Atlassian first showed off Rovo six months ago. Rovo is what the company calls “AI Teammate,” which combines smarter search and chat-based AI tools with agents that allow users to automate parts of their workflows in tools like Jira and Confluence. At the Team '24 Europe event in Barcelona, the company announced the general availability of Rovo. Additionally, Atlassian also announced a number of additional new AI capabilities that, like Rovo, are part of the company's Atlassian Intelligence platform.
At the core of Rovo, Rovo Search not only combines data from Atlassian's core tools such as Jira and Confluence, but also enables businesses to connect various third-party SaaS tools. Jamil Valliani, head of Atlassian Intelligence products at Atlassian, said Search will support about 80 connectors in the coming months. Currently, we support ingesting data from services like Slack, Figma, Google Drive, and GitHub, but the plan is to support all the major SaaS apps used by Atlassian customers.
From there, you can not only search this data, but also use Rovo Chat to ask questions about it. The new Rovo browser extension brings this chat experience to any site on the web.
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Regarding Rovo Search, Variani also said that the company now takes social signals into account when ranking search results based on data from Team Graph, which allows users to see who they typically collaborate with. I mentioned that you can find out if there are any.
Beyond these core features, what got people most excited when Atlassian first demoed Rovo was Rovo Agents. This is where the concept of intelligent assistance fully takes shape in the Atlassian ecosystem. The promise here is that these agents can handle some of your employees' mundane, repetitive tasks, freeing them up to do more important work. There are currently around 20 agents available, ranging from tools that can create release notes, bug report assistants, OKR generators, translators, and trivia hosts (why wouldn't you?).
But the real power here, says Variani, is that employees can build their own agents. “We really want to inspire people across the business about what’s possible,” he said.
Atlassian plans to bring more agents and agent features to the marketplace over time, and has already partnered with Appfire, Usertesting, Onward, and Zapier to highlight some of these features.
However, not everyone in your company uses Atlassian products, which can limit the reach of products like Rovo and Rovo Search. It will also be difficult for Atlassian to market its products, as many other companies are competing to offer comprehensive AI-powered products as well. service. But as the company announced Wednesday, Rovo will be available to non-Atlassian users at no additional cost.
Atlassian Intelligence for developers
Rovo is probably the hottest part of Atlassian Intelligence right now, but as part of this release the company is also releasing a number of additional features to help with time-consuming tasks, primarily for developers and project managers. I'm doing it. It is not directly related to programming.
In the future, new AI agents will be able to generate code plans, code recommendations, and pull requests in Jira based on task descriptions created by developers, as well as requirements and additional context within your organization.
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“Developers wake up in the morning and spend half their time working on problems like, 'This crashed,' or 'I need to change this setting.' All these different things are actually making the next feature work. It gets in the way when you’re building or doing other more complex tasks,” Valliani said. With Jira and Confluence, Atlassian gets more context from within a developer's company to look for issues and help developers fix and, ideally, avoid them.
“I'm asking this AutoDev agent to look for problems it can solve. When it finds a problem it can solve, it shows up and says, 'Hello, I'm AutoDev.'” Masu. ”
Of course, the agent does not act autonomously, but it always knows about the human situation and shows exactly what it plans to do.
Another new tool speeds up pull request reviews by automatically analyzing your code and providing recommendations for improvements, regardless of your code management tool.