New Cloud Apps Roundup -- August 2021
Since our last roundup in June, our developer community has added over 130 new cloud apps to the Atlassian Marketplace! The past two months we saw a particularly high number of cloud-first releases, highlighting the innovation we’re seeing for cloud across our ecosystem. Let’s take a moment to learn about a few of these new apps:
New Jira apps
Admin Kit for Jira Cloud (free)
This app takes care of site backups so admins don’t have to. Admins can set their backup cadence and rest easy knowing Admin Kit is performing backups automatically. Plus, Admin Kit remembers and displays backup links for a certain period for up to 14 days so you can view recent history.
Calculated Field for Jira Cloud
Perform routine calculations for numeric and time values in Jira with this new cloud app. Add the calculated field into Jira issues and execute automatic calculations of data in tasks. Simplify calculations for tasks like invoicing, product proposals, estimating cost to complete tasks based on time, and more.
Risk Register for Jira (free)
Risk Register helps teams identify and prioritize risks based on probability and severity, all within Jira. Manage risk on individual issues or update in bulk via this app’s powerful issue grid. Plus, with Risk Register's reports you can quickly visualize risk assessment data.
Smart Guess for Planning Poker for Jira Cloud
With Smart Guess, giving an estimate is one click away. During planning, use the Jira backlog to refine the stories you plan on implementing. From there, Smart Guess provides one-click estimates to save you time during the planning process. Smart Guess takes care to co-exist within the Jira issue, so key Jira actions are available when you need them.
Polymetis PII Protection
With PII Protection you can continuously monitor all new or updated Jira issues and comments for a variety of sensitive information like phone numbers, emails, IP addresses, credit cards, passwords and more. Admins can quickly find any occurrences of PII data and jump directly to the corresponding issue.
MoSCoW - Agile prioritization with Forge
The MoSCoW method is a prioritization technique used in SCRUM that helps you indicate which tasks MUST, SHOULD, COULD, and WON’T be completed. This app allows you to create a custom field and change priority name and color to help your team prioritize with MoSCoW.
My Issue People Map for Jira Cloud
This app shows a graph containing the list of users related to the current ticket. With My Issue People Map for Jira Cloud you no longer have to read all comments or the watchers field to check if a user is mentioned or involved in resolving the current ticket.
Personas for Jira
Build on this Marketplace Partner’s free Story Mapping for Jira with their new Personas for Jira app. With Personas for Jira, teams can build out user personas in Jira with motivations, goals, images and custom fields. Personas can be connected to Jira Issues so your user is always top of mind.
Issue Calendar for Jira (free)
Display issues from your Kanban board in a clear calendar. This app supports creating, editing, filtering, and drag-and-drop organization to display your issues (tasks, bugs, stories and subtasks) in a calendar format. You can even create issues directly from the calendar.
Elements Publish to Confluence
Create pages in Confluence with data or attachments from Jira, directly from Jira issues, manually or automatically during a workflow transition. Elements Publish to Confluence automatically links the new page to your Jira issue to save you time.
Considering Cloud? Check out the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant with enhanced app assessment features to help you identify the apps you need in cloud. App Assessment is the best way to understand what apps you’re currently using, what’s available in the marketplace, and how to make decisions on which apps to bring to cloud. Read more about how Cloud Migration Assistants are evolving to provide new ways to help you migrate your apps.
New Confluence apps
Confluence Cloud for Microsoft Teams (free)
The Microsoft Teams for Confluence Cloud app lets conversation flow in Teams while leveraging the collaborative editor and flexible organization of Confluence. Capture notes in Confluence from with a Teams meeting, automatically format and share Confluence notes in Teams, quickly search and share Confluence pages from a teams chat, and more.
Admin Kit for Confluence Cloud (free)
This app takes care of site backups so admins don’t have to. Admin Kit remembers backup links for a certain period for up to 7 days and reports the overview of storage usage across Confluence spaces and pages.
Whistle Willow for Confluence
Important not only for compliance, but also for the org's success, this solution gives your employees a secure and trusted channel for raising concerns with complete anonymity. Perform the tip review, update the status and communicate back with the reporter without risk to reveal their identity.
Markdown Macro for Confluence
This cloud version of a popular server app allows you to insert Markdown into Confluence. You can use inline markdown text or a URL in the macro to display the content on your page. The macro supports headers, tables, images, code blocks, and more, and administrators can Whitelist domains and IP addresses to control the links users insert in a macro body.
BI Dashboards in Confluence
Share data across teams in Confluence for a more informed and strategic organization. With this app, you can embed dashboards from 15 popular BI and data science tools including Datapane, Datawrapper, Google Data Studio, Looker, Knowi, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, and more. If the app doesn’t support your preferred BI tool now, this Marketplace Partner will add it on request!
Mocky Wireframe, Mockup, Prototype & Diagram
Empower everyone to draw, design, and collaborate on UI/UX, sketch, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, all within Confluence. This app allows teams to create and manage product design projects with an intuitive editor and a rich set of components. All projects are created and shared in Confluence, so there’s no need to switch applications.
EasyRead for Confluence
The EasyRead app helps you improve the readability of Confluence pages, making your pages easier to absorb for teammates and stakeholders. EasyRead scans the content of your page and provides a “global readability score” broken down by average sentence length, paragraph length, section length, page length, and Flesch Reading Ease test score.
Jira Snapshots for Confluence
Jira Snapshots empowers Confluence users with complete control over the Jira data on their page and a reliable mechanism to review older versions of the data. This Confluence integration with Jira captures data at a point in time and allows you to update, review, and compare historic changes in corresponding Jira data.
Presentation Bundle for Confluence
Presentation Bundle for Confluence contains macros to embed presentations from 8+ of your favorite presentation tools including Microsoft Powerpoint, Google Slides, Canva, Apple Keynote, Pitch, Prezi, and more. If the app doesn’t support your preferred presentation tool now, this Marketplace Partner will add it on request!
Navi - Next/Previous Pages and Pro Navigation
With Navi, you can add previous/next page buttons to easily navigate between Confluence pages. This app adds back and forward arrow buttons into the toolbar of a Confluence document and also displays a user-friendly tooltip menu for quick access to all pages for faster navigation.
TikTok for Confluence
This app allows you to insert TikTok into any Confluence page by simply pasting the TikTok URL — no need to manually start a macro. You can set custom dimensions for your video, and monitor the video’s performance in real time. Social media enthusiasts might appreciate that this partner also recently released an Instagram for Confluence Cloud app.
Considering Cloud? Check out the Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant with enhanced app assessment features to help you identify the apps you need in cloud. App Assessment is the best way to understand what apps you’re currently using, what’s available in the marketplace, and how to make decisions on which apps to bring to cloud. Read more about how Cloud Migration Assistants are evolving to provide new ways to help you migrate your apps.
Looking for more cloud apps? Well, there are lots of new apps to check out. Head to the Atlassian Marketplace to browse more of the cloud apps that have recently been added.
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