Cloud vs. Data Center - Key Differences between Platforms
- Anna Ciepłota
- Marta Golab (Deactivated)
- Piotr Koszela
Introduction
With each new release of our Cloud-hosted plugins, we endeavor to reduce disparities in functionality and customization between them and our Data Center-hosted versions. However, due to technical prerequisites and limitations of Jira Cloud, inevitable variances remain.
Our Data Center-hosted BigPicture remains the gold standard, serving as a reference point for its Cloud-hosted equivalent.
In the tables below, you can find such disparities by comparing and contrasting the features and functionalities of Cloud- to Data Center-hosted BigPicture and BigPicture Enterprise modules.
Since BigPicture includes all of BigGantt's functionalities, BigGantt was intentionally missed out in the below comparison.
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Modules
In this table, you can check the availability of modules in BigPicture Cloud and BigPicture Data Center versions.
The list of missing functionalities in BigPicture Cloud – issues on BigPicture's side
Module | Key difference | Explanation | Preview | Issue to track |
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Risks, Board | Edit Issue dialog not available on Cloud | Not available at the moment. | 
| Feature request on BigPicture's end. Note: inline editng allows you to edit visible card fields. Alternatively, click on the issue key to open the issue page to make changes. |
All | Online presence | Not available at the moment. | Feature request on BigPicture's end: BP-4273: Online presence works when App is hosted on Jira CloudOpen | |
All | Enhanced JQL functionality | Jira Cloud doesn't support JQL enhancement. |
| Feature request on BigPicture's end: BP-9023: Enhanced JQL available on Cloud - issue in box(BOX-ID) onlyOpen |
The list of missing functionalities in BigPicture Cloud – issues on Atlassian's side
Module | Key difference | Explanation | Preview | Issue to track |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gantt | Create Jira sub-task not available on Cloud | Atlassian Connect Jira JavaScript API does not provide such functionality. | 
| Ticket on Atlassian's end - click here. |
Scope | Detail View not available on Cloud | Atlassian API does not provide such functionality. |
| Ticket on Atlassian's end - click here. |
BigPicture configuration | "Risk consequence" "Risk probability" and Task Mode fields are locked | Atlassian's REST API allows the plugin to add Select List (single choice) type of fields on installation only when they are locked. For more information, refer to this article. |
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BigPicture configuration | Respect Jira's Screen scheme configuration | The UI element (swiper) is not available. The Jira Cloud hosting security always requires respecting the screen scheme configuration, so the administrator has no possibility to configure the application in this regard. | ||
Confluence | Gadgets | Following differences in the Confluence architecture between Jira Data Center and Jira Cloud:
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Custom fields from third-party Jira apps in BigPicture and BigGantt.
Depending on the functionality of a given plugin, custom fields based on third-party Jira apps may have limited or different functionality in the Cloud version of the product. For example, Traffic Lights can be displayed only as a text field.