New cloud apps roundup - April and May 2020
As mentioned in my first roundup post of the year, we’ve been seeing a lot of cloud app growth on the Atlassian Marketplace. In fact, we saw an impressive trend of 2 new cloud apps every business day in the quarter from January to March and that trend is continuing so far this quarter!
With almost 100 new cloud apps since our last roundup, it’s hard to mention them all. However, I wanted to share a few standouts and why customers may be eager to give these new apps a try.
Jira and Jira Service Desk
Create on Transition for Jira.
The first of several Appfire apps to move to cloud this month and it’s a whopper. In fact, it’s actually takes features from two of their apps - Create on Transition and Update on Transition and turns it into one powerful Jira Cloud workflow app!
UserTesting - On-Demand Human Insights.
Need to pull your customer feedback together? Embed real customer feedback during the development process with this integration for UserTesting. This integration helps you stay aligned with the customer and make sure you keep their feedback front of mind during the development process.
This app can provide great insight into how your team is performing against your set SLAs and send reminders if you are close to breaching one. Start tracking your SLAs in as easy as a few minutes and then use the built-in reports so you can see how you track over time.
The colors in this calendar will make any visual person fall in love with this activity tracker. The app uses colors to show issue changes as a calendar event and even helps users identify slowly performed tasks. Filter by JQL in order to choose what tickets get shown and customize colors to highlight important statuses.
Another new Appfire cloud app, this one allows users to create custom templates for cloning operations and include (or exclude) custom fields during the cloning process. Copying everything about your ticket or epic for increased speed of operations, like watchers, links, subtasks, and estimates.
If you struggle with getting multiple tickets for the same task and need a way to merge them together easily then this app may be a good option for you. You can restrict who has the ability to merge tickets and then select which fields to merge over (including comments, custom fields, watchers, and more!).
Google Analytics in JSD (Cloud).
Quickly connect your Google Analytics to your Jira Service Desk to better understand where your customers are engaging your help desk (and where they are not). Track all your content and create custom reports for all your Jira Service Desk content.
Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code. Great even for non-technical team members to turn features on / off right from a linked Issue on your Jira board. Also add Targeting or Percentage Rules just as easily!
Are you a fan of the Pomodoro technique of time management or familiar with the concept of time-boxing? This app brings the benefits of this technique right to Jira and creates and tracks your Pomodoros and informs you when you are ready for a break. Another benefits is that it can inform your team members who is currently in a Pomorodo so you don’t get interrupted!
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.
Confluence
Resolve support tickets automatically with the Halp Answers app. The app uses customizable keyword and key phrase matching to send the right Confluence page at the right time, to auto answer tickets based off of the title of the ticket, directly from Slack.
Love tables and using Excel? This popular Appfire app has everything you need to display your Excel spreadsheets as tables in Confluence. It was recently released in cloud for the first time in June and one of the most recent new cloud apps on the list. Show Excel spreadsheets from an attachment or a URL and do more in your functional tables with auto totaling, numbering, hyperlinks, and CSV exporting!
Meetical is a fantastic new app that allows you to create Confluence meeting notes from your calendar in one click. Meeting details like the name, date, time, and attendees are automatically copied from your calendar and reoccurring meetings are grouped together so your notes will always be easy to find.
Sometimes tabs are easier than scrolling through long pages and if you’re a fan of easily identifiable sections, then you’ll like this app. The Tabs macro allows users to easily embed the macros and structure and organize your Confluence content the way you want. We all love a little flexibility 😉.
If your team uses that status function in Confluence a lot, then you’ll love this app. This handy macro (pun intended) allows users to easily modify the status of work on the go and adds a lot more colors to make your work more eye catching! Plus, no need to go into edit mode to make these changes - you can do it directly from your Confluence page.
This drag/drop workflow editor allows for easy usage, and various configurations for your statuses, approvals, and actions that enable you to create workflows of varying complexity. This app includes automation, auto-assign capabilities, and email notifications.
HuddleBot - Automatic Team Check-ins.
Constantly meeting for check-ins can become a strain on your productivity. This app helps relieve some of these issues by automating your huddles and allowing users to view and comment on the topic. Great for remote teams and creating a paper trail of your day to day work.
ProdPad integration for Confluence
A new integration for the ProdPad product, users of both tools can share roadmaps, gather feedback and keep all your team on the same page in Confluence. Collaborate and create feedback from multiple sources and your updates in ProdPad will automatically be reflected in Confluence.
Presentation Exports for Confluence
Need to create a quick presentation? This app allows you to easily create presentations out of Confluence pages in one click and then export to Powerpoint or PDF.
Mermaid Charts & Diagrams for Confluence
Include diagrams, gantt charts, and pie charts to your Confluence pages with this text based macro. The app supports several design variations to help bring some visuals to your Confluence pages.
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.
Bonus App
This integration with Snyk provides security testing throughout the Bitbucket Cloud development workflow, with scanning on pull requests and as part of your CI/CD pipeline. View detailed results in Code Insights reports from within Bitbucket Cloud and have piece of mind knowing that your code is shipping securely.
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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