I can understand why management would want to choose Atlassian.
* The idea of the "Atlassian Ecosystem", in that buying more of their services seems to work better.
* On-premise for most of their tools
* Pricing. For example, Bitbucket Server - $26,400 for 500-1000 users /year [1]. GitHub Enterprise - $2,500 per 10 users / year [2]. Self-hosted GitLab - $39 or $199 per user / year (Starter compared to Enterprise Edition Premium package) [3]. If at a 1000 users, that is $26,400 compared to $250,000 or $39,000/$200,000.
* "Other big companies use them"
* "Reporting and metrics"
* "There is a plugin for that"
But, I and most of the other developers I have worked with hate every single Atlassian product we use. JIRA eventually turns into a micromanagement tool with all of the customization people think they want.
People seem to think that because it is customizable, it will solve their problems. It always seems to take up more time and resources to try and bend their tools to do anything useful than it is to just say, "well, I guess we don't really need that".
[1]: https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/bitbucket-server
[2]: https://enterprise.github.com/features#pricing
[3]: https://about.gitlab.com/products/
* The idea of the "Atlassian Ecosystem", in that buying more of their services seems to work better.
* On-premise for most of their tools
* Pricing. For example, Bitbucket Server - $26,400 for 500-1000 users /year [1]. GitHub Enterprise - $2,500 per 10 users / year [2]. Self-hosted GitLab - $39 or $199 per user / year (Starter compared to Enterprise Edition Premium package) [3]. If at a 1000 users, that is $26,400 compared to $250,000 or $39,000/$200,000.
* "Other big companies use them"
* "Reporting and metrics"
* "There is a plugin for that"
But, I and most of the other developers I have worked with hate every single Atlassian product we use. JIRA eventually turns into a micromanagement tool with all of the customization people think they want. People seem to think that because it is customizable, it will solve their problems. It always seems to take up more time and resources to try and bend their tools to do anything useful than it is to just say, "well, I guess we don't really need that".
[1]: https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/bitbucket-server
[2]: https://enterprise.github.com/features#pricing
[3]: https://about.gitlab.com/products/