Jira Software Introduction

Overview

Jira Software is a suite of different products developed by Atlassian company. Originally Jira is an issue and defect tracking tool. However, its now evolved into an ecosystem that supports various kinds of use cases for the Software Teams.

They can be broadly classified into :

Jira Software Cloud
Jira Software Data Center
Jira Core Server

Note that : Atlassian is moving to cloud future and the Atlassian Jira Server products may reach end-of-support in the future.

Jira Data Center

Jira data center can be deployed on major cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. Jira Data Center provides many benefits compared to Core Server. Jira data center for mission critical projects. Benefits of Jira Data Center are:

Deployment flexibility on AWS/Azure
Built-in Disaster Recovery
Zero downtime upgrades
SAML SSO(Single Sign-On) support

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an XML based protocol to exchange authorization with an IdP ( Identity Provider )

Atlassian Products

Some of the Atlassian products are:

Jira Software – Project and Issue Tracking
Jira Work management – Jira Core cloud
Jira Service Management – ITSM ( Information Technology Service Management)
Confluence – Document Collaboration
Bitbucket – Git Code management
Jira Align – Agile planning
Trello – Project management Tool

Atlassian Products

Jira Software

Jira Software is Project and Issue tracking Software. It provides Scrum and Kanban boards, Issue tracking, reports, customizable workflows and much more.

Jira Service Management

Jira Service Management is powerful ITSM software for high velocity teams. It is built for rapid service delivery. Track work through an open and collaborative platform.