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What if you have a product, that integrates best tools in any given category? Slack, GitHub, etc? Can this solution beat Jira?

• maratd 9y ago
  > What if you have a product, that integrates best tools in any given category? Slack, GitHub, etc? Can this solution beat Jira? No, it can't. Atlassian's tooling is used by large teams. It doesn't make sense in a small team environment. In a large team of say a dozen people, can you imagine managing accounts/permission/access to a dozen services? That's over 144 accounts, plus billing, plus all the other stuff needed to make everything play together. Nobody wants that headache. That's just the tip of the iceberg too. Atlassian already plays well with Github and other services. So you can have your cake and eat it too.
  • qaq 9y ago
    Large teams generally use SSO solution like okta, oneLogin etc. so not really an issue
    • dannyw 9y ago
      Scoped permissions, scoping or referencing the same projects, etc add additional value b
    • toomuchtodo 9y ago
      We use JIRA and Bitbucket in an org with thousands of users. AD SSO support is mandatory.
  • gautamdivgi 9y ago
    And with slack too I think. I’ve seen slack integration on my atlassian pages.
  • bonesss 9y ago
    > Atlassian already plays well with Github and other services. So you can have your cake and eat it too. This is really the benefit of Atlassians wide product funnel at the top. JIRA might be the Worst Thing Ever, but it can be configured to needs and integrates well with most-everything. In a lot of Enterprise scenarios the most win/win solution can be using JIRA as your default and master data while teams and projects are using integrated too stacks. That way your suits can have standard tooling across the board, your sensitive issues are all registered in an on-prem installation, and your dev teams are free to find The Right Thing for them. Atlassian/JIRA is a platform as much as a product. With its integration story and plugin market you don't need to swallow it whole parcel, and it's easily an industry leader in that regard.
  • Mandatum 9y ago
    This has been done for the past 30 years. Grouped and explicit permissions is a thing. Not sure why this would be any different in an integrated environment. You just need the glue.
• braderhart 9y ago
  Absolutely, however you are not picking the best tools IMO. I would look at GitLab, which has stronger project management and issue tracking integration (as well as a free self-hosted version). Another solution is to evaluate Phabricator as it has a stronger feature-set in some areas. GitLab Omnibus has Mattermost integration, but you could also look at Rocket.Chat (and in all honesty Discord is a kickass free alternative to Slack).
  • w0m 9y ago
    This is a great example of why Atlasssian is a compelling option - what's 'Best' in each category? Getting a single (supported) license that you know will work is much simpler for all.
  • sytse 9y ago
    Thanks for mentioning us. In my opinion the primary difference between Atlassian and GitLab is that they have separate applications that integrate while we have a single application https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#single-application https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#single-application
• itomato 9y ago
  No. The integrations will use Public APIs in most cases. Atlassian is free to use and invent what they need to provide a given feature. Granted, it can take years, but compared to a collection of Add ons, "beats" a mix-and-match tool set.