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.
Figure 1: September 2022 | Ones to Watch
The Top 10
QAlity Plus - Test Management for Jira
Vendor: SolDevelo
August Instance Growth: 89
Total Instances: 398
Total Users: 13,965
Platform: Cloud, Server
Product: Jira
Gitlab-Jira integration
Vendor: GitConnector
August Instance Growth: 63
Total Instances: 190
Total Users: 4,124
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Microsoft Teams Integration+ for Jira
Vendor: Nextup.ai
August Instance Growth: 60
Total Instances: 229
Total Users: 8,621
Platform: Cloud, Data Center
Product: Jira
Organizational Chart for Jira Cloud
Vendor: WERARE
August Instance Growth: 56
Total Instances: 132
Total Users: 4,262
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Advanced Custom Fields
Vendor: WERARE
August Instance Growth: 55
Total Instances: 71
Total Users: 83
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Attachment Manager
Vendor: WERARE
August Instance Growth: 52
Total Instances: 101
Total Users: 473
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Advanced Kanban Board
Vendor: WERARE
August Instance Growth: 48
Total Instances: 9
Total Users: 3,343
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Secure Custom Fields - Security & Permission - for Jira
Vendor: Ricksoft, Inc.
August Instance Growth: 46
Total Instances: 397
Total Users: 41,851
Platform: Cloud
Product: Jira
Trello+ for Confluence
Vendor: Apps+
August Instance Growth: 45
Total Instances: 220
Total Users: 2,773
Platform: Cloud
Product: Confluence
Google Sheets+ for Confluence
Vendor: Apps+
August Instance Growth: 43
Total Instances: 249
Total Users: 9,499
Platform: Cloud
Product: Confluence
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.