Collaboration and productivity software platform company Atlassian Corporation has detailed updates to a selection of its products in line with an accompanying effort to further unify its functionalities. Jira, Confluence and Loom are now supercharged with Rovo agents to form what the company hopes will be the central core of a collaboration stack used for every team.
Product Set Definitions
Jira is a project management and issue-tracking tool with strong planning functions. It enjoys particularly wide adoption where it is used to manage software application development projects. Atlassian Confluence is a team workspace and collaboration product used to create, centralize, organize and share knowledge bases in one central location. And, first offered in 2023 after an acquisition, Loom is a video messaging platform that offers asynchronous communication capabilities for knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
Atlassian Rovo agents are designed to act as configurable and customizable artificial intelligence- (AI) powered virtual teammates that integrate into Atlassian workflows (in the above-defined Jira and Confluence) to automate tasks, provide specialized knowledge and assist with workflow.
Atlassian’s head of product for work management Sanchan Saxena says that modern firms aiming to achieve fluid cross-functional collaboration have difficulties aligning technical and business teams. This is often as a result of work silos, disconnected tooling and poorly-engineered AI services that are ineffective.
“Teamwork Collection is a curated selection of apps – Jira, Confluence and Loom – alongside powerful Rovo agents, that will reimagine the way teams collaborate. Individually, each app and agent contributes significant value, but the magic happens when they’re used together,” said Saxena. “The average worker spends over a quarter of their week looking for the information they need to get work done. Teamwork Collection dismantles silos by providing shared visibility across all work, goals, and data, ensuring both transparency and context.”
How This Technology Works
Detailing the applied functionality of the product set itself, Atlassian explains that Teamwork Collection enables a project or team leader to set up a centralized space that includes a Jira project for planning, a Confluence space for managing knowledge and a Loom space to facilitate fewer — but more effective — meetings. This space can be customized by integrating a Slack channel, adding links to external resources, such as Google Sheets or Figma files used by fans of the Figma interactive product design and prototyping tool, and inviting cross-functional collaborators to stay informed.
For many organizations, AI is more of a headwind that operates in pockets versus a tailwind that lifts everyone up. Knowledge and data silos are getting in the way of teams realizing the full potential of AI.
Teamwork Collection runs on the Atlassian Cloud platform, which has a unified data layer called the Teamwork Graph. This knowledge graph not only aggregates data, it also knows how all of an organization’s work objects (such as teams, messages, goals, etc.) are related. When all organizational knowledge becomes available to AI, teams can use AI-powered search, chat and agentic experiences across every workflow.
Rovo AI Agents Get To Work
“The specialized Rovo agents in Teamwork Collection leverage all knowledge assets – sourced from both first-party and third-party applications – and can even pursue a goal autonomously,” said Saxena. “A few of our favorite out-of-the-box Rovo agents include Brainstorm Facilitator; Diagram Creator (turns discussions into clear, AI-generated diagrams in Confluence whiteboards); Workflow Builder (uses natural language to design and build custom workflows for any process in Jira) and Meeting Insights Reporter.”
Teamwork Collection provides a unified experience throughout the work process, ensuring that information flows smoothly from one stage (and team) to the next, saving time that would otherwise be spent doing low-value work, like searching for information or copy-pasting context.
Not All Meetings Are Painful
Atlassian is naturally upbeat about the potential for its products to make workflows and workplaces better, but perhaps this time, its Rovo AI agents in particular that could lead us to a point where not all meetings are painful. When a team starts a meeting with Loom, the Loom Meeting Assistant joins the calls you invite it to and seconds after everyone waves goodbye, it distills the transcript into a call summary, action items and linked resources that were shared.
Currently, at the time of writing, Atlassian Teamwork Collection and its agentic AI functions do not make the coffee, order cookies or a selection of cold sodas. Watch this space.
