Insights from Atlassian Summit Europe

Nigel Rochford | Wed, May 10, 2017 | News & Events | Atlassian Products | 1 comment

Kris and I both attended the first ever Atlassian Summit in Europe, along with 1,800 participants from 54 countries. I thought it might be useful to provide a quick summary of key insights from the Summit and Partner Day in Barcelona.

Check out all of our photos and tweets from the Summit here. Atlassian reiterated their mission: to unleash the power of every team. This was pretty evident in their psychedelic robot dance introducing the keynote.

There were lots of interesting announcements at the keynote, including:

• Atlassian Online Community - it’s now live!
• Atlassian Marketplace - this has now surpassed $250 million in sales over its lifetime, serving 3,000 add-ons to over 85,000 customers globally.
• Pledge 1% - over 100 Atlassian partners/vendors now commit 1% of their time, resources, etc toward philanthropic efforts. We plan to do the same from 2018.

Some of the most interesting product-related updates are summarised in the next few sections.

New Data Center products

Two new products are being added to Atlassian’s Data Center offerings:

• HipChat (Public Beta)
• Crowd (Public Beta)

Bitbucket smart mirrors have also got smarter with remote distribution and off-caching, meaning that your smart mirror is no longer dependent on your centralised infrastructure or network. Crowd is an interesting one as it brings single single-on via SAML for every Data Center application.

New Server features

A few new features have been announced:

• Portfolio programmes give an aggregated view of plans across your enterprise in JIRA.
• Upgrade experience has been remodelled with new installers to prevent inconsistencies, in-place troubleshooting, and clear KB guides.
• Bamboo now supports creating and storing build plans and configurations as code: they can now be versioned!
• Following the success of Kanban backlogs in Atlassian Cloud, the feature is now available in server.

Atlassian Cloud expands to Europe

Generating 40% of its revenue, Europe has a significant portion of Atlassian’s global customer base. To reflect this, Atlassian have announced a new European region in Ireland.

This will give reduced latency (300%) and better performance. More regions will be coming later this year.

Atlassian have also confirmed that they will continue to invest in areas of key concern for customers of the cloud: data privacy, security, and compliance. This is why they moved to AWS earlier this year, giving them better flexibility and fail-over options.

If you’re interested in migrating to Europe, you can sign up here.

More language support

Atlassian is working to drastically increase the number of supported languages for JIRA and Confluence.

The number will increase from 9 to 22, while Trello already supports over 20 languages.

A new design experience

This is the one we’re most excited about! Long overdue too.

The biggest ever UI redesign for Atlassian Cloud products is underway. It has already been introduced to some cloud customers a few weeks ago.

A new, simplified experience will be at the forefront of this initiative with:

• new warmer colours and fonts;
• streamlined navigation with a new sidebar across all products;
• better search and create functionality;
• better experience across all devices.

We only have a few poor resolution photos of what Confluence and JIRA will look like, but the Bitbucket revamp gives a taster of what the rest of the products will look like. Suffice to say that JIRA boards will become a lot less cluttered and will introduce massive UX improvements for end-users.

Atlassian Home

Atlassian also ran us through the new Atlassian Home with a centralised access point across all products.

To make it even better, Atlassian are opening it up to 3rd party integrations. It’s being rolled out as we speak across Cloud customers, so watch this space!