Gliffy in the News

San Francisco, CA, July 30, 2009
Gliffy Opens Its API Move Could Create a Web-based Army of Online Visio Killers

Gliffy, maker of the world's most popular browser-based diagramming and flowchart tool, today opened its application programming interface (API) to outside developers. By making its API publicly available, Gliffy takes advantage of a growing movement by companies across a wide range of industries who are unlocking their APIs to extend the reach of their applications and data.

The company said developers have already created two applications based on the Gliffy API: a plugin that allows bloggers on the Wordpress platform to easily add diagrams and flowcharts to their posts, and a backup script that enables users to backup their Gl

"We pioneered this market nearly four years ago," said Chris Kohlhart, founder and CEO, Gliffy. "We've done it again by resetting the criteria needed to compete not only against our leading online platform, but against legacy, platform-restricted competitors like Visio and OmniGraffle."

Gliffy's API and language-specific client libraries (Java, PHP) make integration as easy as adding a few lines of code. The API also includes OAuth support for third party applications. The company has built a growing developer community, vibrant forums and a public issue tracker to provide developers with the tools they need to quickly add and support powerful diagramming and flowchart features into new products and services. Developers can go to http://www.gliffy.com/developer/ to learn about the API and request access to API keys.

Combined with a new user interface, the API release is the latest in a number of moves the company has made recently to extend its lead as the online alternative to traditional platform-dependent and costly drawing tools.

Gliffy was the first company to provide a low-cost, simple and collaborative flowchart and diagramming alternative to a market that, until Gliffy, had few competitive options. Gliffy's cloud-based application makes information visible and easier to understand. Over the past two years, the company has amassed a passionate customer base that reflects a cross-section of users from academia, enterprise, software development, and business.

San Francisco, CA, July 15, 2009
Gliffy Gets Spiffy: World’s Most Popular Online Diagramming Tool Gets A Makeover Startup is changing the way people communicate

Gliffy, maker of the world's most popular browser-based diagramming and flowchart tool, today launched a brand new user interface and improved network symbols for Gliffy Online, making it easier for the product's 400,000 users to integrate high-impact graphics into their communications.

The refreshed user interface is the latest in a series of moves the company has made recently to extend its lead as the online alternative to traditional platform-dependent and costly drawing tools. The new user interface equals the quality and experience of current desktop offerings, putting it on a collision course with competitors such as Microsoft Visio.

"The new user interface makes what we think is the best collaborative drawing tool even better," said Chris Kohlhardt, Gliffy's CEO and founder. "Our customers benefit from the enhanced look and feel of the application, as well as the ability to add even better looking symbols into their drawings."

Gliffy was the first company to provide a low-cost, simple and collaborative flowchart and diagramming alternative to a market that, until Gliffy, had few competitive options. Gliffy's cloud-based application makes information visible and easier to understand. Over the past two years, the company has amassed a passionate customer base that reflects a cross-section of users from academia, enterprise, software development, and business.

For a full list of updates to Gliffy Online, please visit http://jira.gliffy.com/browse/GLIFFY/fixforversion/10101.

San Francisco, CA, July 7, 2009
Gliffy Updates Confluence and JIRA Plugins Adds support for Confluence Macro browser; Adjusts pricing to support new Atlassian user plans

Gliffy (www.gliffy.com) today announced updates to its popular Atlassian plugins. Gliffy Confluence Plugin (version 2.0.1) adds support for the new Confluence Macro Browser, making it even easier for users to add and collaborate on flowcharts and diagrams within Confluence pages. The company also announced new pricing adjusted to support new Atlassian pricing plans.

More Atlassian customers use Gliffy to make information visual and easier to understand than any other diagramming plugin. The Gliffy Confluence Plugin allows users to create attractive, collaborative, web-based diagrams right on a Confluence page. Gliffy’s extensive shape library gives users a wide variety of industry-standard icons/graphics to strengthen the impact of their communications.

“We continue to be committed to making improvements on our JIRA and Confluence plugins to make the addition of high-impact drawings easier for users,” said Chris Kohlhardt, CEO and Founder, Gliffy. “We’ve worked hard to create an optimal, well-integrated experience for our customers and for Atlassian’s customers.”

Atlassian recently introduced the Macro Browser in the newest version of its Confluence wiki software, Confluence 3.0 . The macro browser exposes macros in a Confluence site through a point-and-click graphical interface . Through its close relationship with Atlassian, Gliffy’s development team was able to strengthen its third-party plugin to ensure smooth integration with the new macro browser.

Gliffy adjusted pricing of its plugin to match the new Atlassian pricing plans, by adding support for 100 and 2,000 user plans.

The Gliffy 2.0.1 release also addresses minor bug fixes. For a full list of issues addressed in Gliffy Confluence Plugin, please visit: http://jira.gliffy.com/browse/GLIFFY/fixforversion/10100. For issues addressed in Gliffy JIRA Plugin, please visit: http://jira.gliffy.com/browse/GLIFFY/fixforversion/10092.

San Francisco, CA, June 23, 2009
Gliffy Drops JIRA Plugin Price by 50% Company enhances the value of popular products

Gliffy (www.gliffy.com) today announced that the world's most popular web-based drawing tool just became twice as good. The price of the Gliffy Plugin for JIRA has been dropped by half.

With the price reduction, Gliffy is making it even easier and more affordable for developers to add high-impact, great-looking diagrams and drawings to their JIRA issues. Gliffy Plugin for JIRA takes what Gliffy has learned with the wildly-popular Confluence plugin and applies those learning’s to the world of check-ins and check-outs for greater understanding and efficiency throughout the development process.

With the suddenly-more-affordable Gliffy Plugin for JIRA, customers can:
* Increase productivity and eliminate uncertainty by describing new features and issues with Gliffy drawings
* Create wireframes to quickly mockup new features that need to be implemented
* Describe user process flows using intuitive flow charts instead of paragraphs of text
* Design software using UML notation

Gliffy’s online diagramming software allows for quick and easy diagram development. With the software's cloud-based platform, users can collaborate on drawings, - a key feature platform-dependent competitors are unable to provide.