We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Atlassian Confluence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"The interface is good....I didn't face any issues with the scalability. It was very good."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"It seems highly scalable. There are 500 end users using this solution."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"The ease of use has been one of the most valuable features. It has a very simple wiki."
"I think that it is one of the best products on the market from my experience."
"It is a very popular tool."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"Atlassian should rethink its withdrawal of the self-hosted version of the product. They only offer cloud-based service or the "datacenter-edition", which is quite expensive for small companies and private users."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"Space maintenance could be made a little more user-friendly."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management while Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Good usability, helpful community support, and facilitates well-structured documentation ". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, IBM FileNet, OpenText Documentum and Box, whereas Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365, SharePoint and Adobe Experience Manager.
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