Introducing Atlassian Home Dashboards!

[AllanahMiller]

At Team’25 US we announced the open beta new Dashboards in Atlassian Home. Across every organization, teams typically oversee a variety projects, each with their own unique goals, owners, and timelines.

While business intelligence and analytics solutions provide organization wide-visibility, individuals and teams still need reporting tools to simplify everyday reporting on goals and status - that’s where Home Dashboards come into play.

These dashboards unlock flexible reporting across your unique system of work, leveraging data from Atlassian apps, including Jira, JSM, Goals, Confluence all in one place. You’ll also be able to report on data from across your Marketplace and third-party DevOps tools, bringing all work data into one central place.

What’s included with these dashboards

These platform-level Dashboards deliver a modern, flexible reporting experience, elevating the existing in-product reporting experience available from many Atlassian apps:

• An all new Chart Builder: to more easily create a custom chart, simply start by selecting chart type and then the metrics they’d like to display and visualise.
• Dashboard level filters: to allow customers to quickly adjust all charts on the dashboard and look at specific data parameters on the fly.
• Grid layout & adjustable width / height charts: get more control over content placement and size, this flexibility enables charts to be laid out in a way that’s easy to comprehend, and allows customers to tell a story with data.
• Embeddable SmartLinks: to support every team’s unique system of work, and ensure dashboard owners can align teammates, it’s easy to embed widgets from over 50+ third-party apps (including Amplitude, Google Drive, Figma, and more).

Details

• These dashboards are accessible from within Atlassian Home. Any organisation can opt into dashboards via the Administration app, by first turning on Platform Experiences, then opting into the beta.
  *These are platform-level dashboards, available to customers of every edition from Atlassian Home, and Premium and Enterprise customers will have a richer feature set.
• For the duration of open beta, both Free and Standard edition customers will have access to the Premium experience of thees new Dashboards.

Extensibility

In addition to data from Atlassian apps, and third-party widgets, we’re aiming to expand on dashboard extensibility in the following ways:

1. Forge app integration - We are working to enable Forge apps to be installed into Atlassian Home. These will allow you to create and publish widgets onto our new dashboards, We will be sharing a draft of our forge modules in the coming months and will be asking for feedback and refinement via the RFC process.
2. Teamwork graph externalisation - We are enabling external developers to build connectors into the Teamwork Graph so that we can accelerate our customers’ system of work transformation. Built using Forge, these connectors will feed information from customers’ external systems into the Teamwork Graph. This would include the actual data (nouns), relationships, events and actions which can then be used to power Dashboards and allow customers to build charts natively over this Marketplace data.

We are looking for Marketplace partners to work with us in our Early Access program, to help us shape our integrations and extensibility. If this is of interest to you or your team, please get in touch - we’d love to chat amiller4@atlassian.com.

[EduardoOliveira]

I could mention all the comments already made in the last RFCs (here and here), but today I will just say that as a Marketplace Vendor “I’m super happy” with this new native feature, specially the design

It is truly inspirational and motivating to wake up every day and see the Marketplace being cannibalized a little more.

[AllanahMiller]

Thank you for your feedback, Eduardo.

We are implementing these changes to resolve over a decade of customer dissatisfaction with Atlassian’s native reporting and analytics capabilities. We recognise that these updates may be frustrating, and we are keen to collaborate with partners like you to explore new extension points and opportunities.

These dashboards will create new opportunities for partners through the externalisation of Teamwork Graph and a new Forge module. We are initiating discussions with interested partners to help shape these developments, and we would be delighted for you to participate in these conversations.

If you are interested, please send me an email at amiller4@atlassian.com, and we can arrange a time to connect.

[remie]

@AllanahMiller in the spirit of an open company, no BS, can you please make sure that Atlassian addresses the obvious likeliness between the new Atlassian Home Dashboards and MindPro?

I’m pretty sure that if monday.com blatantly copies the Jira UI, Atlassian lawyers will be making overtime to address this. Yet I guess Atlassian does not see an issue copying UI herself.

[aragot]

The likeliness is a major concern for the entire ecosystem.

It should also concern customers, because they rely on apps to complement functional areas that Atlassian isn’t involved in, and Atlassian threatens their business viability by making APIs that are barely usable (refusing to open plugin points or keeping them “Gathering interest” for 15 years), then copying the app features with access to internal APIs and opening APIs just for themselves.

I’ve actually heard vendors ask whether this should be raised with the European Commission (I don’t know the details because I don’t want to be involved in that, but the case seems blatant).

As a result, customers will get crappy apps built quickly for the duration of the platform (apps need to be rewritten for a new platform every 5 years with Atlassian, so the investment is worthless, I’ve raised it in private with Atlassian), then customers customers will be reluctant on installing new apps and relying on them.

Therefore, “we are keen to collaborate with partners like you to explore new extension points and opportunities” is not a satisfying answer and it deserves more attention.