Pauline Bessoles: Stay in control after Atlassian Data Center: European digital sovereignty & control with XWiki

By: Pauline Bessoles, Partnership Manager, XWiki SAS

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1. Stay in control after Atlassian Data Center: European digital sovereignty & control with XWiki Pauline Bessoles Product and Partnerships Manager
2. • Launched in 2003 • Knowledge management software • 100% Open Source, no data lock−in • Flexible, extensible and scalable • Cloud and on premises • Supported by a thriving community • More than 6 years of experience in Confluence Migrations
3. 75 Employees 20+ Years 1000+ clients 900+ Extensions 8000 Installations
4. Two products Wikis, collaborative work, knowledge sharing & management Integrations available within Real-time, end-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite
5. Atlassian Data Center Price Increase (15 000 users) $1.200,000 $1,115,000 $1.100,000 148% Cost = Jira & Confluence $1.000,000 $892,000 $900,00 0 $800,00 0 almost 3x Price increase $735,000 $700,00 $700,00 0 0 Atlassian’s Shareholder Letter Q2 2025 $600,00 $600,00 0 0 $500,00 $500,000 0 $448,400 $400,00 $0 0 2019 2019 2021 2021 2024 2024 Year 2025 2025 “Data Center revenue growth of 32% was driven by price increases, seat expansion in existing customers, and the benefit from prior-year Server migrations...”
6. The clock is ticking ⏳ Come 2029, the end is nigh for Atlassian Data Center. Join 1000+ teams who migrated from Confluence and Jira to XWiki and OpenProject. Why migrate? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Digital sovereignty Compliance Control Cost predictability Security & privacy 100% open source
7. XWiki, an alternative to Confluence ✅ Structured with pages and spaces ✅ Page modification history Children tree ✅ In-wiki links, with support for page move / rename Boxes ✅ Macros and structured content ✅ Extensibility & customization Live data (dynamic tables) Granular rights
8. The starting point: Confluence Server EOL Atlassian Shareholder letter – Q1 2021
9. First migrations Community migration tool Requires the help of an XWiki expert, even for small migrations. First migration challenges >>> closing the gap with macros Co-financing of migration improvements
10. 2024 / 2025: Scaling with larger migrations European Parliament ✅ 15k users – 1000 spaces BMC ✅ 2 instances ✅ 150k users – 3000 spaces Industrialization of the migration process
11. Focus : Migration Report View Extensive report on each migration with all issues to fix
12. Our migration methodology
13. Today, we are ready Atlassian Shareholder letter – Q1 2026
14. They already migrated
15. openDesk - Proof of Trust • Officially launched by ZenDiS (Centre for Digital Sovereignty) in 2024 • Integrates leading open source components into one workplace - openDesk selected XWiki for knowledge management and OpenProject for project management • Built for high-security, compliance-heavy public sector environments • Used by Robert Koch Institute (RKI), BWI GmbH (German Federal IT Provider) and further European institutions
16. All this + project management integrated Have all your tickets linked to the most important pages, without switching platforms
17. + + VS 100% open source & self-hostable Proprietary & cloud-first Structured data, forms, scripting Limited metadata & structure Full data portability Vendor lock-in Transparent pricing, same for Cloud & On-Prem Expensive scaling Integrates with Nextcloud, and more. Business data used to train AI
18. 2029. Atlassian DC’s end. 3 years in enterprise time is about the same as next Tuesday in real life. The end of Atlassian Data Center isn’t a future problem. It’s a preparation issue. And preparation starts now.
19. Migration and support partners We work with a network of partners which can assist in the deployment, customization, and support of XWiki. Now what ? • Book a follow-up or demo consultation with either team ; • Try the Confluence Migration Toolkit ; • Reach out for a joint migration assessment, and we’ll guide you through planning ! Jari Savela Projektimyynti jari.savela@dicode.fi