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How to Overcome Blank Page Syndrome in Confluence
Confluence is a great way to align your company's information, build a knowledge base, or share ideas. From spaces for teams to gather information around a common topic to individual pages that detail a point, Confluence is a one-stop shop for building and sharing information. When it comes to...
Microsoft 365 for Jira: MARS App of the Month (October 2021)
Microsoft 365 for Jira is the number one Atlassian Marketplace add-on for integrating with Microsoft tools. Microsoft 365’s main selling point is that it allows for deep two-way integration with Outlook, Teams, & To Do – therefore giving teams operating on different tools the means with which to communicate transparently while staying on the platform they are most comfortable with.
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[Webinar] Productivity in Confluence – October 21, 2021
There are many reasons to link issues, and many ways to do so. To use Insight or not? Customers still often ask this question. Issue-linking provides the foundational capability for many of our solution blueprints, from PPM to GRC and beyond. We will review many of the key use-cases for linking issues and third-party apps that provide this functionality. We’ll cover data catalogues, asset records in Jira, requests from Service Management, and the power and limitations of object graphing.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – September 2021
Welcome to the new Apps in the 500 Club!
Made up of all Atlassian Marketplace apps with over 500 instances, the 500 Club is a key part of our Marketplace Analytic Research Service (MARS)–our database of 3rd party Atlassian Marketplace apps.
We created MARS in November 2017 because while many Atlassian Partners make their own apps, we believed that we could bring greater value by creating a quantitative and objective database on every facet of the Atlassian Marketplace.
The 7 Highlights of the Atlassian World
A lot has happened in the Atlassian world over the past 3 months. Here are our 7 biggest takeaways:The biggest news in the Atlassian world over the past three months has to be Atlassian's unbelievable Q4 earnings report on July 29th and the subsequent climb of its stock price to over $400....
How Templates Help You Structure Your Information in Confluence
With Atlassian focusing on Cloud and performance at scale on DC, how users leverage 3rd party apps is going to make a huge difference in terms of their Atlassian ROI. At Blended Perspectives we’re here to help you achieve that ROI, today and tomorrow. The Atlassian Marketplace is an incredible...
Whiteboards for Jira: MARS App of the Month (September 2021)
It’s been an awesome year for Whiteboards for Jira and the Spartez Software team! On top of Whiteboards’ 125% install growth this year, Spartez has been acquired by Appfire–a sure sign that there’s a talented team behind this app and that it’s definitely one that’ll be only growing going into the future.
Whiteboards is well suited to the new remote/hybrid work environment that we’ve all experienced and will continue experiencing so it’s no wonder that this app is growing at a remarkable rate. Despite many of the benefits that remote working can bring, meeting remotely can often fail to bring about the truly collaborative, creative, and structured meetings we all wish we were having. Whiteboards brings the benefits of in-person planning sessions but goes deeper with significant integration with Jira, real-time collaborative editing, and the ability to plan with partially distributed teams. Whiteboards’ growth figures reflect its growing popularity among dispersed teams.
The story behind Atlassian’s 81% YTD share price growth
2021 has been an incredible year for Atlassian–following the announcement of Q4 earnings on July 29th shares in Atlassian have soared through the roof hitting a high (at the time of writing) of $405 (Figure 1). In the space of as little as six weeks the stock jumped $125 on the back of a strong quarter’s results. What we’re going to explain is that this is truly encouraging for customers – because this is a huge growth stock with a massive increase in customers on an already massive scale. Its clear that when it comes to customers Atlassian is hitting it out of the park.
Why Our Clients Love Us
At Blended Perspectives, we pride ourselves on the unique ways in which we are able to help customers maximize the value of their Atlassian stack. Therefore, it’s awesome for us to get feedback from customers letting us know that what we’re doing is really making a difference to them. We’re therefore very grateful to Fabian Lim from Rogers, one of the largest telecommunications companies in Canada and a valued Blended Perspectives customer, who recently wrote a glowing recommendation about us in the Atlassian Community Forum.
