Atlassian Cloud migration and transformation: everything you need to know
Beyond migration, this hub explores transformation to Atlassian Cloud to deliver maximise value.
With our FastShift Complete full cloud journey, we support every stage of your transition to Atlassian Cloud to ensure you're set up for success from the very start.
As experts in Atlassian Cloud migration and transformation, we have extensive experience and knowledge around the different elements of migrating from Atlassian Data Center to Cloud, and how to realise maximum benefits.
As an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner with award-winning cloud specialised expertise, Adaptavist supports your full cloud journey – from discovery to post-migration optimisation – taking Atlassian's FastShift programme and driving additional value with FastShift Complete.
Complete your cloud journey with FastShift Complete
Adaptavist completes your journey to Atlassian Cloud with FastShift Complete – providing cloud transformation support at every stage.
Partnering with Atlassian's FastShift programme, we provide hands-on, organisation-specific advice and support during your migration, and either side.
From initial discovery, to advanced app and third-party application migration and configuration, Adaptavist sets you up for long-term advantage on Atlassian Cloud.
Why should I move to Atlassian Cloud?
Big benefits, whatever you’re working on
Enterprise-grade for everyone
Atlassian Cloud is an enterprise-grade platform designed for all teams – from software developers and leadership to wider business teams. Everyone can collaborate seamlessly across the Atlassian Cloud Platform.
AI by your side
Optional AI features and automation across Atlassian tools give you virtual assistance where you need it most. Rovo takes this to new levels with AI-powered Search, Chat, and agents Studio.
Security without the stress
Thanks to enterprise-grade security and features, you get smooth-running software without the need to manage updates, hardware, or infrastructure.
Get your Cloud Migration Assessment
Not sure where to start? Get an Atlassian Cloud Migration Assessment for tailored advice from our migration experts.
Get work done, together
From working as one to understanding specific teams’ needs, Atlassian’s system of work is designed for enterprises and growing organisations like yours.
Make it happen
With tools that foster teamwork in your kit, like Jira, Confluence, and Loom, your whole organisation can collaborate to achieve shared goals. You can also configure everything to support the way your people work.
Tools for every team
Whether you’re a software developer or HR expert, marketing whizz or in the leadership team, Atlassian’s ecosystem has everything you need to get your job done (and theirs too), while keeping you all on the same page.
Manage, create, and communicate with ease
Jira’s great for managing work and understanding dependencies between projects. While Confluence organises all your ideas in one place, connecting teams and content. And Loom transforms communication with async video messaging.
Don't miss out on great cloud benefits
Atlassian Rovo
Atlassian Rovo
You can also access Rovo to find exactly what you need in the context that's relevant to you, without needing to switch tools. Built around three core pillars Rovo helps you find and connect your work, learn from it, and take action.
- Search – search through your data, tools, and platforms (including third-party apps) to find the information you need with all your existing permissions respected.
- Chat – unlock accurate, in-depth answers to your questions using snapshot-style knowledge cards while you're working, use Rovo Chat to ask questions and generate ideas, and demystify any jargon you don’t understand.
- Studio – lean on virtual teammates to carry out some of your workload, including creating and editing content, streamlining tasks, recommending best practice, onboarding new starters, and encouraging collaboration.
Automation and insights
Automation and insights
With Atlassian Cloud, you get advanced automation tools and insights that can have a real impact.
- In Jira you can automate repetitive processes to save so much time. There’s even a built-in no-code rule builder to help you keep Jira up to date.
- With Atlassian Cloud, Jira automation also works across all your other favourite tools, like Slack, GitHub, Bitbucket, and more.
- Get your hands on the data you need, when you need it, to help your teams work smarter, perform stronger, and keep improving.
- With a greater grasp of your progress and burndown, you can drive agility across your organisation.
AI-powered
Atlassian’s AI technology is embedded across its suite of tools on Cloud, with Jira, Confluence, and Loom users in particular reaping the benefits.
In Jira, you can use AI to translate simple prompts into JQL queries, making it faster to find issues; quickly and easily create automated workflows; and edit existing content or generate something new.
In Confluence, you can leverage AI to enhance teamwork and improve content creation, including summarising pages and blogs; ask questions about your content; understand confusing lingo; generate and improve content using prompts; and make your content more interactive with Smart Links.
