Where to Start with Atlassian Cloud Migration?
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The first step in preparing for migration is understanding when your current server license expires. This will determine your urgency in planning the migration. If your license is nearing expiration, consider renewing it temporarily to give yourself more time to plan effectively.
Atlassian offers a free cloud migration trial, which can provide up to 12 months of free cloud exploration based on your remaining server license time.
Why migrate to Atlassian cloud?
With Atlassian’s decision to retire its self-managed server offerings on February 15th, 2024, organizations must navigate the complexities of transitioning to cloud or data center solutions.
This decision impacted a wide range of products, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, which are integral to many organizations’ workflows. The discontinuation of support means no more technical assistance, security updates, or bug fixes for server products, leaving them vulnerable to security threats and operational inefficiencies.
The cloud decentralizes and promotes coworking, both within and outside the organization.
- Cloud encourages collaboration in global companies
- Scale faster and more affordably
- Cloud increases effectiveness and profits and lowers costs
- Act on all data, updated live and accessible for all
- Whether a private or public company, if you are following Atlassian’s journey to the cloud, TECHNIA will guide you through every step of your migration journey.
Key considerations before migration
When planning your migration to Atlassian Cloud, it’s crucial to address several key areas to ensure a smooth transition. These considerations include user management, app functionality, and compliance and security.
User management
Scalability concerns
Before migrating, evaluate the number of users your organization has. Large teams may face performance issues if the migration is not handled correctly. A phased or hybrid approach might be necessary to manage the load effectively.
User limits
Atlassian Cloud supports up to 10,000 users per instance. If your organization exceeds this limit, consider implementing a multi-cloud solution to accommodate all users without compromising performance.
App functionality and compatibility
Plugin evaluation
It’s essential to assess your existing plugins and integrations for compatibility with Atlassian Cloud. Some legacy plugins may not be supported in the cloud environment, which could impact your workflows.
Functionality trade-offs
Determine whether any reduced functionality in the cloud is manageable or if you need to seek alternative solutions. The cloud migration assistant can help identify which apps have equivalent cloud versions or require alternatives.
Compliance and security
Regulatory compliance
Ensure that your migration plan aligns with industry regulations such as HIPAA and PCI DSS. It’s crucial to verify that data flows remain secure during and after the migration process.
Security features
Compare the security features available in Atlassian’s data center and cloud options to ensure they meet your organization’s requirements. Atlassian Cloud offers built-in security protocols and compliance with GDPR, which might differ from your current setup. If you have additional concerns about your migration to the cloud, try the Atlassian migration assessment, which will provide a personalized guide to your migration requirements.
Planning your Atlassian cloud migration
Even once you’ve taken all of this into account, migrating to the cloud is still likely to be a complex transition for your organization. Especially while maintaining the high standards of your daily operations.
It typically helps to have a partner work with you to assess your requirements and figure out when the right time to move to the cloud will be, how it might affect your system integrations, and how to adopt or update your unique configurations. Having worked closely with Atlassian for more than fifteen years, our team of experts is well-positioned to advise you on the best path forward during your migration to the cloud. So, let’s take a quick look at the steps we work through with our clients to ensure minimal disruption and to achieve the optimal outcome.
Atlassian cloud assessment
We’ll work with you to determine the best time for your migration to go ahead. This includes an assessment of your on-premise instances, add-ons, legal fulfillment, and integration with your other existing tools and systems. The conditions for migrating are different for all teams and companies. We weigh in on what is business-critical, what security is needed, and data residency, among many other criteria.
Plan phase
We’ll help you choose your migration strategy and method. The method you pick will depend on your team’s unique needs for migration. Together with you, we go through the pros and cons to understand and select the best strategy and method for your team. Part of migration planning includes determining your app migration pathways or how you’ll migrate server apps and app data to the cloud.
Prep your team and site
With your plan and estimated timelines in place, start socializing the details of your migration with stakeholders and the teams who will be impacted, so your users can get started smoothly with minimal disruption to their work. This step may happen sooner for some companies, depending on the criticality of migrating products. It’s also best to establish a communications cadence for when and how often you’ll be communicating updates, so teams are informed and prepared for the change.
Atlassian cloud migration
We’ll do a test run in this phase, making sure everything is in order, figuring out how long the migration will take, and uncovering any issues before the production migration. Based on the result, we’ll plan and execute your cloud migration so that it minimizes the impact on your daily operations.
Support and consultation
The best way to avoid getting stuck in firefighting mode is preparation. Each Atlassian product deployment is unique, so we offer a breadth of services to design, implement, and optimize solutions for scale. TECHNIA provides proactive and on-demand flexible support for your business-critical Atlassian applications from experienced business consultants. We can give local 8/5 support or global 24/7 support depending on your organization.
Plan, execute, and monitor your cloud migration for Success
Picking the right migration strategy is key to getting the best out of the cloud. An intelligent approach ensures you can accelerate innovation, boost efficiency, and build a competitive advantage.
How can TECHNIA help?
TECHNIA is proud to be an Atlassian Partner. In partnership for almost 15 years as an education partner, reseller, and implementation expert. We have customers all over the globe. Our customers are in different industries, and they are usually leaders in their industries. Often, we deliver PLM solutions and provide ALM solutions with help from Atlassian products. We understand our customers and their industry so that we can help them with workflows and different processes. We can, of course, adopt the 3DEXPERIENCE to Jira connector to your needs. Customers typically have many business-critical Atlassian installations. With most of our customers, we have service and maintenance agreements. Let’s talk and see how we can take care of your Atlassian installation.
