What are our development teams currently working on? What’s new about our social intranet suite Linchpin and the Confluence extensions (apps) that we have developed? It’s time again to take a look backstage and read our latest work-in-progress update.
Atlassian Data Center vs. Server: When is it worth purchasing Data Center products?
Atlassian doesn’t just offer Server and Cloud versions of its products Confluence, Jira, Jira Service Desk and Bitbucket. It also offers Data Center deployments. When does it make sense to purchase Server, and when would it be better to purchase Data Center?
Our new use case and app library for Atlassian apps
The Atlassian Marketplace is huge. There are hundreds of developers offering thousands of apps on the platform for all imaginable scenarios. And finding the right solution on it is not so simple when it comes to specific problems and applications. To provide you with an overview, we have selected and compiled well-developed app solutions for use cases which customers always ask us about. The result is the new use case library in our knowledge base.
New version of the App Center for Confluence: Describe and organize your applications
The App Center extends Confluence by offering users the ability to include links to web-based applications (Apps) that are being used within your company: Via a simple dialog, users can click and collect the apps that they use from a list of all available applications. Then they can go directly to exactly those applications that they need for their daily work. Version 1.3 of the App Center, providing more flexibility and new features for both users and administrators.
App Center for Confluence: Controlling the visibility of apps for different user groups
App Center is a Confluence app and also a part of the social intranet suite developed by us – Linchpin – which allows users to access the applications, tools and resources they frequently need for their daily work from within Confluence – for example, time tracking, other Atlassian tools, online applications, websites and so on. Now, administrators can configure the visibility of all apps in the selection dialog.
Atlassian is the “leader” in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools 2017
According to Gartner, Atlassian offers a comprehensive solution for the implementation of agile as well as more traditional projects in that it has limited requirements for functions at the portfolio level.
Google and the European Privacy Policy: Google joins the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
When we talk to customers and prospects about enterprise software in the cloud – such as Google G Suite – we often encounter reservations about privacy and data security. Do US companies such as Google, Microsoft & Co. really maintain the high standards that are legally binding in Germany and the EU? Attorney Wikey Chada takes a look at the facts.
Power Scripts for Jira: Automation and optimization made easy
With scripts, you can extensively customize Jira (screens, custom fields, and more), automate complex workflows, create custom listeners to react to specific events, and enhance Jira’s reporting and integration capabilities. However, many scripting apps that plug into Jira don’t give you access to the full API, or use horribly complex scripting languages. But Power Scripts for Jira makes scripting easy.
MS SharePoint: Like driving a tank to the supermarket!
A few years ago, our fellow consultant and blogger Lutz …
Contemporary collaboration: Conflict resolution online
We have all dealt with conflicts and their solutions in person – but what about conflicts that arise online? Can we solve these conflicts with our existing behavioral patterns or do we need new strategies?