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Atlassian helps software, IT support and business teams work together through connected software. Jira, Confluence and Jira Service Management generate most of its revenue. Customers pay subscriptions to use its software, chiefly on cloud infrastructure Atlassian provides; it also sells Data Center subscriptions for software customers run on their own premises, bundled with support and maintenance.
Customers often start with a free edition or one product used by a small team. The business depends on keeping those customers and persuading them to add paid users, upgrade or adopt more products. Sales through independent channel partners generate most of its revenue, so these partners are an important route to customers, even though no single customer accounts for a large share of revenue.
Atlassian is moving customers toward Cloud. It has stopped selling Data Center licenses to new customers and plans to end sales to existing customers and eventually support, with limited exceptions. Retaining customers through that transition matters to its subscription business. Privacy and data-residency rules restrict where it can store, process and transfer customer data, while regulated customers may need specific cloud controls or approval before adopting its services.
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GitLab competes for the software teams that pay Atlassian to plan, coordinate and deliver software, offering development, security and delivery tools in one platform. Watch adoption of its enterprise planning add-on and paid user subscriptions for signs of competitive pressure on Atlassian’s developer tools.
monday.com competes for teams’ software subscriptions against Atlassian’s Trello in work management, Jira in software development and Jira Service Management in service workflows. Its development and service products are the ones to watch for pressure on Atlassian, rather than its CRM and marketing offerings.
ServiceNow competes with Atlassian’s Jira Service Management for enterprise spending on software that manages IT services and workflows.
Microsoft competes for Atlassian’s software customers through GitHub and Azure DevOps for developer teams, while its collaboration products overlap with Atlassian’s workplace software.
Asana competes with Atlassian’s Trello and broader work-management tools for teams paying to organize projects, tasks and company-wide initiatives. Watch whether its larger customers expand their spending as teams take the platform into more uses.
Freshworks competes for companies buying IT service-management software, with Freshservice facing Atlassian’s Jira Service Management. Freshservice product news is more directly relevant to that rivalry than news about its Freshdesk customer-service suite.
PagerDuty competes for IT operations teams’ spending on software that coordinates incident response, where its platform overlaps with Atlassian’s Jira Service Management.
JFrog draws on the same development-tool budgets as Atlassian: teams use Atlassian to plan and collaborate, and pay JFrog to manage software packages through security checks and deployment. Watch subscriptions built around Artifactory for another view of those teams’ spending.
OpenText competes with Atlassian for enterprise customers buying software to manage content, IT operations and application delivery. Product news in those areas is more relevant to Atlassian than OpenText’s cybersecurity offerings.
Dropbox competes with Atlassian for individuals and teams paying to collaborate on content, but its storage business makes the product mix different. Watch its paid Business teams for a view of team demand, rather than treating all Dropbox subscriptions as a direct comparison.
SERVICENOW, INC. earningsNOW
ServiceNow’s report will show whether enterprises are buying and expanding IT service-management software, the budget area where it competes most directly with Atlassian’s Jira Service Management.
Look for growth in ServiceNow’s enterprise subscriptions or customer expansion, and compare it with Atlassian’s reliance on existing customers adding paid seats and adopting more products. Stronger ServiceNow spending would show that IT service-management budgets are active, but also that Atlassian faces a stronger direct rival; weaker spending would suggest less pressure in this area, not weaker demand for all Atlassian products.
Atlassian Corporation earningsThis company
Atlassian relies on subscriptions, and this report will show whether existing customers are still adding paid seats and moving to Cloud fast enough to grow that revenue.
Read subscription revenue growth alongside Cloud revenue growth. Continued subscription growth with faster Cloud growth would show that customer expansion and migration are carrying the transition. If both weaken—especially if Cloud growth slows—customer expansion or migration is not offsetting the transition’s pressure, making Cloud and AI costs harder to cover with growth.
GitLab Inc. earningsGTLB
GitLab’s report will show whether software teams are expanding developer-tool subscriptions and adopting enterprise planning, competing for the same teams and budgets as Atlassian’s developer tools.
Watch GitLab’s paid-user subscriptions and adoption of its enterprise planning add-on. Growth in both would show software teams expanding developer-tool spending and give GitLab more scope to compete for Atlassian’s share of those budgets; weakness in both would offer less evidence of that pressure, but would not establish how Atlassian’s own seat growth is doing.
