Atlassian Team '25 Europe: 5 Updates You Need to Know
From Rovo innovations to new Cloud compliance measures, here are five updates you and your teams need to know, from Atlassian’s flagship European event!
1. Atlassian is investing in Cloud compliance and governance
As most of you will know, Atlassian plans to retire Data Center products by March 2029, meaning DC users will need to migrate to the Cloud. Lots of you reading this, however, may work in highly regulated industries, or have strict compliance controls, meaning the Atlassian Commercial Cloud isn’t viable for you.
Atlassian really get this challenge, and at Team ’25 Europe, Mike Cannon-Brookes (Co-Founder and CEO of Atlassian), shared that over 120 Cloud infrastructure improvements had been shipped in the last year alone.
Focusing more specifically on compliance, he announced two key updates.
Atlassian Isolated Cloud arriving in 2026
The first big news is that the Atlassian Isolated Cloud should be launching early next year – and this could be just what organizations with strict requirements need to operate safely and compliantly in the Cloud. Joining the Atlassian Commercial Cloud and Government Cloud (designed specifically for public sector organizations in the US), the Isolated Cloud will mean Atlassian now offers three Cloud hosting options.
Atlassian Cloud ‘Units’
The second announcement we’re highlighting today for you folks is the launch of ‘Units’. Designed to enhance security, governance and compliance, with Units you can isolate users, apps and data across your Cloud sites. Organizations with various subsidiaries, or client sites which need to be kept separate, might benefit from this.
You can set separate policies for each Unit, like data residency agreements, or different app access, and each will have its own teamwork graph, Rovo and AI agents. Units do not share data, enabling clear boundaries and strict governance controls.
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2. Rovo really is free for everyone now
Who remembers the big news at Team ’25 in the US earlier this year? During his keynote, Mike Cannon-Brookes shared that Rovo was going to be included in all Enterprise and Premium plans at no extra cost.
Just five months later, at Team ’25 Europe, Cannon-Brookes announced, to whoops and cheers from the crowd, that Rovo is now included in all Standard plans too!
This is worth exploring from a couple of angles. The first benefit, of course, is that now pretty much all Atlassian customers get to take Rovo out for a spin – unlocking enterprise knowledge, firing up powerful chat with context, and making use of Rovo Agents – our ‘AI Teammates’.
At a deeper level, this announcement also shows just how much Atlassian believes in Rovo and its position at the heart of the Atlassian Cloud Platform.
It’s no longer an add-on, or solely an AI innovation. Instead, Rovo powers the System of Work, connecting data, teams, work items, projects, assets, apps, third-party platforms, and more. And Atlassian has just unleashed that power to everyone. Pretty cool in our eyes – and we’ll keep close tabs on what emerges next.
If you’re building a custom Rovo Agent, remember our Compliance for Confluence REST API might come in use…
3. There’s a new collection in town
Here’s another throwback to last year, when Atlassian announced two new Collections at Team ’25: Teamwork and Strategy.
Now, the tech giant has announced the brand new Atlassian Service Collection – a selection of apps and agents designed to unlock high velocity service management across teams, resulting in more efficient processes, happier users and more satisfied end customers.
What’s included in the Atlassian Software Collection?
- Jira Service Management (JSM), Atlassian’s highly popular ITSM tool. Remember, our flagship app, Optimizer for Jira (Advanced Edition) now supports JSM sites as well – so you can bring greater governance and control to your JSM instance.
- Customer Service Management (CSM), a brand new app and now in General Availability. It’s been purpose-built for external customer-service, whereas JSM is designed for internal ITSM and employee support.
- Assets, previously part of Jira Product Discovery, and now a global Atlassian platform app.
Combined, these apps contribute to a holistic approach to employee and customer experience.
4. In fact…there’s two new collections!
Atlassian didn’t stop at Service Management. Oh no. At Team ’25 Europe, they also introduced the world to the Atlassian Software Collection.
Focused on enhancing developer productivity and satisfaction, alongside product quality, the software collection combines a range of tools into one cohesive solution.
What’s included in the Atlassian Software Collection?
- Rovo Dev, described by Atlassian as the ‘AI teammate for planning, coding, reviews, and automating repetitive work at scale’
- Bitbucket Pipelines, for scalable CI/CD automation
- Bitbucket, which will be available in both Cloud and hybrid licenses to support any of you still on Data Center
- Compass, a catalog to maintain and enhance standards and governance across your software ecosystem
- DX, a newcomer to the Atlassian Cloud Platform (Atlassian announced it was acquiring DX recently), billed as a ‘leader in engineering intelligence’.
Software development teams using Jira? Configuration got a bit out of hand?
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5. Confluence just got even cooler
There were so many product announcements and enhancements at Team ’25 Europe that we can’t list them all here – but as so many of you are Confluence fans, we thought we’d dedicate our last update today to the collaborative workspace we all know and love.
Let’s start with speed. During the keynote, Rajeev Rajan, CTO of Atlassian, shared that Confluence is now twice as fast as it was. Loom has also been more tightly integrated, meaning you can create a Loom from any page or whiteboard.
On the topic of Loom, Rajan shared that Loom is Atlassian’s fastest growing app at scale.
On the move? You’ll be able to listen to audio briefings of your Confluence pages using the Confluence mobile app.
And, finally, Rovo Create has just been launched (rolling out in the next couple of months), and will help teams to create content in Confluence even more efficiently and effectively, with an outcomes-led prompt.
Confluence and Loom, alongside Jira, are core apps within the Atlassian Teamwork Collection.
Have you checked out all our apps for Confluence?
Team ’25 Europe: Over and out
There’s always such a buzz at Team, and it’s great to share knowledge, ideas and inspiration with fellow Marketplace Partners like ourselves, Solution Partners, Atlassians and customers.
If you weren’t able to make it, we hope this blog post has updated you on some of the key new arrives to the Atlassian ecosystem, and got you excited about future innovations.
And, if you feel like your compliance efforts need supercharging, your Jira could do with some stronger governance, or you’re losing control of your document management edge, why not say hi to us over on the Atlassian Marketplace. Discover award-winning apps designed for Jira and Confluence – and try them for free!
