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12th January, 2023 Karina Stratton, Sales Administration, Team Leader Atlassian recently announced price changes for some of their Server and Data Center products, effective 15 February 2023. As this date is fast approaching, we h...

Atlassian recently announced price changes for some of their Cloud products, effective 18th October 2022. As this date is fast approaching, we have identified a list of questions and answers that will assist you i...

Prices are changing for selected GLiNTECH Marketplace Apps Thursday, 1st September 2022 We're reaching out to let you know about upcoming price changes for selected GLiNTECH apps which will take into effect on the 1st of September, 2022. ...

Retirement for 5 GLiNTECH Atlassian Marketplace Apps Monday, 31st October 2022 As we prioritise our internal development efforts here at GLiNTECH, we have decided to retire several of our Atlassian Marketplace Apps. These...

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE FEWER THAN 600 DAYS LEFT UNTIL END-OF-SUPPORT FOR ATLASSIAN SERVER APPS?
If you are about to embark on your Cloud Migration journey, the first step is to assess your requirements, espe...

Atlassian announced today that GLiNTECH has received Atlassian Partner of the Year 2021: Cloud Migration Services for their outstanding contribution and achievements during the calendar year 2021. This includes excepti...

Getting Jira users to agree to terms and conditions efficiently and without unnecessary delay is crucial in getting your teams to work as quickly as possible. GLiNTECH’s Atlassian Marketplace app, Terms and Condition...

Atlassian recently announced licensing & price changes for some of their Server and Data Center customers, effective 15th February 2022. As this date is fast approaching, we have identified a list of questions and answers that will assi...

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The holidays, as the saying goes, are a time for giving. And at GLiNTECH, that’s not an empty cliche - it’s a heartfelt vow that we take very seriously. Throughout our 21 years, we have prided ourselves on our community work and our com...

As we move to the cloud, keeping our online content secure has never been so important. As one of only 3 certified Cloud Specialized Atlassian Partners, the experts here at GLiNTECH have put our dev hats on and created a tool to help you fi...

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In great news for local customers, Atlassian recently announced that data residency is now available in Australia. The move follows on from an announcement that data residency is now also available for customers on St...

We've compiled some of Atlassian's best Cloud resources to help guide you on your migration journey. Ensure you have the very latest information to get it right first time – chat to the Atlassian Cloud Specialised GLiN...

Communicating and getting users to understand your terms and conditions in an efficient and hassle-free way to getting your users to work as quickly as possible. GLiNTECH's Atlassian Marketplace app, Terms and Con...

A critical security vulnerability for Jira Service Management and Insight Asset Management (Remote Code Execution vulnerability) has just been released Summary of Vulnerability This advisory discloses a critical severity se...

GLiNTECH has been awarded a coveted Atlassian Specialised Partner in Cloud - one of only three companies worldwide to meet the strict requirements set by Atlassian for the program it launched in May this year. The ...

Atlassian announced a price increase for some of their Cloud products, effective 12th October 2021. This price update is reflective of Atlassian's continued investment in their Cloud products so that your teams ...

Our development team at GLiNTECH is always working to respond to customer requests and that’s good news for Confluence Data Center users this month, with two new DC versions of apps released on Atlassian Ma...

Atlassian has released a security vulnerability notice that affects Confluence Server & Confluence Data Center products. If you use these products, see below for steps to address this vulnerability...

Our development team at GLiNTECH is always working to respond to customer requests and that’s good news for Confluence Cloud users this month, with two new apps released on Atlassian Marketplace. Better Blogs for Conf...

Getting Confluence users to agree to terms and conditions efficiently and without unnecessary delay is crucial in getting your teams to work as quickly as possible. GLiNTECH’s Atlassian Marketplace app, Terms and Conditio...

Recently, our app Breadcrumb for Confluence was released to the Atlassian Marketplace for Data Center. Whilst this is great news for our DC customers, it has added overhead for our development team. It has therefore bee...

