n-Jira's Reports Show Everything Happening Inside Jira. We Show the Rest of the Picture.
Jira comes with a set of built-in reports, sprint reports, burndown and velocity charts, cumulative flow diagrams, plus dashboards you build yourself from gadgets, many of them backed by a saved JQL filter. They're genuinely useful for tracking engineering work. They have no way to show anything that isn't already inside Jira.
What Jira's reports actually show you
Sprint reports and burndown charts live under a project's Reports section, tracking how work completed against what was planned for a given sprint. Velocity charts track that trend across multiple sprints.
Cumulative flow diagrams show how issues are distributed across statuses over time, useful for spotting where work is piling up in a workflow.
Dashboards are built from gadgets you add and arrange yourself, and a lot of the more useful ones are backed by a saved JQL filter rather than a fixed report type, so the gadget shows exactly the subset of issues you care about.
Where the picture stays incomplete
Every one of these reports only sees Jira's own data. The moment someone wants sprint velocity shown next to revenue, or bug volume next to support ticket count from a separate helpdesk, Jira's built-in reporting has nothing to say.
Most teams solve that today by exporting to a spreadsheet and rebuilding the comparison by hand, every single reporting cycle.
Where this shows up in practice
A dashboard that blends Jira with the rest of the business
We build dashboards that combine Jira's own numbers, sprint velocity, bug counts, with revenue or support data pulled from wherever those actually live, so leadership sees one picture instead of three tabs.
A metric Jira's gadgets don't have a chart for
When the one number a team needs isn't something a built-in gadget covers, we pull it through the API on a schedule and build the view that actually shows it.
Still exporting to a spreadsheet to build the real report?
Tell us what the spreadsheet is combining, and we'll automate it.
Jira tells you everything about Jira, and nothing about the rest of the business?
Show us the report that currently means exporting data and stitching it together by hand, and we'll build the version that updates itself. Jira's reporting gaps are one example of a much bigger pattern: anywhere your business is still manually combining numbers from different tools is worth the same fix.
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