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New Apps in the 500 Club! – March 2021
Welcome to the new Apps in the club! When we started our analysis over a year ago, we wanted to understand if there was any major Pareto effect in the marketplace. Also we needed a way to determine who we should prioritize in adding to our categories. As a reminder vendors self select their categories on the Atlassian Marketplace. It’s certainly democratic yet it can mean if you want to know who the real players are in any category, there is a lot of “noise”.
Appfire + Mohami – The strategy? Not just apps but skills and talent too
Appfire is accelerating their growth in the developer tools space with the acquisition of Mohami, one of the leading Atlassian vendors of developer-orientated apps. As Figure 1 shows, Mohami is by far the largest maker of Bitbucket apps with over twice the number of instances of its closest competitor.
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[Webinar] Integrated ITSM – Beyond JSM – April 15, 2021
Watch our Integrated ITSM – Beyond JSM webinar. We will show how Service Management can be a fully “enmeshed” capability with other enterprise processes.
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New Apps in the 500 Club! – February 2021
Welcome to the new Apps in the club! When we started our analysis over a year ago, we wanted to understand if there was any major Pareto effect in the marketplace. Also we needed a way to determine who we should prioritize in adding to our categories. As a reminder vendors self select their categories on the Atlassian Marketplace. It’s certainly democratic yet it can mean if you want to know who the real players are in any category, there is a lot of “noise”.
Webinar – Atlassian Apps Category Report – Confluence – April 1, 2021
Watch this webinar on Confluence as a collaboration and documentation platform. What are the most popular apps? What are the fastest growing apps? What are some of the most important use cases? Understanding these questions will help you understand whether you’re getting the most out of your Confluence platform.
Webinar – An In Depth Review of Integration Apps for Jira
As the fastest growing category on the Marketplace, Jira users are increasingly recognizing the time saving and productivity boosting potential that integration applications have. In this category report we outline the wide array of integration apps available to Jira users while also giving our take on the most popular and fastest movers in this space.
Tempo – 10 habits for a successful 2021
Tempo – 10 habits for a successful 2021 – The eBook contains much valuable insight on topics such as “Motivate your employees to track time” and “Keep remote employees engaged with these simple practices”.
Did you know? – 16 Interesting Facts about the Atlassian Marketplace
Did you know? – The Atlassian Marketplace can be an overwhelming place at times with over 1,500 vendors offering nearly 4,000 apps. Furthermore, with app self-categorization it can be hard to find what you’re really looking for when you search for, say, a diagramming or reporting application. This is where Blended Perspectives’ Marketplace Analytic Research Service (MARS) comes in.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – January 2021
Welcome to the new Apps in the club! When we started our analysis over a year ago, we wanted to understand if there was any major Pareto effect in the marketplace. Also we needed a way to determine who we should prioritize in adding to our categories. As a reminder vendors self select their categories on the Atlassian Marketplace. It’s certainly democratic yet it can mean if you want to know who the real players are in any category, there is a lot of “noise”.
Webinar – Accessibility + more for Atlassian Products
This webinar highlights one main use case – accessibility using Unstoppable from Addteq. Making Jira and Confluence more accessible to all users is very important because by law in many jurisdictions it must be so on public and internal web sites; so why not Atlassian?
Administration Apps – Atlassian Marketplace Category Report
Using our MARS database we have created the following quantitative analysis of the Administration sector of the Atlassian Marketplace. MARS (Marketplace Analytic Research Service) is our database for tracking third party apps and we have over two years worth of detailed information on the marketplace. If you’re interested in a customized marketplace report then let us know.
Time is Money! And here are 77,000 reasons why. Time Management Category Report Jan 2021
Time Management Category Report – Imagine if people actually knew that staff were perhaps spending many hours dealing with bureaucracy, delays and problems rather than genuinely value added work? Yet this is just masking the political problem. Time management (aka timesheets) which is based around the work actually being done is critical to understanding what is enabling or blocking staff and teams from being as productive as possible. Probably one of the reasons why some 77,000 organizations are managing time in Jira.
Blended Perspectives becomes “Leadership” Member of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
Blended Perspective is proud to become a Leadership Member of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and become an active contributor to Ontario’s economic future as part of a major network of more than 60000 business leaders across the province.
Webinar – Accelerate Your Cloud Journey
Watch our webinar to learn how to accelerate your Atlassian Cloud journey. At Blended Perspectives, we regularly perform much more complex migrations: supported and unsupported apps, custom workarounds, data clean up, and of course, finally getting you to the cloud. If you’re considering migrating to Cloud, you’ll be able to learn from our experience including tips and tricks.
Rethink your service desk for a fraction of the price.
Jira Service Management brings together dev, IT operations, and business teams to respond to business changes and deliver outstanding service desk experiences fast with the best ITSM practices, like request, incident, problem, change, and configuration management.
