As a star product of Atalssian, Jira was born in 2002 and has been developing for nearly 20 years. It is the most famous agile software development tool in the world. Its customers cover all parts of the world.
The SaaS industry in Europe and the United States is relatively mature, the Internet infrastructure is perfect, and enterprises have high acceptance and willingness to pay for SaaS. All these provide a good development environment for SaaS software including Atlassian. During this period, Atlassian has grown rapidly through internal development, external acquisitions and collaboration with third-party application plug-ins, providing enterprise customers with more and more complete product capabilities and services.
The development path of China’s SaaS industry is similar to that of the United States, but because the development of The Internet in China is 20 years later than that in the United States, and due to the differences in the workplace culture between China and the United States, China’s enterprise services are still in the initial stage of development.
Since 2015, as the underlying technology has matured, China’s SaaS industry has entered a period of rapid growth. The development of China’s mobile Internet and the maturity and perfection of cloud computing technology have created conditions for enterprises to accelerate informatization. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the “Promotion of enterprise cloud Implementation Guide (2018-2020)” and various local policies put forward clear requirements for enterprise cloud work, encouraging business application services on the cloud measures to promote SaaS products. This period, emerged a large number of domestic enterprise service products.
The improvement of enterprise informatization, the increasing perfection of emerging technologies, the disappearance of demographic dividend forces enterprises to operate in a refined way, and government policy support create opportunities for the rapid development of domestic software.
In the vertical field of project RESEARCH and development management, due to the upgrading and transformation of industrial Internet, software development has penetrated into various industries, and enterprises have a strong demand for software research and development management. In 2020, the number of employees in China’s software industry will reach 10 million, and the market potential of research and development management software is huge.
Source: China Academy of Communications
Although more and more Chinese enterprises to realize the importance of tools in practical production, introduced and start, but in fact have the ability to apply project management tools only 11.15% of enterprise, research and development of domestic used to manage a team of software is still in the research, such as open source of commercial goods or foreign software (such as Jira) is given priority to, the business scenario adaptation degree is low, high maintenance costs.
Jira is a powerful r&d management tool that can meet the business needs of different industries and enterprises through Jira Software + third-party plug-ins. On the other hand, however, this means that the enterprise must purchase additional plug-ins along with the Jira purchase, otherwise it can only achieve basic task and requirements tracking. In addition, the product design of Jira with Western genes does not conform to the usage and operation habits of Chinese people (the best evidence is that many companies hire special Jira administrators), which often leads to difficulties in using Jira and complaints from the team.
Domestic enterprises are in urgent need of a truly suitable r & D management tool for us, which is always an opportunity. This time, Atlassian stopped selling the Server version in order to “speed up the cloud”, which has a great impact on Chinese enterprises. You know, due to data security and internal audit restrictions, a large number of domestic enterprises purchase the Server version. Atlassian doesn’t have a server in China, and it’s unclear whether it will follow Microsoft’s lead and put servers in Hong Kong in the future. Jira cloud is out of the question for domestic companies. According to the official announcement, not on the cloud customers can choose Data Center (hereinafter referred to as DC), but DC is also a subscription model, from February next year, DC price rises, procurement costs are rising, how many enterprises will really choose DC?
To sum up, domestic project research and development management software has opportunities, at the same time, it is also a challenge. Enterprises that have used Jira have a high demand for R&D management software. How to meet the needs of r&d management scenarios of domestic enterprises, provide high-quality product experience and services, and really help enterprises improve r&d efficiency? This is a question that every domestic software that wants to seize the opportunity needs to think about and solve.