What is Atlassian?
Atlassian is a software vendor rather than one application. Jira Cloud supports team work items and configurable spaces or projects; Confluence Cloud organizes pages and live documents in spaces. Teams may connect the two, but the licensing, access rules, and workflows of each product require separate decisions.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: Jira Cloud guide, Confluence overview.
Key capabilities
- Jira: structured work records and workflows
- Confluence: spaces for pages, documents, and collaboration
- Product ecosystem: connections where configured and licensed
Define ownership, permissions, workflow states, and retention in each product. Before migrating, decide how a work item links to the documentation that explains it.
Choose the Atlassian product that matches the work: issue tracking, service management, or knowledge sharing. A broad vendor profile should not imply that every team receives the same feature set or that adoption solves a process problem.
Atlassian can connect planning and knowledge when teams configure both deliberately. The old company count and undifferentiated platform claims were omitted.
Technical details
- Access
- See vendor
- Source model
- Other license
- Founded
- 2002
- Headquarters
- Sydney, Australia and San Francisco, USA
- Pricing model
- Paid
- API
- Not specified
- Website
- www.atlassian.com ↗
What to verify for your environment
Start from the users, systems and operating responsibilities the tool needs to support.
- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms with the publisher.
- Validate deployment, data location, access control, backup and recovery requirements.
- Test integrations, export paths and a representative operational workflow before committing.
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