Re-imagining GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance)
Risk management is going on in varying degrees with varying effectiveness all over most organizations. The problem is its too decentralized and inaccessible to any formal GRC group. We believe there is a better way.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – December 2020
Welcome to the new Apps in the club! When we started our analysis over a year ago, we wanted to understand if there was any major Pareto effect in the marketplace. Also we needed a way to determine who we should prioritize in adding to our categories. As a reminder vendors self select their categories on the Atlassian Marketplace. Its certainly democratic yet it can mean if you want to know who the real players are in any category, there is a lot of “noise”.
Appfire – Still On Fire!
On December 22nd Appfire made its 5th major takeover of 2020 acquiring Artemis Software and its suite of apps. The takeover of Artemis strengthens Appfire’s app portfolio, particularly in Publishing (MultiExcerpt) and Collaboration (Survey and Vote Macros).
Webinar – Risky Business? Launching a Fully Integrated Enterprise GRC Solution
Watch our webinar to learn about the Blended GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) solution based on the Atlassian Jira and Confluence platforms. Synthesis GRC includes full functionality including risk management, compliance functionality, control management, extensive reporting, audit support and self service portals for compliance and security attestations.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – November 2020
Welcome to the new Apps in the club! When we started our analysis over a year ago, we wanted to understand if there was any major Pareto effect in the marketplace. Also we needed a way to determine who we should prioritize in adding to our categories. As a reminder vendors self select their categories on the Atlassian Marketplace. Its certainly democratic yet it can mean if you want to know who the real players are in any category, there is a lot of “noise”.
Webinar – Atlassian Product Portfolio: The Changes, The Present and The Future
Watch our webinar for a reader’s digest of all the changes in the Atlassian world plus the major acquisitions and moves in the app marketplace. There is no doubt that Atlassian is moving to a cloud first future.
Service Management Strategies in the New Virtual World – itSMF Canada; November 30 – December 1, 2020
Miles Faulkner, CEO at Blended Perspectives will be discussing the evolution of ITIL 4 to date – this will include our view of the framework, its implications, challenges as well as service management adoption so far.
Appfire – On Fire!
Appfire’s spree of smart acquisitions this year has transformed the vendor, already the largest in the marketplace, into the major player in a number of key categories.
Webinar – ITIL 4: The Promise vs The Reality
Watch this news breaking webinar Miles Faulkner and George Spalding discuss the evolution of ITIL 4 and Atlassian’s Jira Service Management. It’s been nearly a year now since we had Troy DuMoulin with us to discuss velocity across the enterprise and we wanted to revisit ITIL 4’s progress to date.
Jira Service Management – What You Need to Know
JSM (Jira Service Management) is a game changing play by Atlassian to retire JSD as a pure product and replace it with a more comprehensive overall capability to support the full ITIL spectrum.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – October 2020
Welcome to the new Apps in the club! When we started our analysis over a year ago, we wanted to understand if there was any major Pareto effect in the marketplace. Also we needed a way to determine who we should prioritize in adding to our categories. As a reminder vendors self select their categories on the Atlassian Marketplace. Its certainly democratic yet it can mean if you want to know who the real players are in any category, there is a lot of “noise”.
Webinar: Jira Align: Why It’s Such a Big Deal
Watch a conversation between Dan MacMillan, Director Channel Development and Miles Faulkner CEO, Blended Perspectives discussing the Align solution.
Jira Align is the premier Scaled Agile transformation application which works in harmony with Jira. We discuss the reasons why this solution is the tool of choice for enterprise transformations.
Toronto ACE re-boot – Jira Administration by Blended Perspectives
Toronto ACE group will host a virtual Atlassian Community Event where Blended Perspectives will have a presentation by on apps to make Jira administration easier, interesting use cases and best practices.
Blended Perspectives is a proud sponsor of 2020 TAC Fall Conference
Blended Perspectives is proud to sponsor the TAC (Toronto Agile Community) Fall Conference November 6th, 2020.
The Writing’s on the Wall for Server
As partners, we too, had guessed this was coming… Atlassian is determined to lead with their cloud offering and for those who need specific data residency or functional requirements the data center product set. Server has just three or so more years, which actually is still a very decent runway.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – September 2020
Welcome to the new Apps in the club! When we started our analysis over a year ago, we wanted to understand if there was any major Pareto effect in the marketplace. Also we needed a way to determine who we should prioritize in adding to our categories. As a reminder vendors self select their categories on the Atlassian marketplace. Its certainly democratic yet it can mean if you want to know who the real players are in any category, there is a lot of “noise”.
Webinar: BigPicture 8 Is Here! Improved Support for All Types of Planning in Enterprises
With only 1/3 of most companies IT as pure agile, hybrid planning modes are very important to ensure real time planning and portfolio management. Learn about the feedback from thousands of companies which led to this game changing new release of BigPicture 8.
