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Atlassian unveiled Stride, a team communication solution built from the ground up to help teams more effectively work together.

Stride was built to solve the biggest problems of team communication by bringing together context, conversations, and collaboration into one powerful product, allowing teams to move work forward.

"We believe that a communication tool should help people talk less and do more. None of the products in the market today tackle the problem of workplace communication head-on," said Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian. "We're excited to introduce Stride to the world. We built Stride to bring all the varying ways teams communicate - through text, voice, and video - together into one place. Teams that communicate effectively accomplish more throughout their day because they have the freedom to focus on on the things that matter most."

Stride includes:

- Team Messaging: Designed to maximize collaboration and minimize distraction, Stride's team messaging gives teams a central place to ideate, create, and solve, without distraction. Stride puts the power in the users' hands to use it how they want, with powerful new features like rich text messaging, cloud media integration, secure files, rich media and link integration, fast search, per-room notifications, and more.

- Native Audio and Video Conferencing: Stride Meetings removes all the friction of meetings and adds a cross platform, native audio and video meeting experience that gives teams voice, video, screensharing, remote control, connection to phone numbers, and more built right in, on desktop and mobile.

- Collaboration Tools: Stride lets teams define which messages rise above the rest in importance by marking any message as an Action or Decision from within the messaging screen. All outcomes live neatly in the sidebar, accessible anytime so that team members are never out of the loop on key decisions or important ideas.

- Focus Mode: Stride Focus Mode clears the way for deep, distraction-free work, then quickly catches users up when they're ready to come back, empowering users to unplug when necessary. Focus Mode goes beyond "do not disturb" by calming notifications and displaying a "focus mode" status and presence, giving users the mental space to go into deep work. Focus Mode even surfaces all the important information in room and 1:1 chats - actions, decisions, meetings, messages - in an easy-to-consume format when it's time to return to team work.

"Atlassian is breaking down walls and reimagining the team communication market; no product out there comes close to Stride's comprehensive feature set," said Zubin Irani, CEO of cPrime, Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner. "Stride is true innovation, and we're excited about what this means for current and future customers."

Teams of all sizes can get started with Stride Free, with unlimited users, group chat rooms, direct messaging, and group video chat; file sharing and 5GB storage; 10 apps or bots; Actions and Decisions coordination; and message history up to 25,000 messages.

Stride Free and Stride Standard will be available on Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android and web.