Atlassian has announced the finalists of the Partner Awards 2026 – and XALT is among them: asFinalist for "Government Partner of the Year – EMEA".
We are thrilled. And at the same time, this nomination means more to us than a pat on the back for 2025: It is proof that the strategy we have been pursuing for years together with public sector clients is working – and that it is needed right now.
Because for many government agencies and municipalities, the question is no longer whether, but how to make the secure path to the cloud work: compliant, in line with procurement law, with limited resources, and without downtime in critical services.
Being selected as a finalist in a category demonstrates the deep expertise and commitment of our partners in driving innovation for Atlassian customers.
Alan Braun, Head of Product Ecosystem, Atlassian
Why Government EMEA – and why now
March 2029 is closer than it sounds.Atlassian is ending Data Center supportin phases: no new licenses from March 2026, final renewal in 2028, read-only from 2029.
For public sector organizations, that means: three years to migrate a platform that often underpins hundreds of internal processes, citizen services, and OZG workloads.
This is not a classic migration project. It's procurement law + GDPR + BSI baseline protection + heterogeneous IT landscapes + political time pressure – all at once.
Our blueprint for the public sector
At the heart of our public sector approach is thepartnership with one of Germany's largest public-sector IT service providers. Together, we are addressing the data center end-of-life in 2029 with a model built for the realities of the public sector:
- Aggregator model: Municipalities can be onboarded through existing framework agreements, without each individual authority having to initiate a new standalone procurement.
- Scalability: This approach paves the way for more than 5,000 municipalities toward the Atlassian Cloud.
- Security by DesignMigration to BSI-C5-certified cloud infrastructure, full EU data residency, Atlassian Guard Premium for data classification.
We didn't deliver a lighthouse project. We built arepeatable systemthat we are actively applying to a growing number of public sector customers.
What's Next
The winners will be announced at Atlassian Team '26 in Anaheim. Cheer us on – but more importantly: If you're responsible for Jira/Confluence, security, or procurement in the public sector and don't want 2029 to become a stress test:Talk to us.
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