AccuRev and Atlassian Announce Partnership

Lexington, MA, March 14, 2006 – AccuRev Inc. and Atlassian Software Systems today announced a strategic partnership. Terms of the partnership include joint integration, sales and support for AccuRev's best-of-breed software configuration management (SCM) solution and JIRA, the professional issue tracking and project management software application used by over 2,700 organizations in more than 55 countries.

AccuRev integrates with JIRA out-of-the-box utilizing its AccuBridge™ SDK. Together, organizations can utilize JIRA to quickly leverage the power of AccuRev's process change management and change package capabilities. With this integration, customers are able to leverage their existing investment in JIRA to significantly streamline development, increase agility, and improve team collaboration enterprise-wide. Organizations utilizing AccuRev with JIRA are achieving shorter development cycles and improved IT efficiency at a lower total cost of ownership throughout the application lifecycle.

"We use both JIRA and AccuRev in an agile and parallel development environment (Scrum)," says Leo Zancani, Head of Engineering at Zynap. "We have found that both these products have the flexibility to support the very high-change environment we operate in and enhance the overall agility of our development teams."

"In response to customer demand, AccuRev has developed integration with JIRA in order to provide an out-of-the box solution. Our customers have told us they need to have access and control of information and assets in a timely and secure manner, and AccuRev and JIRA together provid e our customers another choice to address this critical business requirement," says Cliff Utstein, vice president of marketing and business development, AccuRev, Inc.

"We're pleased to partner with AccuRev to offer a seamless experience of our two products," said Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder at Atlassian. "AccuRev and JIRA together provide a powerful application for managing all the issues that arise during development and the complete project lifecycle. For customers in distributed development environments, this is an ideal application for improving collaboration and processes."

Integration highlights and benefits:

• Robust bi-directional integration allows developers to work in their issue tracking tool of choice.
• AccuRev integrated with JIRA allows complete traceability of all development work to improve productivity and significantly aid compliance initiatives and IT audit-ability within an organization.
• Ability to send updates from JIRA to AccuWork™, AccuRev's integrated issue tracking solution, with no loss of data.

Availability

AccuBridge for JIRA is available directly from AccuRev. For pricing and sales information, please contact your AccuRev sales representative at 1-800-383-8170 (US and Canada) or

1-781-861-8700 (Outside North America).

About Atlassian

Atlassian Software Systems is an innovative Australian software company providing enterprise software solutions to the world's leading organizations. Recently recognized as Australia's fastest-growing software company by both BRW Magazine and Deloitte, Atlassian has over 3200 customers in 55 countries, and has offices in Sydney and San Francisco. Atlassian JIRA, professional issue tracking and project management software, and Atlassian Confluence, enterprise wiki software, enable knowledge workers to better collaborate, share knowledge, and improve decision making. Atlassian's 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 their customers. For more information on Atlassian please visit:  http://www.atlassian.com.

About AccuRev, Inc.

AccuRev provides process change management for geographically distributed software development.  AccuRev's award-winning software configuration management (SCM) solution easily and efficiently manages change within complex development projects. Control parallel development across multiple products, projects, releases and time zones with dynamic process flexibility. The AccuRev stream-based architecture provides an agile, powerful, and TimeSafe® foundation to secure critical business applications and software assets.  AccuRev's best-of-breed approach and out-of-the box integration with third-party tools provide an optimal application lifecycle management solution. AccuRev's process change management products are used by a growing number of global enterprises, including American Airlines, Citibank, Polycom, Sony Computer Entertainment, Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin. AccuRev, Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts and is privately held. More information about AccuRev can be found at http://www.accurev.com, or by calling 1-800-383-8170 (US and Canada) and 1- 781-861-8700 (Outside North America).

Copyright © 2006 AccuRev, Inc. AccuRev, AccuBridge, AccuWork and TimeSafe are trademarks or registered trademarks of AccuRev, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this release are the property of their respective owners.