Atlassian product expansion raises fresh integration questions
Summary
Atlassian launched three new cloud-based products at its Team 22 conference this week, raising questions from some users about overlap with existing tools and integration gaps. The company also rebranded Team Central, an experimental cross-functional update tool, as an early access product dubbed Atlas this week. It also launched a tool called Compass, where users can track which teams are responsible for distributed apps and coordinate how these applications are assembled into services. Eventually, Compass will be able to exchange data with on-premises apps and customers can build their own integration through APIs in the meantime, but one user described the lack of on-premises support at launch as a surprising oversight on Atlassians part. The criticism that Atlassian has too many separate products is fair, one analyst said, but added that he has confidence the vendor will bring them together effectively in the long run.
