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Rakuten Extends Bitbucket Across Agreement Management
Rakuten, an information technology organization in Japan, uses Bitbucket from Atlassian to support agreement management for legal and business owners.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Agreement management stays visible to adjacent teams through Bitbucket |
| Capability | Legal and business owners work from the same Bitbucket record for contract routing |
| Capability | Contract routing can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
Story
Inside Rakuten, agreement management used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in information technology groups working out of Japan. Legal and business owners needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Rakuten uses Bitbucket from Atlassian as the working layer for contract routing. Atlassian provides work management and DevOps software, including Jira and Confluence, used by software and business teams. The practical change is simple: agreement management has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Rakuten gets from Atlassian is a durable place to run agreement management and a way for legal and business owners to see the same contract routing at the same time.