As July comes to a close, welcome to the final TEEM360 update of the month - your enterprise-focused roundup of everything new in the Atlassian ecosystem. This edition highlights transformative moves in cloud migration, platform security, AI innovation, and admin tooling. Whether you're leading IT strategy or scaling collaboration, these updates are packed with impact for enterprise teams.
🌍 BarmeniaGothaer Migration: Unifying Insurers on Atlassian Cloud
When Germany’s insurers Barmenia and Gothaer merged in 2024, they faced the immense challenge of aligning multiple IT environments. Their solution? Migrating thousands of employees to the Atlassian Cloud Platform, enabling unified collaboration and accelerating service delivery.
🚀 What Enterprise Customers Should Know
- Seamless Cross-Team Collaboration: The Cloud platform unified diverse teams from both organizations-from day one-improving collaboration across departments.
- Scalable Cloud Foundation: Cloud tools like Jira, Confluence, and Rovo provided the stability and flexibility required to support a rapidly growing enterprise ecosystem.
- Efficiency & Innovation Gains: According to Barış Yorgancı, Head of Workplace and Collaboration, Atlassian tools “translate directly into better service, faster delivery, and more innovation for our clients.”
- AI-Enhanced Capabilities: With Rovo integrated into the platform, BarmeniaGothaer unlocked collaborative workflows enriched by AI-powering smarter automation and insights.
🛡️ Marketplace 2.0: Atlassian Boosts Security & Trust for Enterprise Buyers
Atlassian's FY26 updates to the Marketplace Partner Program represent a strategic leap forward in ensuring enterprise-grade security, support, and scalability. With stricter compliance requirements, revenue thresholds, and partner support, the Marketplace is evolving into a more trustworthy and dependable platform-ideal for organizations with complex security and performance needs. These changes reinforce Atlassian's long-term cloud strategy and give enterprise customers greater confidence in the apps they choose.
🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:
- Enterprise-Ready Ecosystem: Only top-tier partners with proven revenue and compliance standards qualify for Platinum and Gold tiers.
- Mandatory Security Standards: Certified adherence to SOC II Type 2 or ISO27001:2022 means better data protection and risk mitigation.
- Increased Accountability: Required participation in Bug Bounty Programs ensures continuous security testing and response readiness.
- Faster, Prioritized Support: Gold and Platinum partners must meet <24-hour response time SLAs-critical for enterprise uptime.
- Aligned with Atlassian Cloud Strategy: Apps built on Forge and compliant with cloud best practices ensure seamless integration and scalability.
🛠️ Forge Platform Maturation: Unlocking Secure, Integrated DevOps for the Enterprise
Atlassian's Forge platform continues its steady rise as the future of cloud app development with key enhancements announced in July 2025. From deeper DevOps integration to more stable UI components, these updates significantly boost the reliability, performance, and customization potential of Marketplace apps built on Forge. For enterprise customers, this marks a critical inflection point-enabling the adoption of more secure, scalable, and tightly integrated solutions across Jira Software and beyond.
🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:
- Deeper DevOps Integration: New Forge modules (e.g., devops:buildInfoProvider, devops:deploymentInfoProvider) bring richer DevOps visibility directly into Jira, supporting end-to-end traceability and streamlined workflows.
- General Availability of UI Components: Newly GA components like Calendar, List, Popup, and Inline Edit are now stable, backward-compatible, and governed by a clear 6-month deprecation window-greatly reducing development risk.
- Increased Platform Maturity: Forge is emerging as a robust alternative to Connect, with enhanced security and performance aligned with Atlassian’s cloud roadmap.
- Higher App Quality Ahead: As developers shift to Forge and embrace these new modules, enterprises can expect more reliable and deeply integrated Marketplace apps.
- Future-Proof Investment: Forge's growth ensures apps built today will remain compliant and high-performing in tomorrow’s Atlassian ecosystem.
🎓 Earn Your Confluence Administration Certification Today
Atlassian has just announced the launch of the Confluence Administration certification for Cloud, aimed at helping professionals showcase their expertise in managing and configuring Confluence sites effectively.
This new certification is ideal for teams and enterprises looking to ensure they have skilled administrators who can optimize collaboration and governance across their organizations.
🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:
- Official Recognition: Validate your internal experts with a globally recognized certification from Atlassian.
- Skill Assurance: Certified admins are equipped to configure and maintain Confluence environments reliably and efficiently.
- Strong Ecosystem Support: Ties into Atlassian's broader certification initiative, including the continuing education program and new Expert designation
- Up-to-Date Standards: Aligns with Atlassian’s push for role-based credentials, offering confidence in future compatibility and platform evolution.
🧩 Streamlined Field Management for Jira Admins: Greater Efficiency & Oversight
Atlassian is rolling out a significant user interface overhaul to the Fields section within Jira’s admin pages. These improvements-currently being deployed as of early July 2025-offer enhanced visibility, unified views, and simplified management across both company‑ and team‑managed projects. Enterprise administrators can now navigate custom and system fields more intuitively, boosting governance and reducing admin effort.
🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Admins:
- All Projects in One Place: Team‑managed project fields are now integrated into the central Fields page, eliminating fragmentation between project types.
- Improved Visibility: Each field now displays its ID directly, aiding in transparency and minimizing misconfigurations.
- Simplified Field Contexts: Enterprise admins can easily manage field contexts and schemas-ideal for enforcing consistency across multiple teams and projects
- Efficiency at Scale: The unified interface streamlines tasks like auditing, cleaning up unused fields, or aligning configurations-directly addressing complexity for large Jira instances.
⚡ Pune Ignites AI Automation: Build a Forge + Rovo AI Agent in Just 2.5 Hours
Atlassian’s recent Pune Community Group event showcased the power and promise of Forge paired with Rovo, Atlassian’s AI automation platform. On July 25, 2025, eighty developers built two fully functioning apps in just five hours-demonstrating how Forge and Rovo can speed up app development workflows, including a Jira issue analyzer powered by AI.
🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:
- Rapid Prototyping in Action: Developers went from setup to fully deployed Forge apps and AI agents in under 2.5 hours-proving the platforms accelerate innovation and reduce time-to-value.
- Seamless AI + DevOps Integration: Rovo-enriched agents pulled real-time Jira data and performed analysis-perfect for automating issue triage and DevOps workflows within Jira.
- Forge Handles the Heavy Lifting: Forge’s serverless architecture abstracts infrastructure, authentication, and scaling so developers stay focused on value.
- Best Practices Shared: Community champions recommended starting with simple apps, using Forge templates, and leveraging built-in services (like storage and compute) to simplify development.
- Scaling Across the Enterprise: With guided sessions and hands-on help from Atlassian experts, the experience underscores Forge’s suitability for scalable, reliable enterprise-grade app building.
Thank you for reading - we hope you found these insights valuable and look forward to bringing you more in the next TEEM360 update.