Atlassian has announced the finalists of the Partner Awards 2026 - and XALT is among them: as a Finalist for "Government Partner of the Year - EMEA".
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.
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.
Being selected as a finalist in a category demonstrates the depth of expertise and commitment of our partners to drive 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 ends data center support step-by-step: no more new licenses from March 2026, last renewal in 2028, read-only from 2029.
For public authorities, this means three years to migrate a platform on which hundreds of internal processes, citizen services and workloads related to Germany’s Online Access Act (OZG) often depend.
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.
Our blueprint for the public sector
At the center of our public sector approach is the partnership with one of the largest public IT service providers in Germany. Together, we are addressing the data center end-of-life 2029 with a model that is made for reality in the public sector:
- Aggregator model: Municipalities can be connected via existing framework agreements without each individual body having to start a new individual contract.
- Scalability: The approach paves the way for more than 5,000 municipalities to use Atlassian Cloud.
- Security-by-Design: Migration to BSI-C5-certified cloud infrastructure, full EU data residency, Atlassian Guard Premium for data classification.
We have not delivered a flagship project. We have delivered a repeatable system which we are actively applying to a growing number of public sector customers.
What comes next
The winners will be announced at Atlassian Team ’26 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: Talk to us.
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