New Teamwork Platform features in Atlassian Cloud
Atlassian’s bi-annual conference, Atlassian Summit, is currently running in the US this week and it's no surprise that Stride (their new messaging app, that reimagines HipChat), Trello (a recent acquisition), and the rebrand have probably dominated mindshare.
However, in the second half of the product keynote during the “Teamwork Platform” section they announced new features to better integrate the Cloud experience that caught my attention:
Atlassian Home
We were given a sneak peak of Home at the previous Summit in Europe, but “Home” is available right now for all Cloud customers. Home provides a dashboard that integrates different Atlassian products, starting with Confluence and Jira. The current live functionality lets you search all your recent activity or jump into the native application search if you need to look further. We're told that Home is smart and it reminds me a little of the Quick Access feature in Google Drive, but we'll have see exactly how clever they have actually been able to make it.
Access Home via the app switcher or go directly to YOURDOMAIN.atlassian.net/home
Unfortunately I haven’t yet seen an option to set this as your default start page.
Integrated Profile
I'm really excited to see this. In Confluence in particular, the user profile hasn’t received a lot of attention for sometime and meanwhile other collaborative and social intranets (e.g. Jive Software and Microsoft Delve) have set a much higher benchmark. That’s all set to change with an integrated profile.
As you can see from this from this screenshot, it's also a part of the Atlassian Home. It doesn’t appear to be available just yet, but you can edit some details of your profile from Home. It also integrates with Stride presence.
I think Atlassian Home, together with the new profiles, are significant new features for Atlassian Cloud. I think they also go some way for justifying the new common interface design that has been rolling out to Cloud.
Custom Reactions & Emojis
Finally, Atlassian is adding support for custom reactions (like those found in Workplace by Facebook, so you can do more than just ‘like’ something) and emojis. This is similar to what’s already possible in HipChat and I’m sure they’ll be a lot of fun to use.
This screenshot is from JIRA, but this functionality will be available across the entire Atlassian product set.
Hey, mate. Thanks for the detailed write-up and being part of the Summit experience this year! "Unfortunately I haven’t yet seen an option to set this as your default start page." We hope to - that's the plan, just plenty of improvements we have to get to before we do that. Keep an eye out it, the teams improving it all the time!