JIRA has been recognised by the IT industry and the Australian government for its excellence and high quality as bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management software, receiving numerous awards and endorsements.

Jolt Productivity Award for Bug and Defect Tracking (2007)

JIRA scored a hat trick by winning its third Jolt award in three years. As one of the world's most popular issue trackers, JIRA was named a Productivity Winner in the Bug and Defect Tracking category.

Australian Technology Showcase (2007)

Atlassian won the ATS Patrons' Award for Outstanding Export Achievement for its "JIRA" project management software, that tracks and manages problems during software development projects. "Today JIRA is used by more than 8,000 organisations in 90 countries with customers including NASA, BMW, Nokia, the World Bank and United Nations," Mr Macdonald said. "Atlassian is a company that has successfully filled a gap between free open source software and high cost enterprise software."

Jolt Productivity Award for Bug and Defect Tracking (2006)

For the second year in a row, Atlassian JIRA was selected as a Defect Tracking, Change, and Configuration Management Productivity Winner. Twenty Jolt judges whittled down hundreds of entries looking for products that not only demonstrated innovation, quality, and flexibility, but also products that are "ahead of the curve; universally useful; simple, yet rich in functionality; redefine their product space; or solve a nagging problem that has consistently eluded other products."

Gartner "Cool Vendor" Selection (2006)

The Gartner Cool Vendors in Application Development are designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. In selecting Atlassian JIRA, Gartner wrote "A major part of its appeal is its high degree of configurability at an extremely low price point. It is flexible enough to meet the needs of diverse enterprise business models and workflows, and it has the functionality required to pass strict IT standards for security, user management and interoperability."

Jolt Productivity Award for Bug and Defect Tracking (2005)

JIRA is the proud winner of the 15th Annual Productivity Award in the "Test: Defect-Tracking Tools" category. JIRA is described by Rick Wayne, an esteemed judge for the awards, as "clean" and "sufficiently full-featured to get developers the info they need, yet perfectly usable by non-technical personnel with a Web browser".

For the past 15 years, Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards have been presented annually to products, books and websites that have "jolted" the industry by helping to create faster, easier and more efficient software.

Consensus Software Award (2004)

JIRA was awarded a Consensus Software Award in 2004. The judging panel explained how they were "extremely impressed with Atlassian and their product JIRA". The large, global customer list and rapidly growing profitability did not go unnoticed either with the judging panel noting, "You don't often hear of a small Australian start-up succeeding globally. In our eyes their innovative product coupled with their impressive client list worldwide and the continuing growth profitability makes Atlassian worthy of a 2004 Consensus Software Award".



The awards were jointly presented to Atlassian co-founders, Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes by Hon. Daryl Williams AC QC MP, Minister for Communications and Information Technology and Steve Vamos, Managing Director of Microsoft Australia.

The Consensus Software Awards are Australia's only independently judged awards for Australian designed and developed software and are recognised and endorsed by the Prime Minister of Australia and leading industry bodies including Austrade and the Australian Computer Society (ACS).

Australian Technology Showcase (2004)

JIRA has been accepted into the Australian government's Australian Technology Showcase.

The Australian Technology Showcase program is a promotional and networking government program targeted at small and medium sized Australian business enterprises with innovative, cutting edge technologies. It aims to encourage exports and increase employment by promoting member technologies on the domestic and international markets.