We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and SharePoint 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 seems highly scalable. There are 500 end users using this solution."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"It's easy to search for information."
"It is stable and reliable."
"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 solution is very intuitive and provides excellent content management."
"The product has a valuable feature for quick verification of documents."
"Easy to share information and the integration with JIRA is good."
"SharePoint is easy to collaborate with."
"Its most valuable feature is the document library."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news."
"The search feature is valuable."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"It lacks ease of integration."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve how information is shared outside our company. We had some negative experiences with the rights we have with our information when sharing it within Atlassian Confluence and with other teams outside the company. It's due to the limitations on the rights we have on the export capabilities. We don't have sufficient rights to do so."
"The search function is not great."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"Confluence cannot replace Microsoft Word at the moment, so even though it can be used as a document management system, it is not meant for document creation, which adds a lot of limitations to it."
"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"The navigation is confusing."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"One issue is that when users mistakenly hide files or set permissions incorrectly, it can lead to files becoming inaccessible, requiring intervention from Microsoft support to resolve."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 150 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365, Zendesk and Zoho Learn, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox and WordPress. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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