Explore the platform apps
10 min
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to:
- Explain the platform apps and their functions
- Describe how the platform apps support teams
- Describe how Atlassian apps integrate with each other
What are platform apps?
Platform apps are pre-loaded apps that you can use across multiple purposes. You can customize and scale them to your team needs. They add on to the core functionality of Atlassian Cloud apps by providing data, automating work, and improving alignment.
The platform apps include:
- Home
- Goals
- Projects
- Teams
- Rovo
- Analytics
- Assets
- Administration
How the platform apps help your team
When work is spread across many tools, teams can lose track of priorities and progress. The platform apps help solve this by connecting them with pre-loaded apps so information stays in sync and every team is aligned.
👇 Click on the tabs below to explore how each of the platform apps help teams every day.
Home brings together what matters most for each person:
- Shows your recent work, important updates, and recommended next actions
- Highlights dashboards and views that show progress and blockers in one place
- Reduces time wasted searching across multiple apps or links
Explore a use case
A product team is preparing a major launch that spans multiple Atlassian apps:
- In Jira, engineers track the work as epics, stories, and bugs
- In Confluence, they document the launch plan, messaging, and runbooks
- In Jira Service Management, support teams prepare SLAs and incident workflows
They use the platform apps to integrate this work into a single experience:
- In Goals, the product lead creates a “Q3 Launch” goal and links it to the Jira epics and the main Confluence page. Now anyone can see how day‑to‑day tasks contribute to the launch objective.
- In Projects, they create a cross‑product project that automatically pulls in the related Jira work and Confluence pages, and share weekly status updates with stakeholders without manual slide decks.
- In Teams, the “Launch Squad” team is defined once and then associated with the launch goal, project, and work across Jira and Confluence so it’s clear who owns what.
- With Rovo Search and Chat, teammates can ask “What’s the status of the Q3 Launch?” and instantly get a summary grounded in the linked Jira work items, Confluence docs, and project status.
The platform apps act as the "glue" that integrates Atlassian apps. They help turn scattered work into a connected view of a single initiative.