The GLiNTECH Development team has been busy churning out features and DC versions of our Server apps in the last few weeks. It's been an exciting time juggling our Atlassian Bug Bounty commitments, customer DC version requests, whilst also takin...

Last year, Atlassian acquired the Mindville Insight app, an asset and configuration management solution. Atlassian announced that, starting from March 31st 2021, Insight capabilities are now included as part of Jira Service Management - in both t...

There have been recent media reports about a security vulnerability that affects Jira Server & Jira Data Center (including Jira software, Jira core and Jira Service Desk for Server and Data Center), and Confl...

The news is out - Jira Service Management is here, the result of a complete overhaul of Jira Service Desk by Atlassian as they push forward in the evolution of the ITSM market. Atlassian and GLiNTECH understand the obstacles posed by ageing ITSM tool...

GLiNTECH has worked with many clients implementing Jira and Advanced Roadmaps and two of the most common pain points and requests we get are for RAG Status and Financial Tracking reporting and visibility across their Strategic Portfolio and PMO. Most...

Atlassian has publicly announced their roadmap for the future ...

Looking at project and task management tools and trying to decide between Trello, Next Gen and Jira Classic? Here is a quick chart comparing the main features.
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It’s a decision that is not to be taken lightly: which service desk solution is going to meet the specific demands of your company? You could stay with ServiceNow, the decade-old option with full ITIL coverage that firs...

Atlassian announced last month it has acquired Mindville, an Atlassian Marketplace Partner and creator of asset and configuration management products such as Insight. Atlassian Partners have been including Insigh...

With the workforce dispersed throughout homes, offices and everywhere in between, keeping teams tightly connected has never been more important. Organisations can rely on collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence to ...

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Two Atlassian Platinum Partners working non-stop for you? That idea is now a reality. Valiantys, a top Atlassi...

The development team here at GLiNTECH have been working hard to bring some crucial updates to Instant Websites for Confluence Cloud. We have listened to our customers and added some new features and also fixed several...

Better Tiles for Confluence available on Atlassian Marketplace The GLiNTECH development team had an early Christmas present at the end of 2019 with the approval of our latest app, Better Tiles for Confluence, on the Atlassian...

The team at GLiNTECH are excited to announce that we have been awarded the status of Top Vendor on the Atlassian Marketplace ...

Microsoft unveiled Edge as the browser that would take the place of Internet Explorer (IE) in 2015. Since then, Internet Explorer 11 hasn't received any new major updates, or support considered vital by many modern w...

The development team at GLiNTECH are excited to announce that our much loved app Terms and Conditions is now available for Jira. This app is the complementary sibling to Terms and Conditions for Confluence and has been in...

Atlassian have recently announced a security vulnerability that affects Bitbucket Server & Bitbucket Data Center, Jira Server & Jira Data Center, and Jira Service Desk & Jira Service Desk Data Center products. If you use these products, see below for...

You may have heard or received an email notification from Atlassian about increases to the price of their products and service offerings. Atlassian is increasing the price of Cloud, Server, and Data Center products to allow the...

Atlassian have recently announced a security vulnerability that affects Confluence Server and Data Center products. If you use this product, see below for steps to address this vulnerability. Summary of Vulnerabili...

One of the useful features of Jira 7.12 is granting edit rights for filters and dashboards ...

Recently Atlassian announced that Jira Software 7.6 version and Jira Service Desk 3.9 version for Data and Server Center will be reaching End of Life. There are designated End of Life versions in place for this. Currently, a large percentage ...

Introducing the Jira Server mobile app for iOS and Android Atlassian has just introduced the much-anticipated Jira Server mobile app. After months of tireless development and industry rumours, the Jira Server mobile app ...

Atlassian have announced a security update that affects Jira Server and Jira Data Center products. If you use either of these products, see below for steps to address this vulnerability. Summary of Vulnerability Atlassian disclo...

