The year 2020, and especially its end, is the time of changes announced by the producer of Jira software. Recently, we have heard about the new licensing and support conditions for Atlassian Server products, and today (November 9, 2020), the company announced the rebranding of their Jira Service Desk. Apart from the new name – Jira Service Management, customers will receive a complex, comprehensive ticket management system. So far, Jira Service Desk has been enriched with many useful functionalities through add-ons. Now it will have them by default, which is a huge step towards meeting the needs of business customers.
Some time ago, we wrote in detail about why the Jira Service Desk is an ITSM system in this article: IT Service Management for companies. Service desk with ITIL certificate. The solution, thanks to its advanced configuration options and compliance with ITIL principles, is a popular choice for the largest global corporations that often admit its critical role in the functioning of their operations and business. Among Atlassian’s customers, using the Jira Service Desk system (Jira Service Management now), there are companies such as Square, Twitter, Airbnb, and The Telegraph.
From November 9, 2020, the Jira Service Desk system officially becomes the Jira Service Management solution. This change of name goes hand in hand with enriching the software functionality by essential add-ons. This way, a new and improved solution will provide customers with an even more advanced work environment right away.
Jira Service Management Cloud is available for all package options: Free, Standard, Premium, and Enterprise. It has much more advanced functionalities such as change management, incident management, and some improvements for DevOps teams. The new possibilities are the result of including in the system what, among others, OpsGenie offers:
Atlassian has announced further improvements coming soon::
Features adapted from OpsGenie, which were formerly available in the Cloud version only, will now apply to Jira Service Management Cloud. For server instances and Data Center, they will still require separate licenses. New capabilities related to the escalation of requests and DevOps functionalities will be available.
See also: Announcing Jira Service Management, the next generation of Jira Service Desk.
From February 2021, the licensing conditions for Atlassian products for the Server version will change. By 2024 customers using server instances will have to transfer them to the Data Center or Atlassian Cloud. Feel free to contact us – we will be happy to answer all your questions and help with creating an optimal action plan.
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