Overview

At a glance, the 3 editions of JIRA have different intended audiences within an organisation:

Core Features

JIRA's core feature set is the same across all editions. Features more suited to larger teams, or entire organisations, are only available in the higher editions.

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Brilliant Web Interface Award winning simplicity.
Superb issue organisation Projects and components together with chronological versions.
Issue navigator Heart of our powerful issue search engine - find the issues you need, fast.
The Dashboard JIRA's customisable portal summary of everything a user needs to know - your "issue world" in a single page.

Workflow Management

Multiple workflows allow your team to process different types of issues along different paths simultaneously.

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Customizable workflow Control the path issues follow.
Available workflows Whether issues follow one path or more.	Fixed	1	Unlimited by project and issue type
Workflow editor Interactively edit and view the workflow.

Issues Are Your World

You need to always find the most important issues in many different contexts - fast. JIRA "slices and dices" your issues like no other tool on the planet.

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Saved Filters Save searches to review, display on your dashboard or analyse.
Subscribable Filters Automatically notify yourself or your team about the issues matching a filter.
Shared filters Share filters with your team - ensure everyone is on the same page.
Multiple dashboards Personalised dashboard screens for different task contexts.

Track What You Need

JIRA comes with industry standard fields out-of-the-box, but allows you to customise and tailor your issue fields to suit your organisation.

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Custom fields Store and search for what's important to you.
Field Configurations Control the requirability and visibility of fields on each screen.	1	1	Unlimited by project and issue type
Field Screens Select what fields are available for each issue operation (e.g. create issue, resolve issue).	Global One screen per operation	By Project	By Project and issue type
Field Screen Tabs Split complex screens into multiple tabs.
Global & user column ordering Define global column sets, and users can define their own.
Per filter column ordering Specific columns for specific filters!

Security & Permissioning

Control access to projects and issues. Share specific projects or issues with your customers and partners. Govern the exact functions each user can perform within the system.

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Permission schemes Apply permissions and security across multiple projects simultaneously.
Project permissions Secure project functions on a per-group level.
Dynamic role-specific permissions Secure issues dynamically according to current assignee, project lead or reporter. Eg. allow customers to see only their issues by granting Reporter the View Issue permission.
Issue security levels Separate security levels within a project - precisely control issue access.
LDAP configurator Connect JIRA to your organisation's existing LDAP directory.

Sub-tasks

Divide and conquer! For when issues aren't enough, you need sub-tasks. Each sub-task is a full issue - it has its own issue type, workflow and assignee.

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Sub-tasks Split a single issue among your team.
Task Sequencing Sub-tasks can follow a predefined order - creating repeatable processes.

Integration With Existing Systems

JIRA does not aim to be an island within your organisation, it integrates with your existing processes and daily tools.

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Email Get updates to your inbox (HTML or text), submit issues via email and more.
RSS Up-to-date RSS feeds of every search - track project progress in your RSS aggregator.
Microsoft Excel View your issue data within Excel - allows your business analysts to play!
Remote API's SOAP, XML-RPC and REST interfaces to programmatically control JIRA.

Enterprise Flexibility

Every organisation's issue tracking needs are different - JIRA provides the flexibility to grow and adapt.

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Install JIRA plugins Expand and customise your installation for your organisation.
CVS repositories per project Allows you to spread your SCM load.	1	Unlimited	Unlimited
Project categories Organise related projects into groups.
Component leads Separate owners for each project
Project email addressing Individual emails for each project.

Licensing & Maintenance

We believe in simple, upfront and equitable licensing. Licenses are per server, not per CPU, per project or per user. For more details, see Licensing & Pricing.

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Legendary Service Our legendary service is unquestioned - no matter which edition you decide to purchase.
Unlimited users Accept no limits.
Unlimited projects You plan it, we track it.
Unlimited issues Don't stop at 1...
Upgrades A license is future-proof - 12 months of upgrades are included.
Email Support For 12 months from your date of purchase.
Priority Email & Phone Support During our business hours, 9am-6pm AEST.

Bonus

If you buy JIRA Enterprise, you get Atlassian's famous Because you've got issues t-shirt free