Styling Confluence can be problematic. There are a small number of fonts available and the formatting options are limited. This is a problem we encounter regularly with our clients so we wanted to share ou...

People aren't perfect and this is also true for software development teams. It is inevitable that software defects will crop up during software development, however, a robust practice will ensure that code reviews catch quirks in th...

Our most popular Jira app is now available for Jira Data Center! Compact Cards for Jira allows users to reduce the size of their Backlog items and Sprint cards to see more or less information. Hover over your card of choice to watch ...

Jira 7.12 introduced the Custom Field Optimizer for Jira Data Center which has brought Custom Field Contexts to the forefront. Unfortunately, Atlassian's documentation ...

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Atlassian has announced that Crowd Server and Crowd Data Center, might be at risk after a series of security issues were detected. Below you will find information on each of the security issues identified by Atlassian, as well as confirmation as to whethe...

Atlassian has announced that Bitbucket Data Center instances, may be at risk after a series of security issues were detected. Below you will find information on each of the security issues identified by Atlassian, as well as confirmation as to whether or ...

There was news for Atlassian users in March and April 2019, as the released details of not one but two security vulnerabilities affecting Atlassian Confluence products. The security vulnerability was labelled as being of 'critical severity'. The team at G...

This year’s Atlassian Summit was held in Las Vegas and the GLiNTECH team made the trek across the globe to attend. This year’s Summit event was mainly focused on major improvements across the Atlassian product suite, as well as recent acquisitions. Atlass...

How additional licensing costs may affect your IT budget in 2019 Are your Atlassian tools ready? What is happening? Oracle have changed how they licence their Java products ...

The Problem Portfolio for Jira allows teams to plan their future pipeline of work effectively. While managing issues, project managers will often assign issues to teams. Unfortunately, these teams cannot be displ...

Atlassian announced today that GLiNTECH has received Atlassian Partner of the Year 2018: Business Teams for their outstanding contribution and achievements during Atlassian's fiscal year 2018. This includes excep...

At GLiNTECH, we're committed to ensuring that you have high-quality support for your Atlassian products for as long as you need. That's why we want to make sure you're aware of all upcoming ...

New Atlassian app for our clients GLiNTECH has recently completed the acquisition of a new Atlassian app targeting the Jira platform. The deal includes the acquisition of the app Dash, previously owned by Polymath Solutions and s...

GLiNTECH will a sponsor at this year's Atlassian Team Tour, where Atlassian will present on The Future of Teamwork. Organisations of the future are comprised of a network of teams. Top companies will be built around system...

We had a problem Being (primarily) a professional services company, we have a lot of our staff out on customer sites working to help them get the most from their Atlassian tools. Whilst we track our engagements in ou...

The in-house development team at GLiNTECH are happy to announce the version releases for four of our most popular Atlassian Apps. Available now on the marketplace ...

Atlassian does not provide support for products that are on versions considered End of Life. The good news is, GLiNTECH is aware of the upcoming end of life dates and can help upgrade your software to the newest version - ensuring...

Atlassian now has a SAML 2.0 Authentication app available included with Confluence data center, if obtained from the Marketplace ...

Collaboration was the hot topic at this year's American leg of the Atlassian Summit; collaboration and a raft of new features for one of Atlassian's established stalwarts, JIRA. Other announcements included th...

San Jose, CA September 11, 2017 - Atlassian announced today that GLiNTECH has won Atlassian Partner of the Year 2017, Customer Growth for their outstanding contribution and achievements during Atlassian's fis...

Atlassian has recently announced the official launch of its new HipChat Data Center edition, previously available to only beta users. Designed to bring large, growing teams in enterprise businesses the reliabili...

Here’s a look at what the pricing changes mean for users Atlassian Cloud is an essential entry point for Atlassian solutions. This popular collaboration software has, until now, had rather broad pricing ti...

It’s only natural that GLiNTECH would seek out the best add-ons to help its large-scale clients make better use of Atlassian’s powerful collaboration software. Three new Atlassian add-ons for our Confluence clients That day is here. ...

