Ekso vs. Jira
Jira tracks issues. Ekso tracks what they cost.
Jira Data Center becomes read-only March 28, 2029Project and service work in one customer-operated system.
Jira, Jira Service Management, and Confluence are separately packaged Atlassian products. Ekso brings project work, tickets, docs, time, and cost into one workspace. Ekso offers flat annual paid plans with unlimited users; capabilities vary by plan.
Jira Data Center becomes read-only March 28, 2029.Three paths deserve an explicit decision.
Assess application compatibility, security requirements, data residency, and the operating changes involved in moving from a customer-hosted deployment to Atlassian Cloud.
Atlassian says exceptional multi-year extensions may be available for some customers. Confirm eligibility, terms, and the migration plan that follows directly with Atlassian.
Run project and service work on infrastructure you operate, connect approved AI endpoints with your own keys, and test the migration workflow before committing to a cutover.
Atlassian documents the read-only deadline, its cloud transition path, and the possibility of extensions for exceptional cases. Build your plan from the requirements your organization must preserve. Read Atlassian’s Data Center timeline. Read our migration perspective.
Use a two-phase Jira migration workflow.
The Ekso CLI ships with a built-in migrator. It pulls your Jira projects, issues, comments, attachments, and worklogs into a local cache, lets you preview the result with --dry-run, then writes everything into your Ekso install. Original authors are preserved. Sprints become cycles. Comments and attachments survive. The whole thing is resumable.
ekso migrate jira collect --config migration.config.json --project ACME ekso migrate jira apply --config migration.config.json --process <process-id>
Issues become DataItems with full Field, Tags, and Meta fidelity. Comments become DataAnnotations. Attachments stream straight to Ekso.
Each Atlassian user is matched by email; if no Ekso user exists, one is minted with no welcome email. Authoring fidelity intact.
A network blip during apply isn’t fatal. Re-run with --resume and it picks up at the last successful row.
Validate the move before setting the cutover.
Start with one representative project. Validate field mappings, permissions, attachments, worklogs, and reports; run a dry migration; then choose the production window with evidence from your own environment.