Atlassian Corp. Plc. today announced the general availability of its new generative artificial intelligence assistant Rovo.
The knowledge discovery product for enterprise customers can extract data from a company’s internal tools, help find information stored in them and act on it. The company announced Rovo in May alongside a closed beta for thousands of customers. It’s powered by Atlassian Intelligence, a generative AI service launched a year ago that brought AI services and models to its products.
Rovo includes AI search capabilities, a chatbot that is a go-to expert about a company’s entire portfolio of knowledge and is context-aware and provides powerful agents. Rovo Agents, the company says, can act as “virtual teammates” that can be pulled into any workflow to save hours or days of work at a time.
“We’re also going to be making a number of Rovo capabilities available to non-Atlassian users at no additional cost,” Jamil Valliani, Atlassian’s head of product for AI, told SiliconANGLE in an interview. “So now even departments that don’t use Jira and Confluence will be able to benefit from Rovo Search and Chat.”
Valliani said that Rovo does a lot more than boost work for people inside of the Atlassian suite, as it works extensively with tools such as Google Drive, SharePoint, Figma and GitHub already. Expanding it to users who primarily use it outside of the context of the company will only broaden Atlassian’s audience.
“Rovo unlocks enterprise search for your entire organization, and it connects to data across SaaS tools that companies use every day,” explained Valliani.
Users will be able to invoke Rovo Search and Chat from web browsers making it more accessible for enterprise customers. That means if users are looking at a Google Doc, and they see terms they don’t understand, they’ll be able to bring up Rovo and ask the AI to search company content for Confluence pages or employee records.
Getting work done alongside Rovo Agents
Rovo Agents act like AI “teammates” who can understand company context, complete complex tasks and do it all out-of-the-box with the press of a button or on call. According to Valliani Agents will appear just like other members of the team or can be called up like applications to do specific types of work.
“Agents have a profile which describes what they can do, so users can make informed choices before they engage with them,” said Valliani. “We’re going to have a bunch of agents out of the box, at least 20 of them and more coming soon. We also have partnered with a number of marketplace partners.”
A few typical agents include a User Manual Writer, a Jobs Listing Assistant, a Bug Report Assistant, a Release Notes Drafter, a Global Translator and more. Users can also craft their own with code or without code to help them with their task generation or extend existing Agent capabilities to fit their needs.
“Writing quarterly roadmap items used to take about an hour, and each person on our team creates up to five roadmap items each quarter,” said Noemi Flores, staff program technical program manager at Procore Technologies Inc., an American construction management software-as-a-service provider. “With Rovo, we’ve been able to do the same thing in about 15 minutes.”
Software developers will get a big assist with new developer-focused Agents from Atlassian that will help with code generation for pull requests and requirements. New AI agents can help automatically generate code based on task descriptions, requirements and context from Jira issues to make bug fixes or feature requests faster than ever. AI-powered agents can also ensure that issues match up to code changes, provide recommendations and suggest code edits freeing up developer time for bigger project work.