Echoing what Candace said, I was also at Summit 2019. I spoke to a respected Atlassian solution partner who revealed that while Atlassian is making a push for orgs to consider Cloud, the portion of users on Cloud is still relatively small (less than 20%). This is attributed to the fact that many large enterprise customers still require Server or Data Center offerings for their security, customizations, and advanced marketplace applications.
The latter echoes my personal experience working for a Fortune 500 organization...there are key Confluence plugins we utilize that are not available on Cloud...yet at least. So for now, we can't consider it.
I suspect it will be years before this is a decision point for us to make. How many years, who knows, but it will be several at least. A few important things need to happen before we and other customers would feel comfortable making that transition. Given Atlassian's "Don't $&%#" the Customer!" value, I will rely on them to uphold that value statement when/if the time arises.
Of course, other software vendors are also looking to make Server to Cloud moves. Do you use Microsoft SharePoint? Microsoft is doing the same thing, offering SharePoint in the cloud as part of O365.
Hi everyone!
My name is Charlie and I work in Confluence Data Center.
We are looking to chat with customers who regularly use Confluence Data Center or Server in a non-admin capacity (creating or reviewing pages and blogs etc.) to meet with us 1:1 for one hour to help inform our upcoming product roadmap.
We will be running these sessions in June 2023. If any of your team or colleagues are interested in participating, please reach out to confluence-research@atlassian.com
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Thank you so much for helping us continue to improve and deliver value to the Confluence community!
Kinds regards,
Charlie Marriott
Senior Product Manager
Confluence Data Center