Discussions
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Your Confluence data stays in Atlassian. But what about your Marketplace apps?
Moving to Confluence Cloud is often the result of months of planning, security reviews, and internal discussions. IT teams evaluate compliance requirements, legal departments review data protection agreements, and administrators configure data residency to ensure that company information is managed according to…
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When storing table data in the Confluence page isn't enough
Hi, I'm Mia Tamm from Simpleasyty. Some time ago, a large organization already using Simple Tables came to us with a requirement that sounded fairly simple: they liked working with tables directly in Confluence, but they didn't want the underlying table data to be stored as part of the page content. That was the challenge.…
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Are you still using Page Properties?
This story didn't start with Simple Metadata. It started with a customer. A large enterprise organization was already using Simple Tables when they came to us with a very different problem. They were preparing to move a very large Confluence environment from Data Center to Cloud. And when I say large, I mean large. Their…
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From Page Properties to a real reporting workspace in Confluence
Hi, I'm Mia Tamm from Simpleasyty, the team behind Simple Tables for Confluence. In this article I want to show a practical way to get considerably more value from existing Page Properties without changing the way teams maintain their Confluence content. If your organization has been using Confluence for a while, there is…
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Simple Tables 7.4: making data easier to understand — in more languages
I’m part of the team behind Simple Tables at Simpleasyty, and over the last few months we’ve been receiving an increasing amount of feedback from teams using Confluence in very different environments. Some of that feedback has been about features, some about usability, and some about something much more fundamental:…
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When Customer Stopped Meaning Customer
David thought the problem was solved. A few weeks earlier, a quarterly dashboard had exposed something uncomfortable: three teams were using the word Customer to mean three different things. Sales used it for companies with an active commercial relationship. Product used it for organisations already using the service.…
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The Dashboard That Lied
David had spent three weeks preparing the quarterly dashboard. He had checked the formulas, reviewed permissions, and cross-checked each figure with team pages. On the morning of the review, he opened it one last time. Everything seemed in order. Carlos arrived seven minutes late and asked a simple question: "How many…
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Your Confluence pages are already a database. We just don’t always treat them like one
Confluence is usually described as a place for documentation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. But many teams are also using it for something else: managing structured business data. Project status, owners, deadlines, departments, customers, risks, decisions, products, systems, policies, dependencies and dozens of…
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When Confluence tables become operational registers: a practical model for enterprise teams
Disclosure: I work with Simpleasyty, the team behind Simple Tables for Confluence. Many enterprise teams use Confluence pages as the working surface for governance and delivery conversations. That is usually the right instinct: the context, decisions, links, and discussion all live close to the people doing the work. The…
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Cloud compliance and trust: what customers expect from apps today
When Atlassian announced the move from Server and Data Center to Cloud, many customers had one main concern: trust. Could Cloud apps meet the same security and compliance standards that enterprises expect? In the last years, that trust has grown a lot — and one of the main reasons is the way Atlassian and vendors have…
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From Data Center to Cloud: how customers are rethinking apps
Over the last months, I have spoken with many teams who are making the move from Data Center to Cloud. It is not always an easy decision. Some teams have been running the same setup for years, with apps they know very well. Change feels risky. But what I see is interesting: once the first step is taken, many of these teams…
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Lessons learned: from consulting to building an app
For more than ten years I worked as a consultant in the Atlassian ecosystem. My days were full of projects, helping companies customize Jira or Confluence, finding the right Marketplace apps, and making everything fit together. I loved this work, but it had one characteristic: I was always in the background. Each solution…
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Choosing the right app for Tables in Confluence cloud: A comparative study
By Mia Tamm, Simpleasyty – vendor of Simple Table Why this article? Tables are everywhere in Confluence. Teams use them for project trackers, budgets, meeting notes, inventories, and countless other use cases. Yet when requirements go beyond the basics – such as filtering, calculations, grouping, or visual reporting –…
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Why tables matter in Confluence (and how apps can help)
Hi Community! If you spend time in Confluence, chances are you work with tables every day. Tables are simple, but they are also one of the most common ways to organize and share information: A team tracks tasks and deadlines. A manager checks budgets and actual spend. A product owner keeps an overview of features and…
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Building with transparency and a clear roadmap
Hi community! When we started building Simple Table for Confluence, the goal was always the same: make tables in Confluence more powerful, while keeping them simple. As a consultant for many years, I often saw teams depending on tables but struggling with the limits of the native options. They needed to organize, analyze,…
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From the shadows to the community
For more than ten years, I worked in the Atlassian ecosystem as a consultant. Most of the time I was “behind the scenes” — helping companies find and consolidate solutions through apps, but always in private projects, calls, or emails. It worked well, but something was missing. All those conversations, all that knowledge,…
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Now live: Colored Text Enums + Mode in Simple Tables for Confluence Cloud
Disclosure, I’m Mia Tamm from Simpleasyty, the team behind Simple Tables for Confluence. Two updates now live make category-heavy tables easier to read and summarize: Enum → Colored text: show the value in color without a pill or dot — cleaner for dense pages. Mode (most frequent value): use Mode in Grouping and in the…
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Are comments disappearing in the Community?
Hi everyone, I’ve noticed that some of the comments I post in the Community seem to disappear after a while. At first, I thought it was just a glitch, but it has happened a few times now. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? Could this be related to moderation or a technical problem with the platform? Thanks in…
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Simple Table for Confluence – How Are You Using It for Projects, Reports, etc?
Hello Confluence Community! 👋 I recently came across the Simple Table for Confluence app and am excited about how it supercharges Confluence tables. I’d love to hear how others are using it – what are your use cases or tips? For those unfamiliar, Simple Table is an Atlassian Marketplace app that turns raw data (CSV, JSON,…
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From the Assembly Line to Weekly Sprints: Adapting Agile for Real Results
From the Industrial Revolution to Block-Based Production The First Industrial Revolution transformed how goods were made: from slow, costly, artisanal production to machinery that multiplied output and reduced costs. Decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution brought a concept that would change manufacturing forever —…