

To help customers benefit from all of its Work Management products, Atlassian has announced Atlassian Together, a single subscription to the company’s work management products: Trello, Confluence, Atlas, Jira Work Management, and Access-which connects Atlassian products to third-party IAM (identity and access management) systems. “We believe that instead of relying on one work management tool to rule them all, what we need to do is create a system that allows teams to adopt the tools that are right for them, but to connect them so that they can be aligned, and they can be autonomous.” Atlassian Together offers single subscription to multiple products “Atlassian wants to solve these pain points, but in a way that we think is ultimately going to help customers maintain both autonomy and alignment,” Trautman said.

“The problem that we've seen though is that fundamentally, these tools fail to scale,” Trautman said, adding that the moment a "one size fits all" solution proves to be inflexible or fails to support your teams in getting their work done, employees will just go and adopt whatever else it is that helps them, leaving companies back at square one.

She said that in order to rein in some of the chaos, there’s been a subsequent rise in the push for a "one size fits all solution," which would see everyone at a company using the same work management tool, with one set of admin controls and a single set of workflows to adopt. Due to the accelerating pace of digital transformation over the last several years, many companies are now struggling to deal with the resulting sprawl of SaaS (software as a service) applications, said Erika Trautman, head of product for work management at Atlassian.
