Hi all,
I would like to start a discussion on the Jira Cloud licensing.
We had a question come up at our breakfast on Friday regarding a company getting a Standard, Premium and Enterprise license, and we were discussing how value delivered between each level (e.g. Standard -> Premium) often does not justify the big jump in price. You can look at the pricing chart and easily see what I mean.
I work with companies who have the same questions, and I also field such requests as "we want to know if this [tool | app | workflow | automation task ] will work for our (small) team without using production data or buying it first". You can go through the motions to get a free instance up to 10 users, import data and select 10 users, etc. but it's a pain to setup other parameters like permissions, etc.
Are there any good solutions out there to try something with Jira or the Marketplace before I buy or scale to the next level? or how can I make an informed decision other than # of users? Often I feel that Atlassian puts its paying customers in a position like similar "groupware" products where we have no choice but to pay for the next (often less valuable) level.
Thanks, John
