Asset/data manager seems worthless?

[aarnesen]

I'm hoping this is just a me thing and I'm not understanding the process correctly. The new asset manager looks amazing in the videos but in practice, it's clunky and borderline useless as an actual asset manager?

My experience so far:

• Connecting Entra to Data Manager (DM) is straightforward and easy
• Running an import took a while to figure out because I for some reason have to install a local package to run cloud jobs through command prompt? For a cloud service? Connected to a cloud IDP?
• The data cleanse rules don't actually do anything. I can't find a rule that removes anything from the imported data, none of the rules have ever removed a single row.
• Once I run the import, I can't remove a data set, so all the garbage that was brought in from the job seems to be permanent?
• Connecting DM adapters to Jira Assets requires a csv export then import??

This is about as far as I've gotten because it took way too long to figure out that I needed to use terminal to run a job (this still baffles me). Does anyone see any value in this? I know I can automate a lot of this but what is the actual purpose of me having to do so much manual work inside and outside of the Atlassian environment just to connect itself to itself?

Again, I hope I'm one of the dumber posters in this forum because I really can't wrap my head around how I'm supposed to actually use this as an actual asset manager.

[Michael Evans]

For reference

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSDCLOUD-14881

[Fabian Lim]

Hi @aarnesen

Welcome to the community!

I agree with your assessment. Atlassian needs to finalize the schedule imports to Data Manager and the export to the object schemas. Since the product is still in beta, your feedback is valuable for Atlassian.

Currently, we have the Airtrack functionality for cleanup and de-duplication, but without a seamless connection to Assets, the benefit is limited. Once this works, we can then have some cost savings by getting rid of some plugins. 

The only benefit right now is the use of dashboards and then trying to figure why assets/CIs are found in the platforms and not in others.  

[Rick Westbrock]

Hopefully it's a case of poor documentation because the early demo I saw at the Team 24 conference six months ago definitely showed that the tool can import the ingested data into Assets objects.

[Michael Evans]

Hi @aarnesen

 My exact experience as well. I finally worked the mapping import etc etc and then today I get to the point of importing into the asset and couldnt believe I had to export then download a csv and import it in the asset. It is a beta and I can only hope that it logically includes a way to automatically import into the assets ,otherwise is pointless.

Regards

Michael