In a world where application workloads can be in high demand at a moment’s notice, it is good practice to performance tune your Red Hat Enterprise Linux server infrastructure An always-on Internet is enabling customers to...

Private clouds offer many business advantages and adhering to standards will help ease future change With IT modernisation a clear business imperative, moving away from a mixture of disparate systems to a consistent and repeatab...

Get IT infrastructure right to ensure your business is agile enough to adapt in an ever-changing environment. From new mobile apps to global supply chains, today’s business environment is changing faster than ever....

Bridging the gap between product development and operations in the form of DevOps is heralding a new era in quality control and business agility Welcome to the new world of DevOps. For technical people running the wor...

The new, updated Terms and Conditions add-on for Confluence ...

In past blogs we looked at testing tools for Atlassian like Xray and Zephyr. Our team at GLiNTECH also like QASymphony’s tool and invited the company to write about its benefits so that you are aware of them as an option as well. Here i...

If you've arrived at this post looking for a one-word answer to the above question, that answer is: ‘Yes!’. But let’s go back a few steps for a brief explanation of what ITIL is… Starting with a very high-level view, ITIL i...

A common request our Atlassian experts receive is for the ability to embed a feed of their LinkedIn Company Updates into Confluence. For example, it is the area on a LinkedIn Company Page that looks like this: embedded linkedin...

If you’ve paid any attention to news surrounding Atlassian in recent weeks, then you knew already that this year’s Atlassian Summit – held in San Jose, California – was going to be something special and Atlassian’s team of developer...

Security Update from Atlassian Atlassian has launched an update to three of its products in order to combat what it describes as ‘critically severe’ vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities affect Atlassian’s JIRA, Confluence and Bitbuc...

State of DevOps Report 2016: All the News from the Most Comprehensive DevOps Report Yet Released For five years running, the State of DevOps team has taken the pulse of the business software development industry, fee...

If you are using JIRA or Confluence alone, then there is so much you are missing out on. JIRA and Confluence fit together like two pieces of a puzzle, giving users and managers a pair of interconnected platforms to plan, e...

Atlassian Release JIRA Service Desk 3.2: Here’s What Lies in Store Eager JIRA users are being treated to not one but two exciting updates from the Atlassian development team this week. Both JIRA Service desk an...

Computer programmers and designers, cloud platform enthusiasts, engineers, and techies alike are looking forward to discovering the significant potential of Google Cloud Platform's products and services this year. If a hands...

It is best practice to use SSL and HTTPS to secure communications between your users and your website and avoid the potential security risk that unencrypted traffic poses. HipChat Server ships with a "self-signed" certificate, requ...

GLiNTECH and Atlassian were at the Project Management Institute's 2016 conference in Adelaide, speaking with professionals from all areas. The theme was Adapt. Change. Disrupt, with a real emphasis on how large company's approach...

Zephyr has been the 'go-to’ plugin for users looking to run tests on information stored in Jira. Powerful, versatile and supremely capable, Zephyr is popular with Jira users. Xray is the new kid on the block and it’s making a lot o...

For those who have tried JIRA Portfolio Workshop 2016 1.0 or considering a project or portfolio planning feature to JIRA Software, then this will be useful for you. According to internal Atlassian sources, Portfolio 2.0 will be ...

Confluence is able to handle multiple users and administrator accounts across a range of different spaces. However, to get the very best out of the software, you need to be able to onboard users and administrators quickly ...

Large organisations recognise to be truly agile in their approach to software, they must rid themselves of the error prone dependencies associated with manual deployments of technology. A great team of developers creating ‘worki...

Puppet recently announced its collaboration with HipChat on new integrations which means that we should be seeing more tools available for enterprise teams to extend their DevOps and modern software delivery practices. This news is...

Often when speaking to our clients, they often express their lack of capability to customise the look and feel of JIRA Service Desk ...

