Atlassian CEO: firms underestimate how critical we are to their operations

Speaking at Atlassian Team '26 Europe in Amsterdam, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said organizations fail to rank Atlassian among their top five strategic vendors even though its systems underpin critical workflows. He also announced an extended alliance with OpenAI and called Context Graph arguably the best in the world.

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