SPIEGEL Group was evaluating Data Center and Cloud options and was in contact with various Atlassian partners. Ultimately, our extensive cloud expertise and a tailored migration plan won the team’s trust.

A detailed migration plan was developed covering all apps and integrations. Jira, Jira Service Management, and Confluence were all scoped for migration to the Cloud.

From the decision to migrate to go-live took approximately one year. Before the actual migration began, we ran several cloud admin training sessions so the SPIEGEL team could get comfortable with the new cloud environment. Since standardized migration paths weren’t yet available for all products at that time, we developed a custom solution beginning with a thorough cleanup phase — because cleaner data means a faster, smoother migration.

SPIEGEL Group has been live on the Cloud since September 2022. “I’m now a fan of the Cloud,” reports IT Project Manager Thorben Petersen — and his team shares that positive experience. Of course, it took some time to adjust to the modern interface and new features, but the benefits became clear quickly. The unexpectedly low volume of IT support tickets showed how intuitively the Atlassian Cloud was adopted.

The initial data privacy concerns were confidently resolved through close, trust-based collaboration. Thanks to the migration, SPIEGEL Group can now reinvest IT resources in internal processes.