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Email: Comparison of popular Jira apps for Microsoft Outlook [ARCHIVED, not customer-facing]
Nov 29, 2024

With years of experience in Microsoft development, yasoon provides high-quality, secure and state-of-the-art apps made in Germany. Our Outlook Email for Jira app deeply connects Jira and Outlook to enable teams to provide information across tools. This table is going to give an overview of what sets us apart from Atlassians free app "Jira Cloud for Outlook (Official)", so you can easily decide which one is the right fit for you:


Outlook Email for Jira vs. Jira Cloud for Outlook (Official)

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Feature

Outlook Email for Jira

Jira Cloud for Outlook (Official)

Features in Outlook

Create new Jira issues from emails

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Work with Jira screens in Outlook
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Use custom fields incl. 3rd party apps

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Rich text editor takes over text formats from email (like lists, colors and tables)

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Share email conversations incl. future replies to Jira

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Put Outlook emails in a Jira context via a separate sidebar

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Sidebar: Access issue information right in Outlook e.g. status & priority etc.

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Sidebar: View all related issues to a specific email in the Conversation Tab

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Sidebar: See details about the email sender and their related issues in the Sender Tab

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Sidebar: View & leave Jira comments in the Comment Tab

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Add emails to existing Jira issues

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Integrate with JSM

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Features in Jira

See emails related to an issue in the related email panel

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Answer on emails and/or email conversations

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Send new emails from Jira

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Share Jira issues as an email

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Use templates with smart values for sending emails from Jira

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Use Automation to send emails/trigger events in Jira

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Jira admin configuration

Create Jira screen templates and define which Jira fields should be prefilled based on content from emails

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Admin: centrally control default app/default settings

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Decide if other users/which users can see the email in the related email panel (sharing)

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Add a default shared mailbox to send on behalf of

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Security

Security Self-Assessment Program

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Marketplace Bug Bounty Program

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Availability

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Data Center

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*Information from September 2021 based on Atlassian Marketplace

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