Accelerating Agility — Migrating Jira Datacentre (On-Prem) to Jira Cloud (SaaS)

Running Jira Datacenter on-prem can be a heavy lift for enterprises. Rising infrastructure costs, complex maintenance, and scaling challenges often slow teams down. From patching servers to managing clusters and integrations, maintaining high availability and security can take up significant internal resources. Moving to Jira Cloud allows organizations to offload these responsibilities to Atlassian’s SaaS platform, modernize their workflows, and focus on what really matters—delivering value faster.

This whitepaper explains why migrating from Jira Datacenter to Jira Cloud is more than a technical upgrade—it’s an opportunity to simplify operations, enhance collaboration, and accelerate innovation. Here’s what you’ll learn:

• No more infrastructure headaches: Atlassian takes care of patching, scaling, and uptime so your team can focus on delivering results.
• Faster delivery and improved agility: With continuous updates, cloud automation, and Atlassian Intelligence, workflows move more smoothly and projects get done quicker.
• Reliable performance at scale: Global availability, content delivery network (CDN) optimization, and built-in redundancy reduce downtime and risk.
• Enterprise-grade security and compliance: Features like SAML/SSO, SCIM, data residency options, and ISO/SOC compliance come ready to use.
• Seamless integrations and smarter automation: Connect easily with Confluence, Jira Service Management, Bitbucket, and use cloud-only automation to simplify everyday work.