Question About Atlas Access for Non-Jira/Confluence Users

[matthew_crutcher]

Hello,

We're looking to leverage Atlas company-wide for project updates but want to avoid increasing our licensing costs.

Is it possible for users to access Atlas without adding the incurred costs that comes with having permissions for Jira or Confluence? Specifically, we’d like them to:

• Leave comments on updates
• Read project updates in Atlas
• Receive email notifications

All of this would be without granting access to other Atlassian tools used by our Product and Development teams.

Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Aaron Geister_Sentify]

@matthew_crutcher < 

Welcome to the community and I hope it finds you well.

So Atlas aka platform experience is going through some changes and getting totally integrated into the Atlassian eco-system and become the goal tracker. 

It is free and part of the Atlassian platform. So if you have a license on your site(s) you should be able to use it. I do believe you need to have a license the Atlas platform experience. This ties together not only project tracking but also goes to Workspaces and work-items (formally Jira projects and issue types.)

In most case in my experience all org users are getting some type of license like Confluence since its the center of knowledge management. 

I hope this helps but I do believe some type of license is needed. 

Here is a link to a community post about the changes and update to Atlas:
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlas-Group-articles/Atlas-is-evolving/ba-p/2686154