Appfire + RoninPixels
Appfire have now made their 7th acquisition of the year with the July 27th announcement that Snapbytes will become part of Appfire’s ever-expanding portfolio of apps.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – August 2021
Welcome to the new Apps in the 500 Club!
Made up of all Atlassian Marketplace apps with over 500 instances, the 500 Club is a key part of our Marketplace Analytic Research Service (MARS)–our database of 3rd party Atlassian Marketplace apps.
We created MARS in November 2017 because while many Atlassian Partners make their own apps, we believed that we could bring greater value by creating a quantitative and objective database on every facet of the Atlassian Marketplace.
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[Webinar] Time is Money – Why Time Management still matters for all teams
Who are the movers and shakers, a special segment on Appfire, and the implications for customers and vendors? This webinar will cover all major categories of the marketplace including category leaders, analysis of free vs. paid, the most interesting use cases. We will be highlighting fast-moving categories and apps which will help organizations understand better how best to leverage their Atlassian investment.
Aura: MARS App of the Month (Aug 2021)
With Atlassian focusing on cloud and performance at scale on Data Center, how users leverage 3rd party apps is going to make a huge difference in terms of your Atlassian ROI. We’re here to help you achieve that ROI, today and tomorrow.
With the Atlassian Marketplace booming (instances have grown 99% from 2018 to 2021) customers are increasingly recognizing the incredible value that is available from using 3rd party apps. However, with nearly 4,000 available apps and 1.6M instances, navigating it can be difficult.
What is MARS? (And how to pick the best apples!)
With Atlassian focusing on cloud and performance at scale on Data Center, how users leverage 3rd party apps is going to make a huge difference in terms of your Atlassian ROI. We’re here to help you achieve that ROI, today and tomorrow.
With the Atlassian Marketplace booming (instances have grown 99% from 2018 to 2021) customers are increasingly recognizing the incredible value that is available from using 3rd party apps. However, with nearly 4,000 available apps and 1.6M instances, navigating it can be difficult.
Atlassian Marketplace Fastest Movers – July 2021
With Atlassian focusing on cloud and performance at scale on Data Center, how users leverage 3rd party apps is going to make a huge difference in terms of your Atlassian ROI. We’re here to help you achieve that ROI, today and tomorrow.
With the Atlassian Marketplace booming (instances have grown 99% from 2018 to 2021) customers are increasingly recognizing the incredible value that is available from using 3rd party apps. However, with nearly 4,000 available apps and 1.6M instances, navigating it can be difficult.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – July 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”.
Issue Cross-Referencing Apps Webinar Recap
Our recent webinar was on Issue Cross-Referencing Apps. There are many reasons to link issues, and many ways to do so. Furthermore, issue-linking provides the foundational capability for many of our solution blueprints, from PPM to GRC and beyond. In this webinar recap we’ll go over all of the main points from the webinar such as the key use-cases for linking issues, third-party apps that provide this functionality, data catalogues, asset records in Jira, requests from Service Management, and the power and limitations of object graphing.
Appfire + Snapbytes
Appfire have now made their 7th acquisition of the year with the July 27th announcement that Snapbytes will become part of Appfire’s ever-expanding portfolio of apps.
Category Report: Diagramming
In our “Category Report” series of blog posts we break down individual categories and look into them in a bit more depth. Today we will be looking at Diagramming apps. In MARS Diagramming apps are apps that bring diagramming and graphing functionality into Jira and Confluence
Diagramming is one of the larger marketplace categories with 81,000 instances, 94% of which are on paid apps. With the market share for paid diagramming apps at 94% (versus 64% for the marketplace as a whole) we can see that when it comes to diagramming the overwhelming majority of users believe that the added investment into a paid product is worth it.
Appfire + Spartez Software
With the takeover of Spartez Software Appfire have now made their 6th acquisition of 2021!
Spartez Software will bring 35 individuals (including 4 founders), 9 quality apps, and nearly 9,000 Marketplace instances to Appfire.
Atlassian Marketplace Fastest Movers – June 2021
With Atlassian focusing on cloud and performance at scale on Data Center, how users leverage 3rd party apps is going to make a huge difference in terms of your Atlassian ROI. We’re here to help you achieve that ROI, today and tomorrow.
