Crowd Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"Good SSO solution for Atlassian products, but not a full SSO solution for other applications"

What do you like best about Crowd? Being part of the Atlassian product family, it works seamlessly well with other Atlassian products such as JIRA, and Confluence. As a product: * Very easy to set up and configure, compared to other enterprise SSO solutions. * Supports a variety of user directory types, including the most common ones such as AD, database. What do you dislike about Crowd? Crowd really only works well with Atlassian products. Outside of Atlassian, it is not much of a SSO ...

"Good Start to an open collaboration."

What do you like best about Crowd? Confluence is all about encouraging team collaboration and this is another fine example of how they choose to implement the true user option. With the ability for single sign on scaling to multiple directories, our merger with a segment of our organization went through seamlessly. What do you dislike about Crowd? Still has some work, being an open source project you have the ability to make the tool what you want, which can be a downside if you are trying ...

"Crowd authentication server for Atlassian Products"

What do you like best about Crowd? I can use crowd to offload authentication so JIRA and my other applications don't have to handle the extra load. It also allows me to specify multiple different authentication sources for my applications and allows SSO capabilities within the Atlassian tools. What do you dislike about Crowd? It does not support true SSO. It only does SSO within the Atlassian tools and it only works when SSL/HTTP is enabled. There is also no multi-node/HA support for this ...