The annual Confluence & Jira Community Day for the German-speaking area (organised by Communardo Software GmbH) took place last week in the Haus am Domplatz in Frankfurt. Dirk Röhrborn (CEO Communardo) opened with an interesting keynote about agile processes in organisation and pointed out historical and modern implications. Sven Peters then outlined the passion as key and driving force to successfully develop software at Atlassian.

Best practice presentations then gave an insight into the diversity of application possibilities of ConfluenceConfluence is a web-based corporate wiki written in Java and mainly used in corporate environments. It is developed and marketed by Atlassian. Confluence is sold as either on-premises software or as a hosted solution. Its license is proprietary, but a zero-cost license program is available for ... and Jira, from project management via finding suitable suppliers to the implementation of knowledge management projects. The Semantic Web Company presented with PowerTagging for Confluence a brandnew addon for improved label management. The visitors were thrilled with the opportunity to optimize the search in Confluence, using semi-automatic annotationAn annotation is notes that you make to yourself while you are reading information in a book, document, online record, video, software code or other information, "in the margin", or perhaps just underlined or highlighted passages. Annotated bibliographies, give descriptions about how each source ... of wiki pages. In discussions it became clear that the demand for strong enterprise-wide search capabilities increases as companiesA company is a form of business organization. In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise. " Generally, a company may be a "corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock ... have different systems (CMS, DMS, ERP) and content pools in use. The Semantic Web CompanyThe Semantic Web Company (SWC), based in Vienna, provides companies, institutions and organizations with professional services related to the Semantic Web, semantic technologies and Social Software realized Enterprise Search and provides with the thesaurusA thesaurus is a book that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning, in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations. The largest thesaurus in the world is the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which contains more than ...-based approach not only a lightweight, fast knowledge model to be realized, but also comprehensive semantic search capabilities.

An open space for exchanging experiences with Confluence and Jira rounded off the event. Thank you very much at this point to Communardo for organising this great day and see you next year!