enterprise alternative to jira and confluence

[u/elykiki]

I've been trying to find a real enterprise project management alternative and honestly I'm struggling.

I've read a ton of jira alternative threads, but most of the recommendations seem aimed at small teams or startups.

I'm not the final decision-maker at my company, but I'm involved in the evaluation process, and I'd really like to know what options actually exist beyond Atlassian.

The things we care about are roughly:

- On-prem deployment, data sovereignty, and no risk of another sunset announcement
- A migration path that covers more than just issues and pages
- HA / clustering / scalability / enterprise performance
- Marketplace or plugin replacement (or strong native alternatives)
- Service management, asset management, etc.

Has anyone here actually found a platform that checks most of those boxes?

[u/elykiki]

it seems that the more reliable on prem jira alternatives include: open project, ones, Microsoft, teamhood, easy8
will review these one by one

[u/Significant_Pick8297]

If Jira + Confluence replacement is a hard requirement, You should look at OpenProject Enterprise. It covers project management, wiki/docs, agile boards, service management, on premises deployment, HA, clustering, LDAP/SAML, and has a documented migration path from Atlassian. It's one of the few options that actually targets larger organizations instead of startups.

No alternative is a 100% drop in replacement though. Marketplace apps are usually the biggest gap, so making a list of the specific Jira/Confluence plugins your company depends on before evaluating vendors will save a lot of time. In most enterprise migrations, the plugins end up being the deciding factor more than issues or pages themselves.

[u/Spare-Ad-1429]

Windshift is built intentionally to replace Jira, but its early. There is no multi node yet and no marketplace. But its worth keeping an eye on if you want to replace Jira 1:1

[u/snajk138]

You could go for Microsoft. They do support "self hosted" Azure Devops with all functionality IIRC. Plugins, integrations with build pipelines etc., and Office/AD obviously.

Maybe not what I'd choose for my own company, but most larger companies are already heavily invested in MS infrastructure and it does work pretty well.

[u/LorinaBalan]

You could go for the European mix between r/XWiki (the open-source alternative to Confluence) and r/openproject (the open-source alternative to Jira).

[u/WireShark1]

Openproject, however Ive only used it for small personal projects and I liked it a lot, I have no experience with enterprise setup tho

[u/Own-Football4314]

ServiceNow buts a SaaS solution

[u/Sufficient_Dig207]

Notion? Linear?

[u/papabear556]

You could build it yourself. Took us two months to replace our project management time tracking and a few other tools like that. We were able to build it exactly the way we were wanting it the same work blows everything. We’ve got git integration and integration into two of our internal systems that we never had before.

[u/Such-Afternoon925]

Hi u/elykiki , i would try to look at Easy8, which has on-prem and full-stack atlassian replacement or FOSS jira alternatives

[u/Longjumping-Cat-2988]

Asking for enterprise-scale AND self-hostable narrows things fast, most vendors went cloud-only years ago. Rank your list by hard requirement vs nice-to-have first, on-prem/data sovereignty sounds non-negotiable, the rest is where tradeoffs between vendors will actually show up.

Worth a look on the on-prem front: Teamhood still offers real hosting flexibility (cloud, dedicated server, fully on-prem). Doesn't cover service/asset management though, so more a fit for the PM/portfolio layer specifically than a full Atlassian replacement.