The Enterprise Examiner July 2021

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A monthly newsletter, all about Enterprise.

Welcome! This month, we’re kicking off the summer with a few very useful product updates and so many migrations resources - including an ultimate migrations guide, new migrations blogs and customer migration videos. With all these aids and resources, migrating to the cloud will be a dream!

And without further ado, I give you this month’s Enterprise Examiner…

Product News & Updates

COMING SOON: AN UPDATE TO RELEASE TRACKS

This month, existing Premium or Enterprise customers using release tracks can expect a change.

What’s changing?

Products on the bundled track will soon receive changes once a month. You’ve told us that you need more than 2 weeks to prepare for Atlassian changes in cloud. With changes now releasing on a monthly cadence, you will have a wider window of time to plan for every change and update that impacts your users. Admins using our products (JSW, JSM, Confluence) will receive final 2-week bundled changes on and after that, they’ll receive changes on the second Tuesday of every month.

Other important information

• The bundled track will roll out changes on the 2nd Tuesday, every month.

• You’ll receive an email with a list of the upcoming bundled track changes a month before they roll out.

• If you are also using a sandbox, those sandboxes on the preview track will get changes a month before products on the bundled track get them.

NEW IN DATA CENTER

NEW FEATURE: INSTANCE CLEANUP

Available now, you can keep your instances clutter-free and performant with Data Center’s cleanup features. Our teams have been hard at work shipping product-specific features and new resources for Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Confluence, and Bitbucket Data Center all designed to make it easy for our customers to create and execute a cleanup strategy so they can continue scaling with Atlassian and maintain team productivity.

Read the launch blog here.

UPDATE: THE NEXT LONG TERM SUPPORT RELEASE IS COMING THIS OCTOBER

This fall we will be releasing the next LTS for Jira Software 8.20 and Jira Software Management 4.20.

Long Term Support releases are designed specifically for larger, more complex instances – ones that require significant planning and effort to upgrade.

In addition to continuing to backport critical security and product bug fixes, when architecturally possible we’ll also backport all other security bug fixes to Long Term Support releases throughout its standard 2-year support window:

• Critical security bug fixes

• Critical bug fixes

• All other security bug fixes, whenever possible

ID ENTERPRISE-READY APPS WITH CLOUD FORTIFIED

THE NEW MARKETPLACE PROGRAM & BADGE

We’re making it easier for you to identify enterprise-ready cloud apps with advanced security, reliability and support. Cloud Fortified apps are enterprise-grade apps that meet Atlassian’s cloud security requirements, participate in additional opt-in cloud security programs, align performance and incident management processes with Atlassian for maximum uptime, and abide by strict support SLAs (24 hour response time, 5 days a week).

The Migration Station

BRAND NEW CONTENT ALL ABOUT CLOUD MIGRATION

FOUR BLOGS AT YOUR SERVICE

We have four brand new blogs available today that you will love!

• In the "Financial services companies are winning big with cloud migration", financial services customers who are considering cloud can take a deeper look at companies like theirs going through a cloud migration.

• With “What do CTOs think of cloud migration?”, CTOs/IT leaders (or those who report to them) can see a survey with data on migration motivation from existing Atlassian customers.

• “Business success means letting go of sunk costs” blog is a great resource to illustrate financial benefits of migrating to the cloud.

• If you have decided to migrate and need to know about the tools and resources we provide, this blog “7 tools that make your cloud migration easier (and faster)”

GUIDE: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ENTERPRISE MIGRATIONS

Enterprises require more support in their migration and have additional complexities that require careful consideration and planning. Our new whitepaper, the Ultimate Guide to cloud migrations, describes the entire migration process from an enterprise perspective. We dive into all aspects, including how to approach a migration, what support and services you can and should leverage, and how to pick the right plan to meet your needs.

Really Cool Webinars

NEW WEBINAR AVAILABLE NOW

CASTLIGHT HEALTH

Come see this on-demand webinar with Castlight Health, as they talk about how they expanded their cloud footprint, and introduced new productivity tools to their entire organization. In this webinar, you’ll hear Eric Raymand, Sr. Manager of Business Technology at Castlight, share how they shifted an entire organization off legacy systems to the cloud (including an evaluation of over 50 apps!), the benefits of cloud and how Atlassian’s platform can help your organization, and their team’s most used Jira cloud feature.

Debating whether to move to cloud? Check out this webinar and share it here: Castlight Health’s Journey to the cloud | Atlassian.

BRAND NEW RESOURCES ABOUT ATLASSIAN ACCESS

Cloud security is a topic we know everyone is looking for more information on. To help meet that need, we have some great new content aimed to help you better understand cloud security at Atlassian.

• Whitepaper: Secure, but practical: Why organizations are embracing multiple authentication policies

• Blog: Zero Trust security, explained

• Web page: Easy-to-search resources

• Blog: How Atlassian helps manage shadow IT with Automatic Product Discovery

CUSTOMER REFERENCE VIDEOS

Did you miss Team '21? Here are some great new customer story videos from Splunk, de Volksbank, and Northwestern Mutual.

• What I wish I'd known: Moving Splunk’s 10,000 users to cloud

• Insuring the future: Northwestern Mutual’s journey from Data Center to cloud

• Migrating in a highly regulated environment: de Volksbank’s move to the cloud

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Thanks and look out for new updates next month in the next Enterprise Examiner  .

[Kishan Sharma]

Thank you for bringing up new cleanup features for DC, will definitely make it easy for busy admins ;)

[Huwen Arnone _Deiser_]

Thanks for sharing this sum-up; it is very complete. Very complete. 

We (DEISER) are thrilled because this week, our app Projectrak got the "Fortified Cloud" badge, and I'm definitively checking those Cloud migration articles; there's still a lot to learn about that journey.

Thank you 😍

[Venkat Patchigolla]

+1 for cleanup features in DC. We would love to see the cleanup features maturing to a good state (covering the majority of the config elements) and help companies save some serious $$$ purchasing third-party plugins for clean-up and hygiene.

[Svenja Lorenzen]

Thank you for the updates! I love these overviews - they're so helpful!

[Kishan Sharma]

I can see retention rules for Confluence is coming soon, any tentative timeline by when it will be available ? Thank you!

[Suvradip Paul]

Thanks for the updates! Love to see these details.

Cheers
Suvradip

[Çiğdem Büyükaşik]

The overviews given in a relatively short post help a lot, thanks!