables it to be successfully partnered with several software applications and services that require a user-friendly data manipulation interface. EditGrid has successfully integrated with salesforce.com, Infoteria's OnSheet, Central Desktop and ThinkFree Online Office. Offered on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis on editgrid.com, EditGrid is also available in licensed packages for installation behind the corporate firewall. For more information, please visit www.editgrid.com.

About Atlassian

Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Its products include Confluence, widely recognized as the most advanced enterprise wiki, and JIRA, one of the world's most popular issue trackers for IT project management. Confluence Hosted was launched in March 2007 and allows users to create a wiki in minutes and grow it as needed without dedicated IT resources. Confluence Enterprise Hosted was unveiled in October 2007 and provides organizations with the full functionality of a dedicated instance of Confluence. Atlassian currently has more than 9,000 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations. For more information, please visit www.atlassian.com.