Jira and Jira Work Management Are Now One, Unified Tool! Is It Time to Rethink Your Asana Instance?

This year, during Team ’24, Atlassian made a major product consolidation announcement: Jira Work Management has now merged with Jira for a single solution that incorporates all the great features of both solutions.

For teams using Asana or any other project management solution, this is an inflection point—there’s no better time to in migrate to Jira, due to several key factors:

The Big Picture: Here’s What Merging Jira Work Management with Jira Means for You

• A single, unified instance - Your software, IT, and other teams can now all coexist in a single, unified Jira instance, where your teams are likely already working, which means better collaboration, reporting, and end-to-end portfolio management
  
  
• Jira Work Management features in Jira - Jira now includes Jira Work Management project management capabilities like Dependency Management, Goal Tracking, Project Boards, and much more, and teams can operate in both Kanban- and Sprint-based environments.
  
  
• Plan, track, collaborate, launch, and report like a pro! - By combining teams on a single platform and merging the Jira Work Management features that made project management a breeze, with the native integrations in Jira making for better projects from end to end. When the teams are working together and speaking the same language, silos of information are taken down.
  
  
• Get custom, get granular - Jira’s built-in process design tools and customization allow teams to operate how they operate, not a software package that forces teams to conform to it.
  
  

Key Advantages: Why Asana Users Should Make the Move to Jira

One of the most compelling reasons to make the move from Asana to Jira, especially now that Jira Work Management capabilities are built into it, is because of the native integration with other Atlassian solutions that your teams are likely already using, like Confluence, Atlas, and Jira Service Management

• Built-in document management - Asana lacks an integrated document management tool and requires users to select something like Google Docs. With Jira and Confluence, there is a native integration and recursive linking system, allowing your team's projects, dashboards, gadgets, and documents to be linked across the entire Atlassian tool suite.
  
  
• Connect teamwork across teams! - Jira’s native integration with Atlas, your teamwork directory, supports improved communication alignment. You can connect to where the work happens through embeds and smart links, tailor updates to your team needs, and share and understand the who, what, why, and how of cross-team projects.
  
  
• Tie issues to specific projects for rich context - Tie business team issues and projects to Enterprise Service Management portals, tickets, your customers, and collaborators for more rich interactions and solutioning.
  
  

Migrating to Jira Is Cost Efficient!

By making the move to Jira, you’re likely to see some cost efficiencies. Here’s how:

• Reduced licensing fees - License costs for Jira Premium are less than half the cost of Asana Advanced. Plus, you’ll get a richer feature set, including Kanban, and more than 3000 third-party apps in the Atlassian Marketplace to help fine-tune your team's needs, including project management, reporting, and integrations.
  
  
• No more duplicate spending - Chances are high that your team already is using Atlassian products, including Jira, and many of your Asana users may already have Jira and Confluence licenses. By migrating to Jira, you can obliterate duplicate spending and get a more tightly integrated and feature-rich tool. And with built-in migration tools in Jira and Asana, it has never been easier to make the shift.

While Asana to Jira migrations are straightforward in most cases, and there are tools in Jira and Asana that can assist this process, there can still be some complexities. Are you merging existing Asana and Jira teams? Do you need to transform data or make process improvements before the cutover? Does your business team need alignment and standardization at the time of migration?

Isos Technology can help! We provide comprehensive assessments of your current and future states and can map a strategy to move according to your timeline and technical needs.

If it’s time to make the move from Asana to Jira, contact us today!