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OpsGenie is joining Atlassian!

Today we are delighted to announce that Atlassian has entered into an agreement to acquire OpsGenie. Six years ago, my co-founders and I recognized that always-on services were becoming commonplace, customers’ expectations were growing, and service disruptions had increased potential to impact a company’s revenue and reputation. As a result, the pressure on IT professionals was changing, but the tools to help them stay aware and in control of issues were not.

A Way Out of Email Hell: Statuspage for Incident Management

At eBay, we believe collaboration and communication are key to achieving our company goals. Come to this lightning talk to learn how we improved communication inside eBay using Statuspage as the main tool to announce maintenance and inform employees about incidents. This session will present Statuspage best practices to drastically reduce the amount of emails, Slack messages, and phone calls when things inevitably go wrong.

Atlassian to Acquire OpsGenie to Help IT Teams Manage Service Disruptions

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Atlassian Corporation Plc (NASDAQ: TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OpsGenie, Inc., whose technology enables companies to better plan for and respond to IT service disruptions.

Jira Ops + OpsGenie: powerful incident management

Software has become part of our daily lives – from sending money using your phone to signing contracts with a click. But all this progress comes with a downside – specifically, downtime. When a popular online service goes down, it disrupts millions of people and costs businesses $700 billion per year in North America alone. Responding to service disruptions has become one of the biggest challenges facing IT organizations today.

PagerDuty Surpasses 300 Integrations, Cementing its Leadership in Open Ecosystems for Real-time Operations

SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 4, 2018 – PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, today announced it has surpassed 300 integrations as part of its market-leading, open ecosystem for real-time operations. This ecosystem enables PagerDuty customers to automate the detection, triage, response and resolution of real-time events and incidents across complex and constantly changing tech stacks and microservice architectures.

PagerDuty Expands Atlassian Integrations to Enable Real-Time Operations and Collaboration Across Teams

SAN FRANCISCO and BARCELONA – Sept. 4, 2018 – PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, today announced a new set of integrations with Atlassian that helps teams across the enterprise to take action on incidents and collaborate in real time. As part of its 300-strong integration ecosystem, PagerDuty enriches and deepens its commitment to helping its common customers automate work by enhancing key integrations for the Atlassian suite.

The downside to using email to manage your on call team

There are a number of reasons why email is predominately used to manage an incident. Everyone usually has access to email and the email technology has already been “paid for”. Therefore it’s easy to think of email as being a cheap resource that’s easy for MSPs to use. But easy isn’t always best…or even appropriate.

Organizing and Optimizing ITSM Toolsets

Given the speed at which technology and consumer expectations are changing, there are now significant gaps in existing ITSM approaches. As a result, ITSM and ITIL processes need to be modernized to address needs around integrating legacy processes and tools, to create workflows that are built around people to maximize flexibility and ease of use.