New York ACE – Enterprise Agility with Jira Align and Review of Marketplace 3rd Party Apps – September 24, 2020
The September NY ACE event is all about scaling at the enterprise with the right set of tools. Expect an exciting set of talks on Jira Align and a review of the marketplace 3rd party apps. Don’t forget, it’s a virtual event so it’s BYOB!
Webinar: When you can’t see the forest for the trees – BlueCat’s evolving journey with Jira
As a development team scales up, Jira’s default ticket hierarchy (epic/story/sub-task) can lead to a project visibility problem: You can’t see the forest for the trees. Watch this webinar to learn how BlueCat visualizes their work, and tames scale and complexity.
Scripting & Automation Tools: Are they Always the Answer?
Atlassian Partners and app vendors that make and sell scripting and automation tools too often push the idea that scripting or automation are the solutions to every problem. While the usefulness of these tools is undeniable, they are not always the answer.
Webinar: Agile ITSM Advanced Asset Management
With Atlassian’s acquisition of Mindville’s Insight, Atlassian is sending a signal that it is intent on becoming the leader in the ITSM and ESM space. This webinar covers how the Insight Asset Management solution works with Jira Service Desk, the future product plans Atlassian has for Insight, how Agile ITSM is changing enterprise performance velocity and the competitive landscape.
Atlassian Acquires Insight – Asset Management Creators Mindville
On July 30th, Atlassian announced that it had acquired Mindville, creators of the incredibly popular app Insight – Asset Management. This is a fascinating, but not unexpected development.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – July 2020
Welcome to the new Apps in the club! When we started our analysis over a year ago, we wanted to understand if there was any major Pareto effect in the marketplace. Also we needed a way to determine who we should prioritize in adding to our categories. As a reminder vendors self select their...
Webinar: Real-Time Portfolio & Project Management at Rogers – Client Case Study
This webinar is a case study of how Rogers moved from a fragmented approach for Project and Portfolio Management to a consolidated platform using Confluence, Jira and Jira Service Management along with the main planning engine: BigPicture by SoftwarePlant; other apps include Comalatech’s Document Management, Insight, Eazy BI and more.
The Mobile Mystery – Why aren’t Atlassian Mobile Apps charging in this market?
Mobile Apps: Underutilised and Underappreciated? This post provides a quick summary of the state of play in the mobile Atlassian Marketplace category.
Webinar – Cost Management in Jira Cloud – How to gain visibility into project costs, revenue, and overall health in Jira
Watch an webinar where we discuss discuss the Tempo Team how to use Tempo’s new financial tracking solution – Cost Tracker for Tempo Timesheets in Jira Cloud for fluid cost tracking.
Webinar – A detailed Review of Administration Apps for Atlassian
Watch our webinar to find out all about leading apps to help make the world of supporting Atlassian easier.
McKinsey’s Double Whammy (or why aren’t you investing in the tools?)
“Double Whammy” is defined as a “two-fold blow or set back”. The first “whammy” is that according to McKinsey, only 5% of executives understand that for high performing teams, collaboration and DevOps tools are the number one contributor to achieving a 5 fold revenue improvement.
Webinar – Data Center Migration
Watch this webinar to learn our tips for migrating to Atlassian Data Center. Based on our extensive experience we lay out a roadmap starting with defining the target state through to data migration and production.
Advanced insights into Cloud migrations, beyond the playbook
Watch this webinar if you’re considering migrating to Cloud to learn from our experience.At Blended Perspectives, we regularly perform much more complex migrations: supported and unsupported apps, custom workarounds, data clean up, and of course, finally getting you to the cloud.
Blended Perspectives: Proud Sponsor of the BAtimes and PMtimes Virtual Conference
Blended Perspectives is proud to be a platinum sponsor of the upcoming BAtimes & PMtimes virtual conference happening on May 26th and 27th. BAtimes and PMtimes are great resource providers for Project Managers and Business Analysts, so we are excited to support this event and attach our name to it.
STAREAST Testing Conference follow-up survey results
On May 6th and 7th, Blended Perspectives hosted a virtual booth at the popular StarEast Testing Conference. We had a great time, and are grateful to everyone who stopped by to check it out and especially to the over 100 people who filled out our survey questions on the use of Jira in their testing processes.
Real Time PPM (Portfolio & Project Management) webinar follow-up- survey results
Our CEO Miles Faulkner hosted a webinar entitled “Real Time PPM”, and it was our best-attended webinar ever. During the presentation, we asked the attendees several questions to get a better feel for the audiences’ makeup and particular needs and interests, and below are some of the results.
Come meet Blended Perspectives’ Experts at STAREAST 2020
If you are interested to explore the latest solutions, technologies, and tools in testing come join us and check out our virtual booth on May 6-7, 2020.