Atlas

[Roman Mural]

Good afternoon, community!
My name is Roman, I am a project manager at NovaPost, a large international company.

1) Can you please tell me if Atlas has a trial version of Premium Atlas and how to try to test it? Maybe there are interesting demos about Atlas Premium?

2) If we have Jira Cloud Premium 1200 licenses, now we are thinking about buying Atlas Premium, how will the purchase situation look like, will it affect our number of licenses in Jira Cloud, is it possible to buy a smaller number of Atlas Premium, for example 300 licenses, or not?

3) Maybe someone has used Atlas Premium and can describe the difference between the standard, not just a description, but with clear examples or real cases?

4) Who has worked with Goals in Jira? Is it a tool of the Atlas product? How is it useful, can you please explain, preferably with live cases?

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Roman Mural ,

The feature differences between the different plans are listed right here. To add a bit more detail to the additional features from standard and enterprise plans:

• storage: you may notice that people will add attachments to project and goal updates. In a large company and an active user community, you may run into storage limitations because of that after some time;
• custom fields: in the free version, you can categorise your content with tags, very similar to labels in Confluence. If you want to add additional, structured information (like customers, departments, strategic themes, ...), custom fields may prove to be a welcome extension of the product.
• Goal scoring: Atlas goals are very much based on the OKR framework, but apart from a status indicator (on track, at risk, ...) they don't allow you to add a progress score (0.x). That it what the goal scoring feature adds from the standard plan onwards;
• Private projects: in the free plan, all your projects are accessible to all users. If you want to break silos in your organization, that's actually quite what you want. But, if your organization is running some top secret projects that only a very limited audience should be aware of ánd you still want to track updates in Atlas, it can be useful to add a permissions layer to them.
• Atlassian Intelligence: currently helps you shorten / improve your update, which may be practical if you struggle fitting everything you want to share in 280 characters.

In terms of pricing: Atlas and Jira are different products. So purchasing licenses for a paid plan of Atlas will not impact your Jira licenses, nor the other way around. It's a different subscription.

Like any Atlassian product, you can trial any paid plan for 30 days. But since I get the feeling you are exploring the product, I would recommend starting with the free plan to see how it works for your team. Being a big fan of the product myself, I know that it may require a culture change in many organizations, so I'd recommend making it work first and upgrading later. But that's just my 2 cts ...

Hope this helps!