Integrate Businessmap's Modern PPM with Jira for Seamless Portfolio Management

Let each team keep the tool they work in. Management plans and reports in Businessmap, developers stay in Jira, and the integration carries the work between them automatically – in both directions, with no double entry and no status meetings.

  • Rated 4.8/5 on Gartner Peer Insights, PPM category
WHY BUSINESSMAP

Why Businessmap is the best PPM tool that integrates with your Jira instance

As an enterprise PPM tool with Jira integration, Businessmap doesn't ask engineering to change how it works. It gives management the portfolio layer it needs, kept in sync automatically.

One flow of work, two systems

Every status change developers make in Jira moves the card across the Businessmap board. Nobody updates the same item twice.

One source of truth at a time, by design

At every stage of the process, one system owns the item and the other reflects it – planning owned in Businessmap, delivery owned in Jira.

Configured around how your teams actually hand off work

Businessmap's Solution Architecture team designs the integration around your process, documented and agreed before anything goes live.

How the Jira Integration Works

Event-Driven, Two-Way Sync

React the moment it happens

The integration is triggered by the events you choose: a card entering a column, an issue changing status, a comment being written. Each event is carried across.

  • A card reaching the agreed column creates a Jira issue of the type you specify, carrying title, description, priority, and tags
  • A status change in Jira moves the card to the matching column, so the Businessmap board reflects real progress without anyone updating it
React the moment it happens
Continuous Catch-Up Sync

Mirror a Jira project onto a board

On a repeating schedule, the integration looks at everything created or changed in a Jira project and brings it onto a Businessmap board.

  • Best when management needs visibility of a Jira project without asking the Jira team to change anything at all
  • Priorities, links, and attachments carried across alongside the cards
  • Combine with event-driven sync where handoffs need to be immediate and unambiguous
Mirror a Jira project onto a board
One Owner at a Time

The rule that makes a two-way sync safe

The integration is built around handovers of ownership, not constant mutual updating.

  • Planning is owned in Businessmap, delivery in Jira, handover back to Businessmap when work is done
  • The integration recognizes its own writing, so a comment it just copied across is never echoed back
The rule that makes a two-way sync safe
Automation Built In

Rules that run without a premium tier

Card movement, field changes, due dates – automation is standard, not an upgrade.

  • Businessmap includes generous daily automation limits as standard – from 2,000 up to 10,000 rule executions per day depending on plan, as soft limits that notify Account Owners rather than blocking execution
  • Jira caps automation rule runs at 1,000 per user per month, and only on Premium plans
Rules that run without a premium tier
Guided Migration

Move fully into Businessmap

For enterprise teams migrating away from Jira entirely, a dedicated Solution Architecture team runs the move for you, on a shared migration board, planned and approved with you at every step.

Move fully into Businessmap
CASE STUDIES

How Businessmap supports a transformation program designed to boost efficiency and consolidate work management methods under one roof.

250% increase in operational efficiency
35% higher workflow accuracy
25% faster delivery productivity

How a Global Project Delivery firm increased operational transparency.

after three months, our team is more collaborative and performing better than before.

Josh Zimmerman · Department Manager, SSOE

Increased operational transparency
Better resource allocation and utilization
Increased team collaboration
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BY THE NUMBERS

Enterprise PPM teams integrate, and the numbers hold up

500+

project teams running active portfolios on Businessmap

85%

of all support tickets resolved within 24 hours

67%

faster time-to-milestone reported by energy sector customers

Frequently Asked Questions

Have more questions? Browse our Businessmap demo center.
Businessmap connects to Jira through an event-driven, bi-directional integration set up by a dedicated Solution Architecture team. Management plans and reports in Businessmap while developers keep working in Jira exactly as they do today, with the two systems kept in step automatically.
See your Jira workflow, mapped into Businessmap live

TALK TO BUSINESSMAP EXPERTS

Bring how your teams actually hand off work between management and development. A Solution Architecture specialist will show you exactly how the integration would be configured for your process.
  • Live mapping of your actual handoff process
  • Tailored to your PMO maturity & Jira setup
  • Q&A with a Businessmap solutions expert
  • Optional NDA – share real data with confidence

Bring one Jira workflow. We'll map it live in 30 minutes.

Free · 30 minutes · No prep required

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