Appy Hours: Apptoberfest finale demo battle recap & recording 📹

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Thank you so much to everyone who joined our October Appy Hours live!

This month, we highlighted the winners of each of the 4 categories for Apptoberfest 2025: DevOps, IT Service Management, Strategy & Planning, and Teamwork & Collaboration

The featured presenters and apps included: 

• Xopero Software presenting GitProtect Backup & Disaster Recovery for Jira Cloud
• Apwide presenting Booking | Resource Reservation for Jira and JSM
• Seibert-draw.io presenting draw.io Diagrams 
• Deiser presenting Allocaty for Jira

...and the winner was: 🥳 GitProtect Backup & Disaster Recovery for Jira Cloud 🥳

Curious to learn more about the 4 apps that went head-to-head? Watch the recording below:

📹 Recording here 📹

And don't miss out on their creative and informative app demos from Apptoberfest.

 👉 GitProtect Backup & Disaster Recovery for Jira Cloud demo: 🍂 Apptoberfest’25 🍂: How backups can save you from data loss? 🦁

This brilliant demo highlights how this app can save countless hours of work and ensure that robust backup and restore procedures are seamlessly woven into your business strategy.

 👉 Booking | Resource Reservation with Apwide Booking demo: The Appterparty - Resource Reservation with Apwide Booking - Apptoberfest '25 🍻🍂

This brilliant demo highlights how this app empowers teams to maximize the value of their Jira Assets by making them easily bookable as shared resources. 

 👉 draw.io Diagrams demo: The Apptoberfest '25🍂 Challenge: A draw.io demo like no other

This demo highlights how you can diagram and collaborate seamlessly, even under pressure. 

 👉 Allocaty for Jira demo: 🍂🍻 Discover who's doing what in the “The Office” sequel: When, where, and why?

This demo showcases how teams can gain a clear overview of each teammate’s upcoming weeks of work, making it easy to spot potential overloads, allocate tasks efficiently, and keep the team’s capacity well-balanced.

👋 Until next time!

[Robert]

Wow — what an incredible wrap-up to Apptoberfest 2025! 🎉

Each demo truly captured the spirit of innovation that makes the Atlassian ecosystem so exciting.

GitProtect’s approach to data resilience was especially impressive — it’s a perfect example of how DevOps teams can build trust through automation and strong disaster recovery strategies. 🔐

Apwide’s resource booking solution showed just how powerful it can be to simplify shared asset management inside Jira — that “book your Jira assets” feature really resonated with anyone managing cross-team workloads.

draw.io once again proved why it’s a cornerstone of visual collaboration — their live diagram challenge was fun, creative, and a reminder that diagrams don’t just communicate; they inspire clarity under pressure. ✏️

And Allocaty’s intuitive workload visualization was a game-changer — helping teams balance work, spot overloads, and stay aligned without endless spreadsheets.

Huge kudos to all the presenters and to the Apptoberfest team for keeping the community connected, curious, and inspired! 🍻🍂

Already looking forward to next year’s Appy Hours — the bar just keeps getting higher! 🚀

[David Berclaz _Apwide_]

Thank you again to everyone who joined the Apptoberfest finale and to all community members who voted. The energy around the demos was incredible, and it is always inspiring to see how much creativity and passion this community brings to the ecosystem.

If you have booking use cases in your teams, feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or book a demo from the Booking App listing. I am always happy to discuss real world scenarios and help you find the best approach for resource and asset booking inside Jira.

Our beaver is also continuing his Booking Beaver Tour. If you are organizing an ACE event and want a fun guest on stage, you can now book the Booking Beaver on beaver.team

Looking forward to more great conversations with all of you!