Atlassian Tools - answers at your fingertips
May 19, 2014
Atlassian Tools - answers at your fingertips
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- JIRA
- Confluence Wiki
Overall Satisfaction with Atlassian Confluence
We have used Atlassian products extensively at my prior job, and I am continuing to run into instances of it as I am moving work over to our internal technology shop from outside vendors.
- Simple, intuitive interface, responsive design
- Continuous improvement of the product as evidenced in new dashboard, search, and work organization and workflow features
- Extensive number of integration products to expand base functionality (Lucidchart, Balsamiq, etc.)
- With great flexibility for field manipulation and naming conventions in JIRA, you will need a taxonomy steward/owner to prevent thousands of special fields co-existing (leading to less useful reporting)
- As a system owner it's not always easy to monitor use and licensing of plugins (in mid-size companies may not have much staff dedicated to this)
- Increased efficiency
- Simplified dashboarding for sprint grooming and planning
- HP Application Lifecycle Management,MS SharePoint,Mercury TestDirector
The 3 products above are enterprise grade, heavy footprint, high learning curve tools. All three meet the needs of a larger shop, and support on-premise installs, but are not well-suited to support a smaller footprint organization. All 3 have higher cost to entry, from a support and a user perspective.