With the Atlassian Marketplace booming (instances have grown 99% from 2018 to 2021) customers are increasingly recognizing the incredible value that is available from using 3rd party apps. However, with nearly 4,000 available apps and 1.6M instances, navigating it can be difficult.
Q&A with Appfire CEO Randall Ward
Appfire have been the Atlassian world’s story of 2020 and 2021 as they revolutionized the Atlassian Marketplace with a spree of acquisitions. In bringing together the apps of well known vendors such as Innovalog, Beecom, Botron, Annova, and most recently SoftwarePlant, Appfire have grown to make up over 20% of all paid Atlassian Marketplace instances!
Portal Webinar Recap
We recently ran a webinar on Portal apps for Jira and Confluence. Portal apps can be key to bringing context to work for role-workers and helping individuals feel a sense of orientation, especially in large corporate settings. Here’s a recap of all of the main points from the webinar:
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[Webinar] All Things Marketplace- 2021 Highlights – July 22, 2021
Who are the movers and shakers, a special segment on Appfire, and the implications for customers and vendors? This webinar will cover all major categories of the marketplace including category leaders, analysis of free vs. paid, the most interesting use cases. We will be highlighting fast-moving categories and apps which will help organizations understand better how best to leverage their Atlassian investment.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – June 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”.
Planning Webinar Recap
At Blended Perspectives, we’re keen to share our extensive knowledge on all things Atlassian through our webinars and we’re very happy that so many of you choose to join us both live and on-demand. However, we also recognize that in the busy work day many would be viewers struggle to find an hour to set aside. Therefore, from now on all of our webinars will be accompanied by a brief summary that covers all of the key points so no one has to miss out.
Our recent webinar was on “Planning! Planning! Planning!”. Planning is a hugely significant category and we thought that it was about time for a recap, especially with recent developments–in particular Jira Work Management. Here’s our summary of all of the main points from the webinar:
Appfire + SoftwarePlant
Appfire have made their biggest acquisition yet, acquiring SoftwarePlant, the makers of the incredibly popular BigPicture, BigGantt, and BigTemplate planning apps. The takeover of SoftwarePlant adds another 26,000 instances to Appfire’s count taking them to 185,000 total instances (13% of the entire Atlassian Marketplace). Even more remarkably, since 90% of Appfire’s instances are paid this means that in terms of just paid instances Appfire now controls 20% of the entire Atlassian Marketplace.
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[Webinar] Issue Cross-Referencing Apps – July 08, 2021
There are many reasons to link issues, and many ways to do so. To use Insight or not? Customers still often ask this question. Issue-linking provides the foundational capability for many of our solution blueprints, from PPM to GRC and beyond. We will review many of the key use-cases for linking issues and third-party apps that provide this functionality. We’ll cover data catalogues, asset records in Jira, requests from Service Management, and the power and limitations of object graphing.
Category Report: Utilities
In our “Category Report” series of blog posts, we break down individual categories and look into them in a bit more depth. Today we will be looking at Utilities.
In MARS Utilities are essentially the apps that are leftover once everything else has been categorized–the apps often have a wide range of functions and often act to make instances generally more usable.
We can see that there are a significant number of utilities on the Marketplace and that they have grown at a solid rate of around 6% this year.
Category Report: Code Management
In our “Category Report” series of blog posts, we break down individual categories and look into them in a bit more depth. Today we will be looking at Code Management apps.
In MARS Code Management apps are apps associated with Bitbucket and facilitate the better management and tracking of code activities.
MARS Report: Cloud
With Atlassian accelerating the journey to the cloud and 90% of new customers landing on the cloud we would expect to see this be reflected in the Atlassian Marketplace. Through our Marketplace Analytic Research Service (MARS) we are able to delve into the data and quantifiably measure how cloud growth is reflected in the Marketplace.
Category Report: Test Management
In our “Category Report” series of blog posts, we break down individual categories and look into them in a bit more depth. Today we will be looking at Test Management. In MARS we categorize apps that manage, automatize, and generally aid in the testing process as Test Management.
