Does Migrating from Atlassian Data Center to Cloud Seem Impossible? Four Ways an Atlassian Partner Can Lighten the Load

Atlassian Data Center instances are large and complex, super customized, or have many integrations. This can make migrating to the Cloud pretty tricky. The scale and complexity of the undertaking are a big reason companies hold out, even though they want to make the transition. 

Is this ringing a bell?

But there’s really no reason to put it off. Teaming up with an Atlassian Partner can make the move much less stressful and risky.

Here are four ways an Atlassian Partner can streamline your migration from Atlassian Data Center to Cloud.

1. They Can Take the Burden off Your Internal Team

There are a lot of brilliant, capable Atlassian Admin teams out there, but we’ve never met one that wasn’t swamped with the day-to-day of keeping an enterprise Data Center instance up and running. While they’re Data Center experts, they might not be migration or Cloud experts. Sure, they could figure out how to make it happen, but who has the time? An Atlassian Partner can ease the pressure on your internal team and make sure that everything happens when and how it’s supposed to. Your internal team will have enough on their hands serving as experts in your current instance, and that’s a heck of a contribution!

2. They Know Best Practices and Can Help You Steer Clear of Pitfalls

An Atlassian Partner has worked with many different enterprises on many different migrations. They know all the best practices, tips, and tricks. They’ve also seen all the mistakes companies have made trying to go it alone, and they can help you steer clear of common pitfalls that will cost you time, money, and maybe even your sanity.

3. They Can Coordinate with Atlassian and App Vendors

Sometimes, the use cases are so out-of-the-box that you must use the Atlassian brain trust to figure out a solution or workaround. An Atlassian Partner has a direct line into the right people and can make that happen quickly so your migration stays on track. More common, though, is that there is no direct path for migrating app data, and the vendor needs to come to the table to help figure it out. An Atlassian Partner is often in a better position to make that happen, too,

4. They Have Proprietary Tools and Can Do Custom Scripting

Atlassian provides tools for migrating from Data Center to Cloud, and while they’re pretty great, they don’t always cover all the outlying use cases you might have. Invariably, you’ll have some data from an app or a database to bring into the new instance. An Atlassian Partner will often already have proprietary tools for more common but still outlying situations. And since they know the software so well, if they don’t have what you need, they can create custom scripting if they need to. This can make your migration go a whole lot faster and smoother.

Take the Next Step in Your Atlassian Data Center to Cloud Migration

At Isos Technology, we’ve helped some of the largest enterprises with the most complex instances migrate from Atlassian Data Center to Cloud. If you’re considering migrating, Contact us today.