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The full list of SaaS integrations: https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/integrations/ https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/integrations/ Amplitude, DataDog, Dynatrace, Go

The full list of SaaS integrations: https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/integrations/ https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/integrations/ Amplitude, DataDog, Dynatrace, Google Analytics, Infor Nexus, Marketo, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Singular, Slack, Snowflake, Trend Micro, Veeva, Zendesk. I feel like a notably missing product from this list is Jira. As horrible as it is, lots of companies use Jira for tasking so it should have been supported out the gate.

dehumanise 6y ago
just curious, why is it horrible for tasking? (and what alternative would you consider not-so-horrible?)
- degenerate 6y ago
  Jira is good for tasking, but has a clunky UI and is riddled with bugs. I mean horrible because Atlassian made it.
  - 0x6c6f6c 6y ago
    Of their products, Jira does surprisingly well for us. I dislike quite a few of their products but Jira just works for us, though some things seem to be more work than necessary to do. Some of that can be blamed on company processes though.
    - csunbird 6y ago
      I actually like JIRA a lot, as long as you are not trying to customize it too much. A simple Kanban or Sprint board should be enough for 99 percent of teams, please do not try to make it more than what it should be.
nhance 6y ago
This is a far cry from the 347 available in Power Automate. Still interesting to see.
- cdolan 6y ago
  Not to mention the flexibility of custom connectors using the Power Apps API integrations. Basically you can build a “connector” to any REST/JSON API
- aledalgrande 6y ago
  wonder if they might create a market for it, like they have with Sagemaker
hanniabu 6y ago
What are some good Jira alternatives? We use Trello, but it's limited and plugins are needed for everything.
- cglong 6y ago
  I've been pretty happy using Azure DevOps for larger software projects. Disclaimer: Microsoft employee, but not affiliated with Azure DevOps
- masonhensley 6y ago
  Answer really depends on the size & culture of the organization. Clubhouse.io, Asana & PivotalTracker are nice, but a little opinionated (can be a good or bad thing depending on who you are :) ). I think where Jira really rubs people the wrong way is it's speed, particularly after someone customized it with a byzantine workflow or with dozens of views/reports and no primary source of truth for the team to use. Imagine a PM looking at one report and the dev's thinking another is "the one." A fresh Jira (Cloud verion on corp-name.atlassian.net) with out of the box Kanban board should work for most. There are some industry vertical plays out there that focus on Agency or Freelancing work.
  - jsjohnst 6y ago
    > but a little opinionated That’s exactly the problem with Jira (and honestly Bugzilla in the same way a decade ago), it tries to please everyone and thus succeeds with no one. Trying to do everything typically ends up in bloat/complication/slowness, which seems to happen disproportionately for bug tracking and cms systems.
- endgame 6y ago
  Trello's the one that rolls random people's personal accounts into the account of the business they work for, right? And refuses to give them back when asked?
  - hanniabu 6y ago
    I don't think I've experienced this issue.
theshrike79 6y ago
Jira is like Agile, it needs to be modified to the company and WAY too easy to do wrong. At its core Jira is just a tool you use to track who's working on what issue, maybe link it to your version control to see what commits have been done. BUT, then the Suits come in and start adding timesheets and reporting and 42 different categories for everything and it becomes a hellscape of forms you need to fill just to get some work done.
- tigroferoce 6y ago
  I agree 100%. I once integrated Jira in a product and it was a nightmare. Integrating is pretty straightforward, but then Jira has its own way of naming the custom fields that the user added, so you end up in making a ton of API calls to discover what are the custom fields, their name, which are mandatory, what is the data format, and so on. And don't get me started with creating a GUI so that the user can insert the data for a set of fields you don't know in advance.
- rkangel 6y ago
  Jira is a classic example of a product oriented towards how companies buy things. Every time a moderately expensive purchase is needed companies get together, write down a list of things that they need the product to do and then compare the options on the market. This process results in a 'winner' who checked the most checkboxes. It's a process that doesn't take into account the subtler more analog things we should be rating products on - basically how 'nice' they are to use (in a corporate setting I would phrase that as how 'efficient' they are to use, but it's the same thing).

dehumanise 6y ago

just curious, why is it horrible for tasking? (and what alternative would you consider not-so-horrible?)

degenerate 6y ago
Jira is good for tasking, but has a clunky UI and is riddled with bugs. I mean horrible because Atlassian made it.
- 0x6c6f6c 6y ago
  Of their products, Jira does surprisingly well for us. I dislike quite a few of their products but Jira just works for us, though some things seem to be more work than necessary to do. Some of that can be blamed on company processes though.
  - csunbird 6y ago
    I actually like JIRA a lot, as long as you are not trying to customize it too much. A simple Kanban or Sprint board should be enough for 99 percent of teams, please do not try to make it more than what it should be.

nhance 6y ago

This is a far cry from the 347 available in Power Automate. Still interesting to see.

cdolan 6y ago
Not to mention the flexibility of custom connectors using the Power Apps API integrations. Basically you can build a “connector” to any REST/JSON API
aledalgrande 6y ago
wonder if they might create a market for it, like they have with Sagemaker

hanniabu 6y ago

What are some good Jira alternatives? We use Trello, but it's limited and plugins are needed for everything.

cglong 6y ago
I've been pretty happy using Azure DevOps for larger software projects. Disclaimer: Microsoft employee, but not affiliated with Azure DevOps
masonhensley 6y ago
Answer really depends on the size & culture of the organization. Clubhouse.io, Asana & PivotalTracker are nice, but a little opinionated (can be a good or bad thing depending on who you are :) ). I think where Jira really rubs people the wrong way is it's speed, particularly after someone customized it with a byzantine workflow or with dozens of views/reports and no primary source of truth for the team to use. Imagine a PM looking at one report and the dev's thinking another is "the one." A fresh Jira (Cloud verion on corp-name.atlassian.net) with out of the box Kanban board should work for most. There are some industry vertical plays out there that focus on Agency or Freelancing work.
- jsjohnst 6y ago
  > but a little opinionated That’s exactly the problem with Jira (and honestly Bugzilla in the same way a decade ago), it tries to please everyone and thus succeeds with no one. Trying to do everything typically ends up in bloat/complication/slowness, which seems to happen disproportionately for bug tracking and cms systems.
endgame 6y ago
Trello's the one that rolls random people's personal accounts into the account of the business they work for, right? And refuses to give them back when asked?
- hanniabu 6y ago
  I don't think I've experienced this issue.

theshrike79 6y ago

Jira is like Agile, it needs to be modified to the company and WAY too easy to do wrong. At its core Jira is just a tool you use to track who's working on what issue, maybe link it to your version control to see what commits have been done. BUT, then the Suits come in and start adding timesheets and reporting and 42 different categories for everything and it becomes a hellscape of forms you need to fill just to get some work done.

tigroferoce 6y ago
I agree 100%. I once integrated Jira in a product and it was a nightmare. Integrating is pretty straightforward, but then Jira has its own way of naming the custom fields that the user added, so you end up in making a ton of API calls to discover what are the custom fields, their name, which are mandatory, what is the data format, and so on. And don't get me started with creating a GUI so that the user can insert the data for a set of fields you don't know in advance.
rkangel 6y ago
Jira is a classic example of a product oriented towards how companies buy things. Every time a moderately expensive purchase is needed companies get together, write down a list of things that they need the product to do and then compare the options on the market. This process results in a 'winner' who checked the most checkboxes. It's a process that doesn't take into account the subtler more analog things we should be rating products on - basically how 'nice' they are to use (in a corporate setting I would phrase that as how 'efficient' they are to use, but it's the same thing).