4 ways to enhance product documentation for mobile first ...

Atlassian have quietly released details on the up and coming Atlassian Certified Professional (ACP) program that is due to land in mid-2016. The plan is to roll out certification for all their products and each certificatio...

Software producers Atlassian scored a big hit with their JIRA Service Desk software on its release back in 2013, and the firm will be hoping for another success story with the launch of the latest instalment in the s...

I have come to the realisation that senior front-end developer is a 'hard to hire' role. Here is the problem; the barrier to entry is low, anyone can get started with HTML, CSS and JavaScript with little to no traini...

Product documenation forms an integral part of the customer experience. Providing the best possible experience for customers means they get their questions answered fast. Raising a support request is probably their least desirable option. It’s no surprise...

Meet Newborn Anne & friends: GLiNTECH’s contribution to the Sydney Children’s Hospital Each year GLiNTECH donate profits to purchase technology for the Sydney Children's Hospital. We have a long running part...

Redaction is the best approach to sharing private content securely. First off, it’s good to note that Confluence has three levels of security built-in. Global permissions determine who can access Confluence. Space ...

Atlassian announced their intention to remove the Documentation theme from Confluence Cloud in CONF-38256 ...

GLiNTECH’s top takeaways from the Software, IT and Business Teams keynotes at Atlassian Summit 2015. HipChat Connect will enhance HipChat (As the Summit updates were broadcasted directly from San Francisco via HipChat). Hipcha...

In late September we were struggling to get our product documentation updated in time for the launch of Better Blogs for Confluence ...

This article is a summary of the key points taken from a keynote speech at Scrum Australia: Corporate Start-Up, Scrum, DevOps and eBay's 5 Minute Deals The full presentation was given by Dimitri Spyridopoulos & Justin McRae at Scrum A...

This blog post originally appeared as a guest blog post for Seibert Media ...

_Atlassian User Groups, 10 SeptemberSydney Atlassian User Group - Rebooted It's been a while since the last official Sydney Atlassian User Groups (AUG) we're really excited to see them making a come back on the 10th of September. For those unfamiliar wi...

Many companies create and update their IT documentation on Confluence. One of the challenges is storing and sharing passwords in a secure manner. Imagine a situation where you have several support staff that need access to IT system information and one or...

Now that we have had time to use all of the recent updates that have been implemented to the JIRA Service Desk over the past few months, it would be useful to go over them, especially if you are still on the fence about i...

Having a superior service desk often means having a better business. This belief certainly rings true to many customers, as one of their biggest frustrations derives from a mismanaged user-support system; whether it’s lost tickets, a disorga...

Atlassian announced version 5.8 of Confluence back in early June of this year. In the previous version (5.7), Altassian implemented a new file management experience, which supported the upload, comment, edit, and resolve stages of the collaboration cycle....

We were recently asked by a client to migrate a bug tracking system to JIRA on-demand (now called JIRA Cloud). After looking under the hood at the client's instance, we offered 10 key points to consider for the migration. Many of t...

Atlassian is running RoadTrip 2015 on March 26th and this year it's coming to Melbourne. This year's RoadTrip will be focusing on how great teamwork gets more done - and that doesn't just mean IT or development teams. It's abo...

A couple of weeks ago, GLiNTECH hosted our first event for the year; an Atlassian Enterprise Workshop. This workshop was organised on the back of the huge interest and success of last November’s Atlassian Enterprise Bre...

Some companies may be in the process of migrating from SharePoint to Confluence, or have a need to run both applications side by side. In both situations they will often turn to the SharePoint Connector ...

On a recent project, one of our developers came across the need to change the display of SLAs in JIRA Service Desk (JSD) from the hh:mm (hour) format to displaying days. Why, you might ask, would a user want this type of display? For most users, hours ar...

The GLiNTECH team is very proud to announce that we’re the recipient of Atlassian’s Fastest Growing (Non Platinum) Expert award for 2014. In winning the award, we topped over 350 other Atlassian Experts fr...

