The MARS? Wrapper – September 2022

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One of our?unique offerings ?at Blended Perspectives is our?Marketplace Analytic Research Service? ?(MARS?) database of Atlassian Marketplace 3rd party apps.

MARS? is a one-of-a-kind offering in the Atlassian ecosystem that enables us to perform quantitative Marketplace analysis for both our customers and across the wider Atlassian ecosystem.

In the?MARS? Wrapper, our monthly MARS? newsletter, we'll recap all of our latest Atlassian Marketplace analysis all in one place for you. You'll get to see the fastest growing apps of the past month ??, the new "500 Club" entrants ??, our apps to keep an eye on ??, the fastest growing apps by category ??, our featured "MARS? App of the Month" ??, as well as all of our other MARS? related content!

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?? Atlassian Marketplace: Fastest Movers

This month?Zephyr Scale?took the cake as the fastest growing paid Atlassian Marketplace application growing by 1,100 instances. As usual, it was also a good month for its fellow testing apps?Xray?and?Zephyr Squad?while?BigPicture,?Tempo Timesheets, and?draw.io?also had strong showings.

Special mention must also go to?Deep Clone for Jira?and?Power BI Connector?by codefortynine and Alpha Serve respectively who, growth-wise, are competing with the biggest apps out there.

The strongest growers by percentage growth were?Requirements & Test Management for Jira?by Hexygen and?SoftComply Risk Manager?by SoftComply which both grew by 15%

You can find out all of the fastest growing free and paid apps?here !

?? Atlassian Marketplace: New 500 Club Apps

The 500 Club of apps is made up of apps with over 500 instances and interestingly, while only making up 13% of all apps, the 500 Club members generate 83% of all Marketplace installs! This means we can focus our analytical attention on these 13% of apps, carefully categorizing them into our "Meaningful Categorizations " and including them in category analyses.

This month we welcomed?Custom Fields Suite,?External Share for Jira,?Usage Statistics for Confluence,?PractiTest Test Management,?Agile Reports & Gadgets, &?Rich Filters: Service Management Dashboards?to the 500 Club.

You can learn more about these apps including their growth rates and how we categorized them?here !

?? Atlassian Marketplace: Apps to Watch

In our Apps to Watch post, we unveil the fastest-growing apps with under 500 instances. This month they were:?QAlity Plus,?Gitlab-Jira integration,?Microsoft Teams Integration+ for Jira,?Organizational Chart for Jira Cloud,?Advanced Custom Fields,?Attachment Manager,?Advanced Kanban Board,?Secure Custom Fields,?Trello+ for Confluence, &?Google Sheets+ for Confluence.

Click?here ?to learn more about these apps including their installs, number of users, and growth.

???MARS? Category Leaders

Our MARS? "Meaningful Categorizations" are one of its unique features that makes it so valuable to our customers and the wider Atlassian ecosystem.

The Atlassian Marketplace's categorizations are done through vendor self-selection which naturally leads to over-categorization and apps being featured in categories in which they have minimal functionality. On the other hand, MARS? "Meaningful Categorizations" are based on the primary functionality. This means that when you look for a Reporting, Publishing, Diagramming etc... app in MARS?, only apps that primarily serve this use case will appear.

Find out the fastest growing app over the past month in each of our "Meaningful Categories"?here .

?? MARS? App of the Month

MacroSuite?by?Caelor?was awarded our MARS? App of the Month award for September!

This feature-rich content formatting application is a must-have for anyone looking to create beautiful pages on Confluence Cloud.

Learn all about MacroSuite, including its use cases, main features, and recent growth vs its competitors?here !

We hope you enjoyed our recap of all the latest news from MARS? and the Atlassian Marketplace.

Please?get in touch ?with us if you have any further questions on MARS? or if you are interested in receiving personalized MARS? content.