yasoon announces all-new Outlook email add-in for Jira

yasoon, the Atlassian-verified Marketplace Top Vendor with an exclusive focus on Microsoft integrations, announces a new major version of its popular award-winning Outlook email add-in for Jira.

Launched in 2016, the Outlook email add-in for Jira has grown to more than 2,200 satisfied customers, with thousands of Jira issues are created daily. The app bridges the gap between Jira and emails in the Microsoft Outlook inbox. Users can quickly turn emails into actionable Jira issues and get additional Jira information right next to their email. It makes all employees more productive and is available for Jira Cloud and Jira Server, as well as all Outlook versions for Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, and Android.

Today yasoon is proud to announce the rollout of our best and completely rebuilt version 3. Built entirely from scratch, the new version offers new features, simpler workflows, and a smoother user experience overall.

The new features include:

  • A rich text editor to create Jira issues from emails.
  • A simple way to add co-workers to the conversation.
  • An improved sidebar with a lot more context information on existing Jira issues.
  • The ability to send issues as emails in Outlook.

The new version is free of charge for our existing customers available now.

“Our new version let us integrate a lot of our customers’ feedback and suggested features. It’s really tailored to our customer’s needs,” said Andreas Schmidt, CEO of yasoon.

“Email in Outlook is critical to many business processes. We are pleased that yasoon is helping Microsoft customers improve their work routines by adding Jira context to Outlook,” said Mike Ammerlaan, Director Product Marketing Ecosystem at Microsoft Corporation.