Atlassian Cloud migration: all you need to know
Find all the essential steps and key insights for a successful transition to the cloud in one place.
Welcome to our migration hub: the place to find out everything you need to know about migrating from Atlassian Server or Data Center to Cloud.
And why should you listen to us? At Adaptavist, we’re experts in Cloud migration with all the experience and knowledge you need to make your migration go smoothly. And Atlassian thinks so too…
What you'll find in this hub
- Why you should move to Atlassian Cloud, including benefits based on your organisation's size, how the Atlassian ecosystem helps you get work done fast, and fantastic features you won't want to miss.
- How to make the move happen, including key considerations, the main stages of migration, and how we can help get you there.
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 made for all teams – from software developers and leadership to wider business teams.
Atlassian Intelligence by your side
Atlassian has embedded AI features and automation across its suite of Atlassian tools, so you have virtual assistance where you need it most.
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.
Connection to keep things moving
Using Atlassian Cloud is a cross-platform experience, with tools that connect seamlessly for a unified experience for your entire organisation.
Everything you need, no matter your size
Small businesses
(under 250 users)
You get:
- Enterprise-grade security and features without needing the right hardware or in-house expertise or resources.
- The option to scale as you grow.
- Flexible plans, so you only pay for what you need and get the most out of your investment.
Mid-sized organisations
(251–999 users)
You get:
- The option to scale as you grow.
- Easier collaboration across your organisation.
- Upgrades and infrastructure taken care of for you.
- The ability to automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks with AI.
- Simplified user management.
Enterprises
(over 1000 users)
You get:
- Your whole business on one platform, collaborating together across tools which are connected.
- A suite of tools made with your enterprise-scale needs in mind.
Get Cloud clarity with Adaptavist
Maximise your Atlassian products and licences, and reap real value from the Cloud with a little help from our experts. Reach out to find out how we can set you up for success.
Built to get work done
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, together
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.
Exclusive to Atlassian Cloud – must-have features
Atlassian is Cloud-first, which means some of its greatest features are only found there. Check out some of our favourites and find out how they help you get work done and grow.
Atlassian Rovo
Atlassian Rovo
You can also access Atlassian’s latest AI product 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.
- Find – search through your data, tools, and platforms (including third-party apps) to find the information you need with all your existing permissions respected.
- Learn – 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.
- Act – 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.
Atlassian Intelligence
Atlassian’s AI technology is embedded across its suite of tools on Cloud, with Jira and Confluence users in particular reaping the benefits.
In Jira, you can use Atlassian Intelligence 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 Atlassian’s latest AI product 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.
- Find – search through your data, tools, and platforms (including third-party apps) to find the information you need with all your existing permissions respected.
- Learn – 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.
- Act – 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.
Explore the roadmap
Atlassian is always innovating to bring new game-changing features to its Cloud users. So there’s a lot more where that came from.
What’s the difference between Cloud and on-prem Server and Data Center?
Cloud, first and foremost
Atlassian is a Cloud-first organisation, so innovative energy is focused on improving and introducing new features on Cloud. If you want the latest and greatest, that’s where you need to be.
Server’s not supported
Server has now been sunsetted, which means it’s no longer supported by Atlassian. For those yet to make the switch, broken features and the risk of security breaches significantly increase.
Step up from Data Center
Many customers previously on Data Center, who have already successfully migrated to Cloud, are now enjoying all the latest features as well as enterprise-grade benefits. And you could be next!
Think Cloud isn’t for you? Think again.
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 times are changing. 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. Speak to us about our Migration Assessment packages today.
Time to migrate? Find out how
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 Cloud-focused Atlassian Partner of the Year awards four years running.
- We're also an Atlassian Specialized Partner in Cloud.
Our Atlassian Cloud services
Migration assessments
A thorough Cloud assessment to scope your migration, analyse your existing environment and understand your business goals. This includes understanding your third-party app integrations, including unrivalled expertise in marketplace favourites like the ScriptRunner suite and award-winning Content Formatting Macros for Confluence.
All-in Jira and Confluence migration packages
All-in Jira and Confluence migration packages
With our migration packages we provide all the expertise you need to move your most vital tools – Jira and Confluence – to the cloud, including planning a migration that makes sense for you, testing, and ongoing support.
Cloud consulting
Cloud consulting
Maximise the benefits of Atlassian Cloud with our end-to-end consulting services. We can help you optimise Jira, Confluence, and more, through automation, tool set-up and configuration, and integrations.
On-demand Atlassian software administration
On-demand Atlassian software administration
We’re here to help you handle your Atlassian admin too. Leverage a team of expert administrators, on-demand, to manage your daily admin, recommending best practices to make the most of your applications and support day-to-day permissions and configurations.
Find out more about our Assist service
Innovative Marketplace apps
Innovative Marketplace apps
Not only can we engage with your third-party app vendors to plan how migration will work, but at The Adaptavist Group, we also offer our own suite of game-changing Atlassian Marketplace apps to transform your Cloud experience: ScriptRunner, Kolekti, and Upscale.
Cloud training
Cloud training
Discover our comprehensive training. Designed to equip you with the essential skills needed for a seamless transition to the cloud, enabling you to manage your projects efficiently.
Find out more about our training courses.
Migration assessments
A thorough Cloud assessment to scope your migration, analyse your existing environment and understand your business goals. This includes understanding your third-party app integrations, including unrivalled expertise in marketplace favourites like the ScriptRunner suite and award-winning Content Formatting Macros for Confluence.
All-in Jira and Confluence migration packages
With our migration packages we provide all the expertise you need to move your most vital tools – Jira and Confluence – to the cloud, including planning a migration that makes sense for you, testing, and ongoing support.
Cloud consulting
Maximise the benefits of Atlassian Cloud with our end-to-end consulting services. We can help you optimise Jira, Confluence, and more, through automation, tool set-up and configuration, and integrations.
On-demand Atlassian software administration
We’re here to help you handle your Atlassian admin too. Leverage a team of expert administrators, on-demand, to manage your daily admin, recommending best practices to make the most of your applications and support day-to-day permissions and configurations.
Find out more about our Assist service
Innovative Marketplace apps
Not only can we engage with your third-party app vendors to plan how migration will work, but at The Adaptavist Group, we also offer our own suite of game-changing Atlassian Marketplace apps to transform your Cloud experience: ScriptRunner, Kolekti, and Upscale.
Cloud training
Discover our comprehensive training. Designed to equip you with the essential skills needed for a seamless transition to the cloud, enabling you to manage your projects efficiently.
Find out more about our training courses.
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Maximise Cloud value with Adaptavist
Migration is about so much more than moving your data. Maximise your Atlassian products and licences, become more agile and innovative, and optimise your investment with help from our experts.
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