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The Total Economic Impact™ Of The Atlassian Cloud & Data Center Enterprise License Agreement (ELA)
A Forrester Total Economic Impact study on the measurable value of Atlassian's Enterprise License Agreement.
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$3.6M
Total benefits*
25%
Average cost savings*
$2.4M
Savings*
*over a three-year period
Don’t take our word for it
Organizations managing enterprise-scale complexity use the Atlassian ELA to simplify licensing, reduce costs, and accelerate cloud transformation.
The ELA allows us to build products as one. When they're in 64 different instances, that means we have 64 different processes across functional programs, making it hard to run. Inspecting the business is hard because you've got 64 different data feeds and silos. Now that we’ve combined those up, we have a system we can actually measure, inspect, and automate.
Networking Lead, Information Technology
We are getting enough time to migrate our content from datacenter to cloud without worrying about licenses for all of our 20-plus instances. Without the ELA, we would need to buy licenses for 20 datacenter instances plus licenses for cloud before migrating. Instead, this year, it is combined. We are able to run all these instances in parallel and migrate our data to cloud at our pace.
Software Engineering Services Owner, Diversified technology and manufacturing
We had 15 instances, and every instance ran as a separate license. You could be using 5,000 seats on one instance and 7,000 seats on another instance, but you had to buy 10,000 seats on each instance. So, we were always over on the number of licenses that we wanted… That was when Atlassian came to us and said, let’s talk about an ELA.
Product Owner, Enterprise IT tools, Financial services
As we do migrations, we start taking users out of ebbing datacenter instances and adding them to cloud… Over the three years period of the ELA those licenses and seats are moving around. In the past I would buy the licenses and seats numbers for the year and must stick with that. If I needed more seats, I had to buy more but if I needed less, I couldn’t do anything about that.
Product Owner, Enterprise IT tools, Financial services
The Atlassian ELA leads to…
Lower licensing costs
Flexible Cloud and Data Center licensing eliminated duplicate seats and delivered over $2.4M in savings across three years.
Predictable pricing
Multi-year fixed pricing helped organizations avoid typical annual increases, resulting in $923K in savings.
Simplified procurement
Centralizing purchasing reduced manual license management and saved $265K in administrative costs.
Smoother cloud migrations
Run Cloud and Data Center in parallel under one agreement, reducing migration risks and helping teams move at their own pace.