Test Management is a very significant Atlassian Marketplace category Figure 1 shows that Testing is the 3rd fastest-growing category in percentage terms with a remarkable growth of 11% this year.
Category Report: Reporting
In our “Category Report” series of blog posts, we break down individual categories and look into them in a bit more depth. Today we will be looking at Reporting apps. In MARS Reporting apps are apps that bring BI reporting into Atlassian products.
Reporting is a very significant category in the Atlassian Marketplace. As Figure 1 shows, with nearly 80,000 instances and 6% growth this year, Reporting is the 8th largest and 9th fastest growing app this year.
Webinar – Portal Apps for Confluence and Jira – June 24, 2021
Join us for a review of portal technologies for Atlassian-based environments, answering what can be a surprisingly tricky question: how role-workers can get into context to work.
Jira & Confluence are the platforms of choice for over 60,000 organizations. Worldwide, millions of knowledge workers use customized Atlassian workspaces tailored to their departmental and teams’ needs.
Atlassian Marketplace Fastest Movers – May 2021
With Atlassian focusing on cloud and performance at scale on Data Center, how users leverage 3rd party apps is going to make a huge difference in terms of your Atlassian ROI. We’re here to help you achieve that ROI, today and tomorrow.
With the Atlassian Marketplace booming (instances have grown 99% from 2018 to 2021) customers are increasingly recognizing the incredible value that is available from using 3rd party apps. However, with nearly 4,000 available apps and 1.6M instances, navigating it can be difficult.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – May 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”.
We Are Workflows
Jira is the undisputed leader in the workflows space with powerful, flexible, and customizable workflows designed to fit any initiative or project. Therefore, when ServiceNow came out with their new slogan of “Let’s workflow it.” our immediate reaction was amusement since “We already workflowed it…”
Appfire + Anova
Appfire has made their biggest acquisition so far, buying the 46 app strong portfolio of Anova Apps taking their total number of apps to 154. The takeover gives Appfire another 20,000 instances and takes their total instance count to 155,000 (11% market share). The impact of the Anova acquisition on Appfire can largely be seen in Scripting/Automation, Utilities, and Integration.
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[Webinar] Linchpin – your work HQ
Join us for a tour of Linchpin and the upcoming Linchpin Cloud – social personalized intranets that extend Confluence to coordinate larger teams, bring in the voice of corporate communications, and much more.
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[Webinar] Planning planning planning! – June 10, 2021
It’s been a while since we covered planning but it was one of our most successful webinars. So we’re gonna give you an update. There been a lot of developments in the category. The most notable being Jira Work Management. We will be doing a comprehensive review of JWM and it’s role vs. 3rd party planning apps. We have some interesting conclusions which suggest a powerful combination of both JWM and heavy-weight planning apps is the best strategy. We will also cover the latest developments in Jira Align.
Appfire + Lizard Brain
In May, Appfire made their third acquisition of the year (following their takeovers of Mohami and Bolo Software) with Lizard Brain and their 11 Atlassian Marketplace apps and 2 Trello power-ups becoming part of the Appfire family.
New Apps in the 500 Club! – April 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”.
Do you have App hesitancy? Get over it – this market is huge and growing fast…. our bubble chart proves it
We’ve all witnessed it and its possible you the reader have “App hesitancy”. Yet very large numbers of customers don’t. In fact at Blended Perspectives we believe that, as Atlassian focuses on Cloud and performance at scale on Data Center, how you leverage 3rd party apps is going to make a huge difference in terms of your Atlassian ROI.
Top Apps of 2021 (so far…)
At Blended Perspectives we believe that, as Atlassian focuses on Cloud and performance at scale on Data Center, how you leverage 3rd party apps is going to make a huge difference in terms of your Atlassian ROI.
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[Webinar] Atlassian Team 21 event recap
Watch a quick overview of all the announcements from Team 21 and highlight the most important news from around the Atlassian world.
Forming Up! ThinkTilt, the maker of ProForma, joins the Atlassian family
This Monday Atlassian acquired ThinkTilt, the maker of ProForma the widely popular form builder app.
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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