{"id":34622,"date":"2026-04-29T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/?p=34622"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:03:20","slug":"xalt-ist-finalist-atlassian-partner-of-the-year-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/xalt-ist-finalist-atlassian-partner-of-the-year-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"XALT is a finalist for Atlassian Partner of the Year 2026 \u2013 Government EMEA: Relevance for the Public Sector in DACH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlassian has announced the finalists of the Partner Awards 2026 - and XALT is among them: as a <strong>Finalist for \"Government Partner of the Year - EMEA\"<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are delighted. And at the same time, this nomination is more than just a pat on the back for the year 2025: It is proof that the strategy we have been pursuing together with public sector customers for years is working - and that it is needed right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many public authorities and municipalities, the question is not whether, but how to securely move to the cloud: compliant, compliant with procurement law, with scarce resources and without downtime in critical services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"max-width: 900px; margin: 20px 0; padding: 50px;\">\n  <div style=\"width: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n    <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-quote-left\" viewbox=\"0 0 512 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill:#01FFCD; width:100%; height:auto;\">\n      <path d=\"M464 256h-80v-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64h8c13.3 0 24-10.7 24-24V56c0-13.3-10.7-24-24-24h-8c-88.4 0-160 71.6-160 160v240c0 26.5 21.5 48 48 48h128c26.5 0 48-21.5 48-48V304c0-26.5-21.5-48-48-48zm-288 0H96v-64c0-35.3 28.7-64 64-64h8c13.3 0 24-10.7 24-24V56c0-13.3-10.7-24-24-24h-8C71.6 32 0 103.6 0 192v240c0 26.5 21.5 48 48 48h128c26.5 0 48-21.5 48-48V304c0-26.5-21.5-48-48-48z\"\/>\n    <\/svg>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <p>\n    Being selected as a finalist in a category demonstrates the depth of expertise and commitment of our partners to drive innovation for Atlassian customers.\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p><strong>\n    Alan Braun, Head of Product Ecosystem, Atlassian\n  <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Government EMEA - and why now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>March 2029 is closer than it sounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/licensing\/data-center-end-of-life#data-center-eol-general-questions\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/licensing\/data-center-end-of-life#data-center-eol-general-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlassian ends data center support<\/a> step-by-step: no more new licenses from March 2026, last renewal in 2028, read-only from 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For public authorities, this means three years to migrate a platform on which hundreds of internal processes, citizen services and workloads related to Germany\u2019s Online Access Act (OZG) often depend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not a classic migration project. This is public procurement law + GDPR + BSI basic protection + heterogeneous IT landscapes + political time pressure - all at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our blueprint for the public sector<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At the center of our public sector approach is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/atlassian-beratung\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/atlassian-beratung\/\">partnership with one of the largest public IT service providers in Germany<\/a>. Together, we are addressing the data center end-of-life 2029 with a model that is made for reality in the public sector:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Aggregator model<\/strong>: Municipalities can be connected via existing framework agreements without each individual body having to start a new individual contract.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scalability<\/strong>: The approach paves the way for more than 5,000 municipalities to use Atlassian Cloud.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Security-by-Design<\/strong>: Migration to BSI-C5-certified cloud infrastructure, full EU data residency, Atlassian Guard Premium for data classification.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have not delivered a flagship project. We have delivered a <em>repeatable system<\/em> which we are actively applying to a growing number of public sector customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What comes next<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The winners will be announced at Atlassian Team \u201926 in Anaheim. Keep your fingers crossed - but more importantly: If you are responsible for Jira\/Confluence, security or procurement in the public sector and don't want 2029 to be a stress test: <strong>Talk to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arrange an initial consultation incl. <strong>Cloud readiness assessment<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" style=\"background-color:#01ffcd\">Your contact to XALT<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlassian hat die Finalisten der Partner Awards 2026 bekannt gegeben \u2013 und XALT ist dabei: als Finalist f\u00fcr \u201eGovernment Partner of the Year \u2013 EMEA\u201c. Wir freuen uns. Und gleichzeitig ist diese Nominierung f\u00fcr uns mehr als ein Schulterklopfen f\u00fcr das Jahr 2025: Sie ist ein Beleg, dass die Strategie, die wir seit Jahren gemeinsam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":34624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,36,37],"tags":[42],"department":[],"job_location":[],"start":[349],"beschaeftigungsverhaeltnis":[373],"class_list":["post-34622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xalt-news","category-cloud","category-atlassian","tag-cloud","start-ab-sofort","beschaeftigungsverhaeltnis-vollzeit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34622"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34630,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions\/34630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"job_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_location?post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"start","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/start?post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"beschaeftigungsverhaeltnis","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xalt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/beschaeftigungsverhaeltnis?post=34622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}