Intro to JetBrains Space - An “All-in-one Solution” for Your Team

What if you could combine Trello, GitLab, JIRA, Calendar, Slack, Confluence, and more - all together into one solution? 

Yes, we are talking about Space - the latest tool from JetBrains famous for its developer productivity-enhancing tools (esp. IntelliJ IDEA). 

What is JetBrains Space?

Space is an ‘Integrated Team Environment’ - it is a collaboration platform that offers functionalities for team management, chat, internal blogging, calendar, meeting scheduling, project management, and software development. 

Why Space from JetBrains? In the words of Maxim Shafirov, JetBrains CEO:

“JetBrains started as a company of developers, but now 40% of our team represent different creative roles: designers, marketing, copywriters, and others. We have built Space so we could still work together as one team, and we believe other companies will benefit from it as well.”

Space is an integrated team environment that is the combination of all usual collaboration tools, such as internal team blogging, projects management, to-do list, team management, documents, meeting scheduling, and chats for effective communication. 

Space is also helpful in software development as it provides CI/CD pipeline, Issue tracker, Git-based Version Control, Package Repositories, Code review, and team directory. And we can also integrate it with other JetBrains products, such as IDEs.

As a result, Space fulfills most of the needs of your software development (Git hosting, code review, CI/CD pipelines, package management, automation) and project management (documents, checklists, issues, issue boards) needs. There is no need to switch tools frequently as everything is available in a single place. 

What are the benefits of using Space?

1. You can get an overview of all the company's work as the information of the team is stored in a single place. 
2. The company's different departments can work and collaborate effectively.
3. There is no need to download and set up several apps for different tasks such as chat, calendar, to-do list, etc, as most of them are already available on Space in a single tool. 
4. You can easily work and track your existing and on-going projects. 
5. You can chat with other team members in groups and even individually. You can also schedule meetings with other members. 
6. Multiple tasks can be automated with the help of Space and it's CI/CD pipeline feature. 
7. Space creates a backup of all of your data in the cloud. So no need to worry about data loss. 
8. You can announce company information through internal blogs within your teams.
9. You can customize Space according to your needs - Space was designed with extensibility in mind from the beginning. 
10. Space comes with a full-featured Client SDK, webhooks, and APIs to integrate with other third-party tools.

Pricing and Installation Options

Space offers four types of plans: Free, Teams, Organization, and Enterprise 

Space is available as an app on multiple platforms - you can install the application on mobile devices for quick access (Android and iOS) or on your desktop (Windows, macOS, or Linux). Or you can just use the web version on the cloud.

Inviting you to Explore Space

We have a special webinar organized on 20th February 2021 on “An Exploration of Space” presented by Maarten Balliauw, Developer Advocate, JetBrains. Please RSVP here to get a detailed overview and understanding of Space and its exciting features.

Resources

There are numerous resources available to learn more about the Space tool. The Space homepage has good overview information on Space. Check out the launch video Lift Off: Online Public Release Event. Space FAQ and Blog can help you know more about Space. And lots of interesting resource videos out there - for example, check out Introduction to Automation: CI/CD in Space.

Try out Space, NOW!