After a break of six months due to an overlap with May’s major Road Trip event, the Atlassian User Group (AUG) returned to Sydney last week. And it returned with a bang as the biggest turnout yet - more than 130 people - came to mingle with fellow...

The team at GLiNTECH received some fantastic news recently when we were awarded the status of Atlassian Platinum Expert. This isn’t something that happens everyday, or to just any business; the global membership accreditation ...

Back in May, Darryl Duke - founder of the award-winning US software developer and Atlassian Expert, Brikit - came to the GLiNTECH office in Sydney and hosted a webinar called Transforming Confluence which discussed how busines...

On Friday 9th May 2014, we’re pleased to be able to provide a unique opportunity to users of Atlassian’s Confluence. Darryl Duke is the founder of the award-winning US software developer and Atlassian Expert, Brikit ...

For the past few years, GLiNTECH has been involved in major software projects at Cochlear ...

With the nature of our business meaning we’ve always got consultants out and about working at client sites, it’s not every day that we have the whole GLiNTECH team under one roof. But as often as possible, we pull everyone togeth...

The next few months are shaping up to be very busy for the GLiNTECH team, particularly so for our Atlassian specialists with two big events approaching. First up, we’re the exclusive partner for the Getting Git ...

Our developers have once again added new features to our Meeting Room Calendar app. This is the app that provides a quick - and obvious - visual reference as to whether a meeting room has been booked (you can read more about how the app works Meeting Room...

We’ve just added another plugin to the Atlassian Marketplace and it’s one that should please fans of Continuous Integration. This latest plugin lets Bamboo users manage web application deploym...

On the back of some great Scrum and agile events in Sydney this year (think along the lines of Scrum Australia and Agile Australia) we wanted to do our bit to keep the conversation going. So we got involved with a Sydney Scrum User Group ...

Prompted by a request, we’ve just released a new version of the Meeting Room Calendar app we made publicly available last month. We received some feedback (anonymous, unfortunately) advising that the attendees list on the app wasn’t displaying correctly. ...

Last night a bunch of the GLiNTECH team headed over to Lavender Bay for the Beaumont Trivia Night. Organised by Beaumont Consulting, this wasn’t a regular trivia session but a charity fundraiser by way of auctions, with proceeds from the night going to Vi...

Back in February, our developers created an app that helped sort out a bit of confusion with booking our meeting rooms. Basically, it linked a Google calendar and displayed it on a tablet stuck on the wall outside the meeting room so that passers by could...

If you’re aiming to be agile, at some point you’ll probably end up using some kind of a wallboard. What’s a wallboard? The most simple way to describe it is probably as a visual way of displaying how tasks are progressing: To do, In Progress, Done. They’r...

Earlier this year we published a brief post announcing that our Terms and Conditions for Confluence for Confluence was available. Having got some feedback from users since and worked off those suggestions, we’ve just released version 1.0.4 to the Atlassia...

Meet the GLiNTECH team. Well, some of them... Our team is into software development. That being the case, it makes sense that our developers should use a tool like Atlassian’s JIRA for issue and project tracking; “...

Scrum Australia 2013 was held in Sydney recently and was the first conference of its kind to be held Down Under. GLiNTECH is proud to have been a sponsor of this event, but much more than that we were happy to attend as a supporter and spe...

The GeoNext conference was held in Sydney recently for the Geo Community as an event focusing on location-based technology and businesses. At GLiNTECH we’d been playing in this space a bit - most recently with our _BLiPS - so were interested in some of th...

Our R&D developers have been playing with IBM Worklight quite a lot recently and think it’s pretty fantastic, so we wanted to share a few of its features. Just quickly though; what is Worklight? In a nutshell, Worklight helps you build cross-platform mobi...

The main meeting room at GLiNTECH is often in high demand. It gets used by a lot of different people, for a lot of different purposes; meetings, interviews, training, development games, watching a bit of sport on the projector, beer tastings, etc. Like mo...

