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It’s been an exciting year so far here at Automation Consultants and it doesn’t stop there as April 8thmarked the start of our third Atlassian Summit. While Atlassian themselves celebrated their tenth Summit, welcoming more than 4,000 attendees and delivering...

Managing large scale Jira instances can be very challenging. It’s hard to retain full visibility of progress and issues when there are many different projects happening at once, while a build-up of unnecessary configurations, custom fields and inactive users slows...

Performance vs Freedom One of the main challenges with managing large scale Jira instances is striking a balance between high performance and good reporting, while ensuring that teams have enough freedom to customise how they work within Jira (e.g through...

It’s safe to say it’s been an exciting couple of days, weeks and months leading up to the big reveal and here it is – Our Marketplace Apps have a colourful new look! Stepping outside of our native brand colours, each...

In February, AC attended the AppDynamics ‘Powering Agents of Transformation’ event at the Gherkin in London. The evening event consisted of a keynote speech by John Rakowski, Sr. Director of Technology Strategy at AppDynamics, followed an interview with Carl Martin,...

One of the primary benefits of Jira Software Data Center is its downtime, particularly for larger enterprises. The larger your user base, the costlier an outage becomes, so it’s worth deploying Data Center for its high availability and performance. Managing a zero...

The market for real-time communication tools has evolved significantly in the past few years – and strong competition has emerged between different platforms such as Slack and HipChat. This has paved the way for a new partnership between Slack and...

Update May 2024: Since this post was originally written, several changes regarding Jira Core have taken place. In 2021, Jira Work Management (JWM) was released, essentially as a replacement for Jira Core. Building on Jira Core’s business process management (BPM)...