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    • Akeles Top 10 Marketplace Apps in 2020

      18 January 2021
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      Atlassian, insights

      Time flies and we are in 2021 already. We crunched our sales numbers for Atlassian Marketplace Apps licenses to identify the developing trends.

      This year, we are sharing this list as we feel it may be useful to fellow Atlassian users looking to extract more value from Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket.

      From our perspective, Marketplace apps play a significant role for established instances by

      • enabling automation to improve productivity, speed or security
      • adding features to provide additional capabilities like Business Analytics, Test Automation, etc
      • organising information to provide insight and facilitate collaboration

      How is the ranking done?

      The ranking is based on the number of licenses (Server/DC/Cloud) we sold for each app in 2020.
      We felt this will be a better measure of the popularity of the app.

      In event of a tie, we go by the licensed users count, followed by the total sales for the app.

      Akeles Top 10 List

      We are pleased to share our list for 2020 voted by the end users in Singapore. While our list may not reflect their actual popularity in Atlassian Marketplace, it is an affirmation in the usefulness of the apps. 

      Congratulations to the winners.

      Top 10 Jira Apps for 2020

      S/NApp NamePublisher
      01ScriptRunner for JiraAdaptavist
      02JSU Automation Suite for Jira WorkflowsBeecom
      03Advanced Roadmaps (formerly Portfolio)Atlassian
      04eazyBI Reports and Charts for JiraeazyBI
      05Extension for Jira Service ManagementDeviniti
      06Jira Workflow ToolboxDecadis AG
      07Zephyr for Jira – Test ManagementSmartBear
      08Jira Misc Workflow Extensions (JMWE)Innovalog
      09Dynamic Forms for JiraDeviniti
      10BigPicture – Project Management & PPMSoftwarePlant

      Top 10 Confluence Apps for 2020

      S/NApp NamePublisher
      01Team Calendars for Confluence Atlassian
      02Gliffy Diagrams for ConfluenceGliffy
      03draw.io Diagrams for Confluence//SEIBERT/MEDIA – Draw.io
      04Comala Document ManagementComalatech
      05Table Filter and Charts for ConfluenceStiltsoft
      06Refined for Confluence | Sites & ThemesRefined
      07Excel for ConfluenceBob Swift Atlassian Apps
      08SAML Single Sign On SAML SSO Confluenceresolution Reichert Network Solutions GmbH
      09ScriptRunner for ConfluenceAdaptavist
      10Balsamiq Wireframes for ConfluenceBalsamiq

      Top 10 Bitbucket Apps for 2020

      S/NApp NamePublisher
      1ScriptRunner for BitbucketAdaptavist
      2Webhook to Jenkins for BitbucketMohami
      3Awesome Graphs for BitbucketStiltsoft
      4SAML Single Sign On (SAML SSO) Bitbucketresolution Reichert Network Solutions GmbH
      5Workzone: PullRequest WorkflowIzymes Pty Ltd
      6External Hooks by ReconquestReconquest
      7Jira Hooks for BitbucketDevOpsSystems Mueller
      8Sonar for BitbucketMibex Software GmbH
      9Snippets for Bitbucket ServerMohami
      10Microsoft Teams Connector for BitbucketGlobo Solutions

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    • Best Practices in Jira Administration – Be a Jira Hero ebook

      27 May 2020
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      Be a Jira Hero ebook

      This is an ebook on a collection of Jira best practices that Atlassian has gathered from Jira experts around the world.

      The title “Be a Jira Hero – A guide for Admins, by Admins” is well deserving. Therefore we recommend all Jira administrators and wannabes to read the 25 pages ebook.

      Jira Best Practices ebook

      The ebook is well-organised into different sections with short but clear snippets of wisdoms:

      1. How to keep Jira clean and simple for your users
      2. How to use issues effectively
      3. Best practices on managing Custom Fields and Screens
      4. Things to consider when building workflows
      5. Tips on managing backlog in Jira
      6. How to get people to work on the issues
      7. Best practices on designing the Jira dashboards for even more effective reporting
      8. Shortcuts & Hacks to work faster with Jira
      9. How to make use of automation to make life easier

      One Common Mistake

      For example, the book has highlighted in Tip #20 to incorporate Resolution into the workflows. We observed that a number of Jira admins who did not have formal training tends do not understand the concept of resolution. Consequently, they overlook this important step while creating new workflows. While the Jira appears to be working, the implications are some built-in reports may be inaccurate and an important piece of information is missing.

      Our Additional Jira Tip

      Dashboards are very useful if they are used correctly. Team members can have visibility on the progress and be reminded on the outstanding tasks. Furthermore, Management can have clear visibility without spending a lot of time preparing routine reports. As a result, users will understand the value of updating their tasks in Jira.

      Horizontal Bar Chart for Jira
      Multiple Filters Statistics Bar Chart Gadget
      Horse Shoe Gauge Gadget for Jira
      Horseshoe Gadget Jira

      Conclusion

      To sum up, if you are a Jira administrator, you should download the ebook and review whether you have been applying the Jira best practices.

      Download the free ebook

      There is no need to provide any email address to download the book. To add on, you may also want to check out the following resources:

      • Best practices on Jira Apps Management
      • How to protect your JIRA from viruses, missing files and performance issues
      • When do you upgrade Jira Server to Jira Data Center

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