Do I need Crowd?

Question

Do I need Crowd? We have several Atlassian-centric groups set up in AD. "Atlassian-Admins"; "Jira-Users"; "Confluence-Users", etc. These groups are the only ones connected to Crowd.

When we get a new employee or add a team mate to a project thus requiring access, they are added by the AD team to one of those groups above, then Crowd does it's thing and all is good.

I'm mainly asking this to provoke conversations. Why would I need Crowd? How would it benefit me in this situation. (other than SSO between Atlassian products - we use 4 Atlassian products). This isnt an anti Crowd question. I'm just genuinely curious.

Couldn't I simply hook up the AD groups to the apps directly, bypassing Crowd?

If you have a similar set up, I'm interested to see how you're set up. TIA

Rodrigo Bellotto Campacci · Answer

Just to summarize: in a small company (~100 users) it is probably more cheaper to integrate Jira and Confluence directly to AD and put user/password some times. Confirm?

Bruno Vincent · Answer

@Tukaram Bhukya,

That's probably because you haven't previously logged onto another Crowd integrated application (e.g. Confluence). Please read my answer to your other question: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/39984070

Tukaram Bhukya_w322na · Answer

Please help me,

I have integrated JIRA with crowd but still it pops up for password and user name when I try to login jira.

Please some one can explain me about it.