A couple of months ago our developers posted a Confluence plugin called Terms and Conditions on the Atlassian Marketplace (you can check it out Read more

Exporting and importing content for translation in multilingual websites using IBM WCM Building multilingual websites in IBM WCM where the content in translated from the base site involves the exporting of content (typically English) and importing the tra...

n GLiNTECH's recent Future of Software Development in Australia survey for 2012/13, we asked 'the following question: 'What do you think IT leaders could do better to support customer satisfaction?’. What follows is some general analysis of the responses ...

In GLiNTECH's recent Future of Software Development in Australia survey for 2012/13, we asked 'the following question: 'What are your views on the offshoring of Software Development to other countries?’. What follows is some general analysis of the respon...

In GLiNTECH's recent glintech_the_future_of_software_development_survey_report_2011-12.pdf, we asked the following question: 'What limitations do you see in Agile becoming the development methodology of choice for large scale software projects?'. What fol...

A typical website implemented through IBM WCM may have multiple HTML forms for allowing users to contact the site administrators for various purposes, such as contacting the company or sending other custom requests such as feedback and complaints. The sam...

In GLiNTECH's recent Future of Software Development in Australia survey for 2012/13, we asked 'the following question: What do you believe is the 'next big thing' in Software Development?'. What follows is some general analysis of the responses to that qu...

At time of writing, Confluence (4.3) doesn’t easily support sending email via SMTPs, which makes using it with Google Apps a bit difficult. At GLiNTECH we worked around the issue using stunnel ...

In recognition of our focus on enterprise software services, GLiNTECH have been awarded the status of an Atlassian Enterprise Expert. That makes us one of only a handful in the Asia-Pacific region to hold such a badge. We’ve been working with Atlassian si...

The 'Find A Clinic' application has been designed to assist people in finding their nearest health clinic, anywhere, any time. Purpose Using location-based technology, the 'Find A Clinic' application is an instant directory which an individual can access ...

Every few months our consultants and developers are asked to complete a short survey about the main software development tools they’re using. It’s that information that gets used to update the Dev Tools We Love page on the GLiNTECH website. While that’s o...

When GLiNTECH first demonstrated our Mobile Mortgage Application earlier this year, it showed in a very clear and tangible manner how Mobile BPM can bring about significant improvements in automated processes. With that in mind, here are five key things w...

IT consulting is a game of delicate balance. Of course you need the right technical skills, but in a competitive environment it’s not good enough to bank on those skills alone to get you through. Consultants deal with people, as well as technology. So, fr...

One of our internal aims as a company is to have a minimum of 10% of our staff as graduates. It’s something we’re really proud of and we always look forward to our annual intake. We started the Graduate Program in 2003 and have so far helped around thirty...

At the beginning of September 2012, GLiNTECH’s Managing Director, Dimitri Spyridopoulos, presented at the IBM Business Agility in Action series of events across Australia. The events were designed to demonstrate how businesses could fu...

Recently at Innovate in Sydney, one of the most fascinating presentations in the mobile sphere was Best practices for delivering mobile applications to market faster ...

Have you ever been in a shopping centre and wondered what level you’re on or how to find the shop you need to go to? How about going into an open-plan office and wandering around looking for an elusive meeting room? While there are a lot of map applicatio...

Mobility at work is changing the way we operate. So what are the best ways to stay mobile and how do you keep track of the work as it gets done? The biggest contributor to the current cultural change within modern business is mobile technology. How we wor...

This is a follow-up to a previous post about editing data for BPM Caches and Tables. Viewing and editing records of any kind is a common requirement for online user interfaces. What follows is a very efficient way of enabling/disabling the creation and de...

Assume you have a scenario where you need to display and edit the information for multiple people. The following benefit is out of the box functionality for managing records. For this specific example, we have a “Vendor Contract Generation” and a list of ...

