We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a very popular tool."
"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"I love the reports and the Confluence board."
"Atlassian Confluence's most valuable features are the ease in which you can use the tool, the flexibility in creating folder structures, receiving notifications in case others put remarks on the documents, and working together on documents."
"Collaboration is most valuable. You can upload or create your documents on Confluence and share them with your team members. Your team members also can share documents."
"What I find the most valuable about Confluence is how easy it is to use."
"Atlassian Confluence is flexible and allows adding different types of context on the page and connecting a hypertext, like a web page, without a source."
"The most valuable features of Atlassian Confluence are version management and search and linkage to the JIRA tickets. They are integrated very well together. You can have links from many places and can easily jump from one to the other. If you want to find all the information about a topic, you only need to click and you receive the information."
"The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution."
"The most valuable feature is the integration between net and mobile devices."
"We use it for documentation management, to collaborate with Microsoft Teams, web calls, web conference calls, chats, and as a documentation repository mainly. We have an Office pack suite to be able to write documentation, make spreadsheets, and create PowerPoints."
"There are no more server and hardware operational costs and downtime, updates, etc. for all the workloads available. Newer features and updates are available immediately. Can be managed from a single web interface. Cloud-based, so same experience for all users, regardless of location."
"I like Office 365's usability."
"There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is that it has many solutions bundled together."
"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."
"It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"The solution is not very user-friendly."
"It lacks ease of integration."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."
"We have found that, with Teams, if you are including one more person who is not in the company ecosystem, supposedly I'm inviting them as a guest in the chat. However, when I do that, I can't share files."
"Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android."
"Performance-wise, Office 365 needs a lot of bandwidth. The problem is, the solution requires very high bandwidth and internet usage. Meaning, the desktop application consumes a lot of internet data. Sometimes, when the connection is slow, it won't work and it won't load. This is an area for improvement for Office 365."
"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."
"The integration with mobile services is not so good. It's coming, but they could improve a lot."
"Improvements can be made to the products generic offering. It's not customized for health care. It doesn't understand the meaning of health care related concepts. Providing a greater degree of industry specificity would make the tool much more unique and valuable."
"The feature to convert PDF file to a Word document needs improvement as well as the feature to save the file automatically when typing, without using the save command."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 8th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Good usability, helpful community support, and facilitates well-structured documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Zendesk and Zoho Learn, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. Office 365 report.
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