What Are Atlassian Collections?
To support their “System of Work,” Atlassian's blueprint for how teams work together, they introduced “Collections”: groupings of connected apps and AI agents that help organizations improve alignment and collaborate more effectively.
You can purchase each tool included in a Collection separately, but Collections offer a bundled pricing structure, helping organizations who want to implement and use multiple Atlassian tools reduce costs.
Teamwork Collection
The Teamwork Collection is designed to unite the whole organization under a single workspace rather than each team or department working in siloed environments with their own tools.
Included in the Teamwork Collection:
- Confluence: Consolidate institutional knowledge in a central location.
- Jira: Plan, track, and manage projects.
- Loom: Keep your global team in sync with video.
- Rovo: Automate processes and locate important context with AI.
Strategy Collection
The Strategy Collection is a set of tools built to help leaders develop enterprise strategy and map business activities to goals.
Included in the Strategy Collection:
- Focus: Connect strategy to goals.
- Align: Bring strategy and execution together.
- Talent: Get a clear view of your talent for workforce planning.
- Rovo: Automate processes with AI.
Service Collection
The Service Collection is built for any team responsible for serving employees or customers. It helps them connect teams, tools, and data to deliver better support.
Included in the Service Collection:
- Jira Service Management: Deliver great support on a connected platform.
- Customer Service Management: Improve external support processes.
- Assets: Get a view of the big picture to avoid change-related incidents.
- Rovo: Focus on the big issues and let AI handle simple, repetitive tasks.
Software Collection
The Software Collection is designed for organizations who want to deliver great software faster by improving developer experience and eliminating repetitive tasks.
Included in the Software Collection:
- Rovo Dev: Accelerate the software development lifecycle with AI assistance.
- Pipelines: Deploy software faster with CI/CD automation.
- Compass: Catalog and access key information anywhere, anytime.
- Bitbucket: Manage source code effectively.
- DX: Gain insights on developer experience and productivity.
Key Benefits of Collections
The idea behind Collections is simple: the overall strategy of aligning your organization around one system or tool set works. Here are three key benefits of introducing a system that allows for seamless integration and faster collaboration.
Streamline Cross-Functional Collaboration
Aligning your organization with a single system or toolset streamlines cross-functional collaboration by creating a unified platform where all teams can seamlessly communicate, share data, and work towards common goals.
It eliminates the inefficiencies caused by juggling multiple tools, ensuring consistent workflows, better visibility into projects, and easier access to shared resources.
Streamlining cross-functional collaboration has value for every level of the organization from the top down:
- Executives get increased visibility across the organization.
- Managers get a clearer view of projects and can keep their teams on track.
- Individual contributors can collaborate and share knowledge more effectively, and they can understand how their role fits into the bigger picture.
Enhance Cross-Functional Collaboration with Technical Diagramming
While not included as part of a Collection, Gliffy is an add-on for Confluence that fits perfectly into the system you’re developing with Atlassian.
With Gliffy, you can build technical diagrams directly in Confluence, with no additional licenses or logins. This means your diagrams are all created and stored in your team’s workspace, making them an accessible resource for cross-functional collaboration.
When it comes to enhancing collaboration, diagramming allows your team to visualize technical processes, project workflows for handoffs, and more, all directly in your Atlassian environment.
Improve Time to Value
When individuals and teams work together with fewer silos, they can deliver projects faster and increase project success rates.
Integrated tools like Collections also eliminate the need for manual data transfers and complex custom integrations, allowing teams to focus on delivering results rather than troubleshooting compatibility issues.
Improve Time to Value with Native Diagramming
With an Atlassian-native diagramming tool like Gliffy, teams can create, edit, and share diagrams directly within Confluence pages, ensuring that all visual workflows, documentation, and project details are centralized in one place.
Additionally, native tools leverage Confluence's permissions and version control, ensuring that diagrams are always up-to-date and accessible to the right stakeholders. This reduces delays caused by miscommunication or outdated visuals.
By keeping everything within the Atlassian ecosystem, teams can maintain a consistent workflow, improve alignment, and accelerate decision-making, ultimately delivering value faster without the overhead of managing disconnected tools.
Maximize Return on Investment
The toolset your team uses to collaborate and accelerate productivity is a major investment, so make the most of that investment by building systems your team will want to use day after day.
By using groups of connected apps like Atlassian Collections, you decrease the mental load on your team and make it easier for them to adopt the system you’re introducing.
Integrated toolsets also help an organization maximize return on investment by reducing costs associated with managing multiple disconnected tools, such as licensing fees, training, and maintenance.
Additionally, integrated tools often scale more effectively, allowing for growth without incurring significant additional costs. This means every dollar spent contributes more directly to achieving business goals.
How Gliffy Helps You Maximize Your Return on Investment
A diagramming tool native to Atlassian, like Gliffy, works as part of your Collection to help you maximize your return on investment by seamlessly integrating into your existing environment, eliminating the need for external tools and reducing context switching.
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Atlassian Collections provide organizations with powerful, integrated toolsets designed to streamline collaboration, improve time to value, and maximize return on investment.
Whether it’s managing knowledge with Confluence, planning projects with Jira, or leveraging automation through AI tools like Rovo, Collections deliver value by ensuring that tools work together to meet organizational goals.
Additionally, tools like Gliffy further enhance these advantages by offering native diagramming capabilities within your Atlassian environment.
Is your team considering investing in Atlassian’s System of Work, especially for knowledge management use cases like the Teamwork Collection?
Try Gliffy free and see how it works with Confluence to create a cohesive, efficient environment that empowers your team to innovate and succeed.