Atlassian Rovo
You can also access Rovo to find exactly what you need in the context that's relevant to you, without needing to switch tools. Built around three core pillars Rovo helps you find and connect your work, learn from it, and take action.
- Search – search through your data, tools, and platforms (including third-party apps) to find the information you need with all your existing permissions respected.
- Chat – unlock accurate, in-depth answers to your questions using snapshot-style knowledge cards while you're working, use Rovo Chat to ask questions and generate ideas, and demystify any jargon you don’t understand.
- Studio – lean on virtual teammates to carry out some of your workload, including creating and editing content, streamlining tasks, recommending best practice, onboarding new starters, and encouraging collaboration.
Automation and insights
With Atlassian Cloud, you get advanced automation tools and insights that can have a real impact.
- In Jira you can automate repetitive processes to save so much time. There’s even a built-in no-code rule builder to help you keep Jira up to date.
- With Atlassian Cloud, Jira automation also works across all your other favourite tools, like Slack, GitHub, Bitbucket, and more.
- Get your hands on the data you need, when you need it, to help your teams work smarter, perform stronger, and keep improving.
- With a greater grasp of your progress and burndown, you can drive agility across your organisation.
Cloud for everyone
For a long time, those in heavily regulated industries with data residency requirements and high security concerns felt unable to commit to Atlassian Cloud. But for many, times have changed. Now, many of those same businesses have successfully made the transition. So what are you waiting for?
At Adaptavist, we can help analyse your requirements and understand how Atlassian Cloud can meet your needs and more.
Planning your data migration strategy
What to consider
Before you launch into migration, all keyboards blazing, there are a few key considerations to think about.
What’s coming with you?
You might not need to migrate everything. Work through your existing apps, tools, and data to understand what you need to bring and what can be left behind. This can help ensure you’re not wasting time and resources migrating obsolete data.
What about your users?
Talk to your users to understand what they need and how migration will affect them. They might have questions about scalability, flexibility, and continuity, or specific security needs. With this knowledge in hand, you’ll have everything you need to make migration as smooth as possible.
When and how much?
Setting an estimated timeline for migration, with everyone’s commitment and the various stages built in is key for buy-in. As is a clear idea of what it currently costs to run your workload, how that will change when you move to Cloud, and where you can maximise efficiency and eliminate waste in the process.
Make migration happen, one step at a time
Migration won't happen overnight, even if you're doing a big bang approach. It's a complex process that requires a significant amount of planning and preparation, as well as effort after the fact to ensure you get the most out of your new Cloud-based home.
1. Trigger, explore, and reach out
This is probably what you're doing right now – thinking of moving to Cloud, exploring your options, and starting to involve the right people, including solution partners like Adaptavist.
2. Choose
This stage is about setting clear goals, putting them into perspective, identifying potential risks, and bringing stakeholders on board.
3. Organise
Next you’ll focus on the details, planning and preparing for migration to take place. This includes cleaning up your instances and ensuring everyone’s on the same page.
4. Migrate
This involves backing everything up, testing the migration to uncover issues, and creating a realistic and detailed migration runbook. And then the actual migration itself.
5. Support, resolve, and learn
With migration complete, it’s time to welcome users, put adequate support in place so they can follow best practice, and learn from any issues that crop up.
6. What’s next?
It’s time to make the most of your investment in Atlassian Cloud, including assessing your DevOps tools and processes and how to improve your ITSM efforts using Jira Service Management.
Adaptavist’s approach to Atlassian Cloud migration
Want to know more about what migration really looks like? Download our playbook to cloud migration success for all the details on every stage.
Make a move to the cloud with Adaptavist
Whether your migration is too complex, you have a tight timeline, you don't have the migration experience on your team, you've got limited resources, or you want to keep risk to a minimum, there are plenty of reasons you might reach out to an experienced Atlassian Solution Partner.
And here are some of the reasons you might choose Adaptavist in particular:
- We offer a bespoke solution tailored to your organisation's needs
- We've won numerous cloud-focused Atlassian Partner of the Year awards
- We're also an Atlassian Specialized Partner in cloud migration
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Maximise Cloud value with Adaptavist
Migration is about so much more than moving your data. With FastShift Complete, we maximise your cloud journey, enabling you to become more agile and innovative, and optimise your investment.