Unlock AI and Automation: The Strategic Advantage of Moving to Atlassian Cloud

[Abstract] 

With Atlassian officially announcing that the Data Center (DC) will reach its End of Life (EOL) on March 28, 2029, the enterprise journey to the Cloud has entered its final three-year countdown. Today, the underlying maintenance costs, system upgrade downtime risks, and the lack of native AI capabilities in traditional Data Center environments are increasingly becoming bottlenecks to improving development efficiency.

In contrast, Atlassian Cloud not only offers a maintenance-free, zero-downtime infrastructure but also exclusively introduces the Rovo AI, no-code Automation, and global data insights (Atlassian Analytics). This article will break down the core experience differences between Atlassian Cloud and Data Center, revealing why top global teams like Mercedes-Benz and Air France-KLM are abandoning DC for the Cloud.

As an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner, DragonSoft looks forward to partnering with you to smoothly launch your Cloud transformation journey.

The Cloud Advantage: Making Work Easier

1.Collaborate seamlessly across all Atlassian apps

Easily collaborate, search, and manage work without switching between different tools.

  • Search across apps

Find issues, pages, and updates across Jira, Confluence, and other cloud apps from a single search bar.

  • Set and track team goals

Use the Goals app to track shared goals your way, connect them to outcomes, and communicate progress.

  • Instant view of work

The Home and Teams apps in cloud give every user a personalized view of recent work, project teams, and priorities.

2.Simplify admin and security with builtin maintenance

Offload the burden of manual server maintenance to Atlassian Cloud, allowing your IT team to say goodbye to manual upgrades and focus on high-value strategic work while ensuring enterprise-grade data protection.

  • Stay current with automatic upgrades

Cloud updates automatically, so your team always has the latest features, with no downtime.

  • Protect your data with Atlassian Guard

Atlassian Guard protects your data with built-in security and threat detection across all cloud products.

  • Manage all your users from a single dashboard

Set up and adjust users across all your Atlassian apps from one simple dashboard, with Atlassian Administration.

3.Make informed decisions with connected data

Get instant insights with Atlassian analytics, instead of putting together reports from separate tools.

  • See your team’s data in one place

Easily access data from Atlassian Data Lake and external sources to get a unified view of your work.

  • Get insights with natural language

Generate SQL queries using natural language to quickly get the insights you need.

  • Share and collaborate with analytics

Comment, tag teammates, and share dashboards that combine cross-product data.

4.Automate tasks across your apps without code

Set up automations across products with just a description of what you want to automate.

  • Automate tasks without code

Create automations with natural language prompts in Rovo Studio with no coding skills needed.

  • Set up automations across products

Set up automations across cloud apps to keep teams up to speed, no matter where they’re working.

  • Automate with third party apps

Automate third party tools like Slack or Google Workspace with Atlassian’s cloud products.

Features Only-in-Cloud: Unlock AI and New Experiences

1. Simplify your data landscape

Make sense of your scattered app data on a single platform with Atlassian robust data layer.

  • Find related work and information

Find work, goals, and decisions across all cloud apps with Teamwork Graph-powered search.

  • Bring all your tools together

Bring together data from Atlassian’s and 100+ connected apps.

  • Get accurate answers with AI

Rovo, Atlassian’s AI tool, uses Teamwork Graph to create answers based on how your teams work.

2. Add AI to the team

Use Rovo, Atlassian’s AI teammate, to search and chat, instead of looking through individual apps to find answers.

  • Find what you need with Rovo Search

Use Rovo Search to find the info you need across Atlassian and 50+ tools.

  • Use Rovo Chat for incontext answers

With Rovo Chat, ask a question or upload a file and receive contextaware answers.

  • Automate routine tasks with Rovo Agents

Build your own Rovo Agent to triage issues or summarize content, no coding required.

3. Try innovative cloud-first apps and collections

Add new functionality to your Atlassian toolchain continuously without relying on 3rd party apps.

  • Reduce unnecessary meetings

Use Loom to record and share video updates so you can replace meetings.

  • Plan and launch new products easily

Capture and prioritize ideas, organize user feedback, and plan roadmaps.

  • Create and track your team’s strategy

Use the Strategy Collection to align goals, plans, and progress in one hub.

Apps

App name Cloud Data Center
Jira Software
Confluence
Bitbucket
Jira Service Management
Jira Align
Statuspage
Trello
Loom
Compass
Jira Product Discovery
Focus
Talent
OpsGenie
Atlassian Guard

AI

App name Cloud Data Center
Rovo Search
Rovo Chat
Rovo Studio
AI Summaries
AI Definitions

Platform Apps

App name Cloud Data Center
Analytics
Administration
Goals
Home
Team
Automation

“Atlassian cloud is the solution for high performance, high security, high avaiability, and the newest features.”

MEHMET SARI

Modern Collaboration Platform Team, Mercededs-Benz

“Other teams often come to us, asking to upgrade to Atlassian cloud because they see how it

could improve their life and deliver a better experience. Now, we have more non-developer users on Atlassian than developers.”

NATHAN WATTIMENA

Scrum Master – RTE Next Generation Data Center

Air France-KLM

Ascend to new heights with Atlassian Cloud

Data Center end of life will take place on March 28, 2029. Data Center subscriptions and any associated Marketplace apps will expire on this date. To make this transition as smooth as possible, Atlassian is winding down support in phases across the next 3 years, giving you plenty of time to plan your next steps. It’s time to ascend to new heights with Atlassian Cloud. Your success is our mission

  • Reduce risk and accelerate migration timelines
  • Ensure compliance, performance, and scalability
  • Customize your cloud environment for enterprise needs

Ready to accelerate your journey? Let’s map out your Cloud transformation together. Contact Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner DragonSoft today to get started!

Visit our website: https://hkdsdtech.com/atlassian/cloud

Tel: +852-51679050

Email: customer@hkdsdtech.com

About DragonSoft

Founded in 2006, DragonSoft is now a leading DevSecOps solution provider in China. Integrating DevOps with the Agile management concept and the leading tools in the world, DragonSoft offers ALM (SDLM) / DevSecOps / Agile solutions as well as implementation, upgrading, training, customized development and maintenance services to automate the software development process, drive team collaboration, improve both efficiency and quality, and also ensure the traceability and measurability.