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Export issues from Jira like a pro: 10 use cases for enterprise teams

Huwen Arnone
Mar 6, 2025 5:33:00 PM

 

Project management and task management, are jobs usually associated with Jira, especially for enterprises. When exporting issues from Jira the need to get insights, enhance business intelligence, ensure compliance, and integrate data with third-party systems, relies on the right exporting capabilities. In this blog, we’ll show how different industries are tackling real-world challenges. From automating compliance reports in financial services to optimizing IT operations with scheduled exports.

In the following use cases, you’ll learn how to get the most out of Jira’s data for better data governance and project management efficiency, security, and decision-making. The ability to export issues from Jira goes beyond simply moving data from one place to another, it’s all about unlocking actionable insights and BI for better project management.

Those insights help to ensure that business project management can operate with accuracy and transparency, allowing them to optimize project performance obtaining better business outcomes. Whether it's tracking SLAs in customer support or maintaining audits scheduled to check the health of the team's progress, it’s necessary to perform this through the flexibility and automation that enterprises need.

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Let’s explore different use cases, whether you’re a Jira admin, system administrator, data professional, or an application manager, you’ll discover how different industries can benefit and transform raw data into valuable business intelligence, making Jira an even more powerful tool for decision-making:

1. Software development:
🖥️Managing large project backlogs 

Imagine a software development team working on an enterprise SaaS product, as they need to analyze their entire backlog for sprint planning and road mapping, they easily first export thousands of issues from Jira into an Excel sheet or integrate the export of those issues with their BI tool of preference to identify blockers, prioritize tasks, and refine their backlog strategy. That way, they are more efficient with their planning.

2. Financial services:
📈Ensuring predefined data queries are compliant with project requirements

As a financial services company, some of them are required to generate reports related to customers. Those issues containing that information tend to contain sensitive data. By using Exporter's saved filters, you’ll ensure that you are quickly exporting the issues necessary while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. Nevertheless, you’ll be doing it fast. 

3. IT operations:
💻Automating the export of issues for recurring stakeholder reports 

When an IT operations team is managing system uptime for a multinational company, they need to track those recurring incidents within their platform. They have easily automated this process by scheduling the send of weekly issue exports, ensuring every team member responsible, and even the leadership, gets reports on time without manual effort, enhancing productivity.

4. Fintech:
💵Maintaining audit trails for incident management

To handle different financial transactions, having the history of the scheduled exports of issues for regulatory compliance is almost a must. By leveraging the scheduled export history, they can create a transparent, auditable record to meet banking regulations.

5. Retail:
👗Standardizing data for project inventory and order tracking

Managing omnichannel sales can be a challenge for a retail company, given when they undergo the integration with Jira for inventory and order tracking (as issues or work items), mainly relying on a plug-and-play solution such as Projectrak, they get to track thoroughly this data for the success of their project. By exporting issues to CSV using custom delimiters, they ensure data consistency across platforms, avoiding data processing errors, when migrating data from one system to another.

6. Aerospace:
✈️Tracking aircraft maintenance with status transitions

An aerospace company that needs to manage aircraft maintenance needs to offer visibility about how those issues are displaying the right information, and checking it’s properly moving across those different maintenance stages. By taking advantage of the possibility of exporting the issue transitions history, the companies in the aerospace realm can analyze delays, ensure safety compliance, and optimize repair workflows. This feature allows them to analyze bottlenecks and optimize workflows.

7. Telecommunications:
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Monitoring customer feedback & resolutions

A telecom company normally uses Jira Service Management to track customer complaints and resolutions, by taking advantage of the possibility of exporting user comments and SLAs, analysts gain insights about the time of responses, trends, common customer pain points, and areas for service improvement.

8. Customer support:
Measuring SLAs & approvals in Jira Service Management

A worldwide enterprise with a dedicated IT support team tracks SLA breaches and approval workflows in Jira Service Management. To pull critical service data, to ensure teams meet performance standards of service and contractual obligations, they export the issues with SLAs and approvals to structured formats to analyze them and enhance the service.

9. Government:
🏦Controlling access by leveraging exporting permissions

As every government department, needs different levels of clearance, the IT department is not foreign to this reality, that’s why, when handling sensitive citizen data, they need to control who can export issues from Jira. By configuring the export permissions, they prevent unauthorized access from different levels or departments, that way, and ensuring data security.

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10. Entertainment:
📺Coordinating production & content management with Jira

A major entertainment company managing film and TV productions uses Jira to manage massive project portfolios using Projectrak for more agility, they also have integrated Jira data with their content management system. By leveraging the Exporter for Jira API, they have automated data synchronization, track production timelines, and ensure seamless coordination between creative and technical teams. By leveraging the Exporter API, they automate data synchronization, enabling real-time dashboards for better coordination.

Turning data from Jira issues into actionable insights

The data from Jira sometimes is as important as the way you're managing your projects within Jira, for some companies, as you have seen, it’s the foundation for strategic decision-making, compliance, and operational efficiency.

Most companies find in Exporter for Jira a solution that allows enterprises to go beyond simple exports and start getting insights that drive business success. Whether your goal is to enhance transparency, streamline workflows, or maintain proper compliance with your systems, this set of features provides to your project management, and more specifically to your data management, the flexibility, and automation needed to keep up with the evolving demands of your particular industry. 

By exporting issues from Jira properly, automating them, and implementing smart strategies, organizations are turning raw data into actionable intelligence, ensuring they stay ahead of challenges and maximize efficiency.

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