Where decisions happen, your forecasts should be too.

Group Forecasts in Portfolio Forecaster is now available in Confluence.

When it’s time to plan, align, and make decisions, the conversation moves to Confluence. Where teams review, discuss, and decide what happens next.

That’s where plans are shaped, trade-offs are discussed, and stakeholders look for clarity.

But until now, there’s been a gap. The forecasts exist, the conversations happen, but they haven’t lived in the same place.

Forecasts are only as useful as the decisions they support. In many teams, they sit inside tools, while updates, plans, and discussions happen elsewhere. That creates friction. Data gets explained, copied, or translated before it can be used, and somewhere along the way, context is lost. You see this most clearly during moments that matter. In a quarterly planning session, when leadership is trying to decide what to commit to. In a roadmap review, when priorities need to shift. In an executive update, when stakeholders want to understand what’s on track, and what isn’t.

These are the moments where clarity is critical. But they’re also the moments where teams are often relying on summaries, assumptions, or outdated snapshots. With Group Forecasts now available in Confluence, that disconnect disappears.

The same forecasts generated from your Jira data can now be brought directly into the pages where decisions are made. They become part of the conversation, not something people have to go searching for. When someone reviews a roadmap or reads a delivery update, they’re no longer relying on static summaries or second-hand interpretations. The forecast is right there, grounded in real delivery data and easy to understand in context. And that changes the conversation.

Instead of asking where the numbers came from or how reliable they are, teams can focus on what actually matters, what’s likely to happen, what’s at risk, and what to do next.

Not everyone involved in delivery works in Jira, and they shouldn’t have to. Executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams often rely on Confluence to stay informed. But without direct access to delivery data, they’re left depending on simplified updates or manually created reports. Now, forecasts are visible where those stakeholders already work.

They can see what’s likely to happen, what’s at risk, and how timelines may shift, all within the context of the plans, updates, and discussions they’re part of. That shared visibility creates alignment naturally. Instead of different groups working from different versions of the truth, everyone is looking at the same data, in the same place. And that alignment has a real impact.

It reduces back-and-forth, it shortens decision cycles, and it builds trust between teams and leadership. At the same time, nothing changes about where your data lives.

Jira remains the source of truth. Portfolio Forecaster continues to generate forecasts using delivery data in Jira, with the same permissions and access controls already in place. Confluence simply reflects that information.

So you get the best of both worlds: wider visibility, without duplication or inconsistency.

Making forecasts easier to use

A forecast on its own only tells part of the story. What makes it useful is the context around it.

In Confluence, forecasts can live alongside plans, priorities, risks, and decisions. A roadmap becomes more grounded, an update becomes more credible, and a discussion becomes more focused.

Everything sits in one place, which makes it easier for teams and stakeholders to not just see what’s happening, but to understand what it means and what should happen next.

In Confluence, Group Forecasts appear as a read-only view that’s easy to understand at a glance. And for those who want to go deeper, it’s just one click into Jira to explore the full forecast.

That balance keeps things simple without losing depth.

Over time, this changes how forecasts are used. They’re no longer something you prepare for meetings or explain after the fact. They become part of the discussion itself, visible, accessible, and easy for everyone to understand. And that’s what ultimately leads to better decisions. Not more data, but better use of it.

Getting started is simple

Bringing Group Forecasts into Confluence doesn’t require a complex setup. If you're already using Portfolio Forecaster, you're just a few steps away.

To use Group Forecasts in Confluence:

• You’ll need the Portfolio Forecaster app installed in Jira, with access to the Group Forecasts you want to display

• A Jira admin needs to connect Portfolio Forecaster to Confluence via:

  Site Settings → Connected Apps → Portfolio Forecaster → Connections tab → Connect to Confluence

Once connected, you can start adding forecasts directly to your Confluence pages.

If you’re ready to start bringing Group Forecasts into your Confluence pages, you can follow the full setup guide. Explore our documentation to learn more.

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