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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
Whole ecosystem feels increasingly hostile entirely due to Atlassian’s own actions.
It almost feels like a deliberate strategy to aggressively force all third party vendors to migrate into a currently inferior platform (Forge), which may take years to complete for some vendors. And at the same time it forces vendors to halt or throttle actual feature development, while Atlassian itself keeps expanding into the territory, which was traditionally covered by third-party apps.
And many discussions, where vendors raise legitimate concerns are eventually being swept under the rug in a manner “ignore it and maybe it will go away”, such as this one
Atlassian’s path is clear, and unfortunately, complaining or responding to yet another announcement seems pointless, as there is always a wall of false promises and vague, prepackaged replies on the other side.
At this point, the only way for vendors to make their voices heard may be through a collective action, attempting to escalate the issue to a higher management level.
Waiting around is of little use: each new announcement only makes things worse, and day by day, more vendors are affected. It’s only a matter of time before it impacts everyone’s business.
Just noticed they’ve copied the table in the middle, but changed the title from Status to Priority. Therefore there are 31 work items with “Dev in progress” priority:
We acquired Chartio in 2021 with the intent of modernizing our analytics across Atlassian, this lead to the launch of Atlassian Analytics, and the analytics platform powering our new home dashboards. We designed and built these dashboards by following well documented industry standards for modern analytics UI.
We are focused on building a thriving ecosystem around our analytics platform and are thankful to the partners that are already collaborating with us to identify net-new opportunities for the marketplace and our collective customers. We look forward to partnering with many more of you as we work to support a broad range of use cases.
Hi @AllanahMiller, really appreciate you taking the time to jump in, add more context, and engage with everyone here.
On this point – “We are focused on building a thriving ecosystem around our analytics platform” – could you help us understand what that actually means in practice for Marketplace Partners who are directly or partially impacted by this roll-out?
Also, considering the scale of impact on vendors in the “Data Analytics” category, one of the biggest on the Marketplace, where many vendors have built their entire business around the “current” Jira Dashboards, what’s the short and medium-term plan for supporting these partners?
They need clarity on what options and timelines they’re working with, especially now that this shift directly affects their business.
Would it be possible for Atlassian to share all these well documented industry standards for modern analytics UI for comparison, just to make sure there is no doubt left that all industry standard modern analytics UIs look exactly the same as that of Mindpro?
