Testimonial and Cost Savings

"To begin with, I was somewhat apprehensive about using an Atlassian Partner; my concern was that they would see me as a blank chequebook. That hasn’t been my experience, my experience with the partner program has been very good. When I joined the company, our US instance of Atlassian with 150 devs had about 600 users, our Australian instance had about 800 users, we had about 6 Statuspages, 6 Opsgenies, 2 Confluences, 2 Jiras, and the list goes on. The goal was to get the global multinational onto a single set of tools, and this was not easy - we tried to do this clean up internally.

EG did some spend analysis on our environment and figured out we were spending about US$550k/year. EG figured out that through a basic clean-up, some consolidation and a migration to enterprise licenses, we could drop this by about US$220k/year. In reality, it was very challenging work to do - we tried ourselves. Our team broke it once, backed out, and engaged Elegance Group who moved it the second time. We’re now in the process of moving the 6 OpsGenie instances down to probably 2 JSM Premium instances - that’s savings us over US$80k/year in OpsGenie licenses in exchange for about US$35-40k upgrade to the JSM licence. Again, it does end up being really complicated work - even with some really good IT automation engineers in my team, we struggled to do it internally.

After overcoming my initial concerns of being a blank chequebook - there were a number of things where it just made sense to pay EG to do it because they can do it far faster than my team can do it, and it lets my team go and work on other stuff. EG identified 5 or 6 add-ons we were paying for that were now not necessary due to the built-in functionality with the Enterprise upgrade of Jira/Confluence. That was about US$50k/year savings by eliminating those add-on subscriptions.

So in summary, what I will spend this year with EG will save me 3-4 times that amount in Atlassian licensing. But it has also led me to moving to Enterprise, consolidating and retiring a lot of other products."

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