Three weeks ago I attended the Agile Australia 2012 conference in Melbourne. Now in its fourth year and with more than 850 attendees (more than double the number from year one), I was expecting to hear a series of talks aimed at seasoned agile professiona...

Integrated stacks are starting to trickle into the market. Though still very much at the early adopter stage, it is worth knowing a little about them so we can determine how they may change the way development teams work. With this in mind, I attended the...

In March 2012 we published this blog post about offshoring and whether or not it was truly Agile. Based on one of the comments made in that post, “what has changed in recent times is that core system functions and bespoke development are being sent to int...

Recently there was a requirement in JIRA that a custom field needed to be read-only. This custom field also needed fill based on previous selections which were on the issue edit view. JIRA can be customised by adding Java script and HTML to descriptions o...

Instantaneous responses have become an expectation nowadays. With that in mind, we investigated how to improve the ease-of-use and lengthy processing time of document-driven tasks. What we came up with was a workflow that produced a web enabled mobile sol...

Producing PDFs on the fly using Adobe tools for form design and Java integration in IBM BPM to produce the final populated PDF Why? There is a common requirement to produce PDF forms pre-filled with data for a customer to print and sign, etc. Why the tech...

We believe the answer is ‘yes’ – as long as you know how to put your BPM system to better use. According to Gartner’s BPM Survey Insights: Business Process Management Matures as Process Change Becomes More Ad Hoc (2011), ‘while organisations that undert...

Large Enterprise clients seldom look at technical prowess alone when making the decision to work with GLiNTECH. Of course this is important - essential in fact - but it is not the only factor in making the decision. There are a multitude of other things t...

When limiting field lengths in JIRA you can only have 255 characters or an unlimited number out of the box. However, there many be times when you want the user to be able to add more then 255 characters but not more than, say, 1000 characters. The followi...

There is no doubt that the term ‘offshoring’ is a polarising one. From one perspective it means cost saving and efficiency, from another it simply means job losses. Whatever your own opinion, there is no doubt that it is an ever-increasing trend as more b...

At a recent event, we exhibited our iPad app for mortgage application capture, calculation and work-flow. Staying true to one of GLiNTECH’s main values of making technical solutions demonstrable, we found a way of turning the traditional and cumbersome mo...

Following the release of GLiNTECH’s ‘glintech_the_future_of_software_development_survey_report_2011-12.pdf′ survey, GLiNTECH Managing Director Dimitri Spyridopoulos was asked for his interpretation of the results and survey highlights. Q: What were the bi...

We thank everyone who completed the Future of Software Development Survey 2011/12. Congratulations to L Hartley for winning the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 32GB Tablet! Survey results will be out mid October....

To read our report of the Future of Software Development in Australia 2011/12 go to our surveys page. It also has a comparison from 2010 answers....

Join GLiNTECH's Managing Director, Dimitri Spryidopoulos, in Las Vegas, NV, USA for IMPACT 2011. It's the IBM WebSphere Conference of the year and it will be taking place between April 10th and 15th, 2011....

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Here's a quick walk through for the installation of Portal Express 6.1.5 on Windows Server 2003 (x86) Required Files To install Portal Express 6.1.5 on Win32 you will need to have the following files from IBM: CZ8G8ML CZ8H2ML C1HA1ML CZ8I8ML CZ819ML CZEA3...

Version 3 of IBM's Lotus Symphony office suite has been released. From the Symphony news page: After many months of extended testing in beta and great feedback from our community of users we are pleased to officially release Lotus Symphony Version 3. This...

GLiNTECH is committed to training young Australians and as such have expanded our graduate intake to twice a year. Our Next intake will be in March 2011 so if you're a graduate and interested in working with us, please forward your resume to careers@glint...

Due to it's popularity, this post has been migrated here from a previous staff blog. It may be outdated or missing information. Continuous integration for a Tibco project - part 1 This is a first in a series of articles explaining how we achieved continu...