Artificial intelligence (AI) is already competing with humans for the jobs so many of us have built our careers on. Whether this is progress or the beginning of the end of civilization, it’s probably inevitable. But don’t panic: robots still can’t feel, which is good news for anyone aspiring to a long and fruitful career.

The end of the year is typically a time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished in the past twelve months and set goals for the new year. If you’re part of an IT team, you’ve probably accomplished a lot, from managing software upgrades to dealing with major incidents and service outages. But how many times this year have people in your company stopped to say thank you?

It’s been an exciting year here at Confluence Cloud and we want to spread some of that cheer with you. With the holidays and new year upon us, our Confluence mobile elves have been hard at work delivering exciting new features to help you collaborate on the go. So much has changed since we introduced our Confluence Cloud apps for iOS and Android a couple years ago. We thought we’d share 5 tips to help you get work done in 2019.

Don’t you just love getting last-minute feedback from your boss right before your deadline? What about combing through a deluge of irrelevant-but-weighty comments from coworkers who aren’t even working on your project?

At Atlassian, we want to give our customers choice in how they deploy Atlassian products: in the cloud, managed by Atlassian, or on the infrastructure of your choice with Server or Data Center. Many of our on-premise customers begin their Atlassian journey with our server products, with the ability to download our software and install it on a single server that you control. This gets you up and running quickly.

Picture boring a new subway tunnel while the city above you goes on about its business, oblivious to the machinations under the surface. That’s pretty much the project we completed earlier this year. Only we were working in the cloud.

Just when you think you’ve got this whole “knowledge economy” thing figured out, here comes the “creative economy” – the world in which your ability to succeed and add value is limited only by your imagination. Of course, that creativity needs to be informed by a deep understanding of your customers.