MARS™
One of our unique offerings at Blended Perspectives is our Marketplace Analytic Research Service™ (MARS™) database of Atlassian Marketplace 3rd party apps.
At Blended Perspectives we pride ourselves on being a Solution Partner who does not make our own applications. Because of this customers and the Atlassian community as a whole can rely on us for objective, unbiased assessments of the Atlassian Marketplace. MARS™ is a key part of this. As a quantitative database covering every facet of the Atlassian Marketplace, MARS™ lets us combine our qualitative assessments of apps with the latest up to date information on a range of data driven metrics.
MARS™ contains a vast array of data from instances, reviews, and pricing, to platform, app growth, and version releases. This is all tied together at the top level through our meaningful app categorization in which, for every app over 500 instances, we carefully assigned our own categories based on the primary functionality of each app. We do this instead of using Marketplace app categorizations which are somewhat meaningless due to vendor self-selection. This means that MARS™ can give us a completely unique perspective into which apps are really excelling and driving forwards in the Marketplace.
The “Under 500 Club”
Through MARS™ we invest a lot of time and energy into analyzing apps with over 500 instances that are in our “500 Club“. We assign our own categories to these apps and then subsequently include them in all category analysis that we perform.
However, while this lets us make the most of the Pareto effect in the Marketplace (whereby the 15% of apps with over 500 instances generate 80% of all instances) it can mean that apps with under 500 instances potentially aren’t getting the credit they deserve.
That is why from now on we will be recognizing and congratulating the top 10 fastest growing apps with under 500 instances. These vendors and apps are clearly doing something right and it only seems fair that their excellence and growth be highlighted.
The Top 10
Smart Jira Forms
Vendor:
SaaSJetOctober Instance Growth: 195
Total Instances: 253
Total Users: 8070
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Gitlab Jira integration
Vendor:
GitConnectorOctober Instance Growth: 122
Total Instances: 386
Total Users: 3140
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Notion+ for Jira
Vendor:
Apps+October Instance Growth: 99
Total Instances: 218
Total Users: 1481
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Theme Extension for Jira Service Management
Vendor:
Hexygen Inc.October Instance Growth: 63
Total Instances: 417
Total Users: 193,028
Platform: Cloud, DC, Server
Product: Jira
Tricentis Test Management for Jira
Vendor:
TricentisOctober Instance Growth: 59
Total Instances: 95
Total Users: 596
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Google Sheets for Confluence - Workspace Connector
Vendor:
PresagoOctober Instance Growth: 53
Total Instances: 466
Total Users: 18,851
Platform: Cloud
Product: Confluence
Hedge: Risk Management, Risk Register & Risk Matrix for Jira
Vendor:
JexoOctober Instance Growth: 53
Total Instances: 166
Total Users: 4025
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Orderly Databases for Confluence
Vendor:
K15tOctober Instance Growth: 51
Total Instances: 286
Total Users: 9205
Platform: Cloud
Product: Confluence
Slack Integration for Jira
Vendor: Troopr.ai – Slack apps for Jira and Confluence
October Instance Growth: 50
Total Instances: 199
Total Users: 39,034
Platform: Cloud, DC, Server
Product: Jira
Colorful Labels for Jira
Vendor:
Polymetis AppsOctober Instance Growth: 48
Total Instances: 107
Total Users: 1155
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Congratulations to all of the apps and vendors featured here!
If you have any questions regarding MARS then get in touch with us at hello@blendedperspectives.com.