We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Atlassian Confluence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."Document repository."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, controlled documents cannot be edited by anyone else."
"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."
"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"The customization that Confluence offers is one of its most useful features. You can customise it based on the specific project you are working on. It also supports multiple languages."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"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."
"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"It would be good if they can continue working towards making documentation and editing as quick and easy as possible. It has got a lot of capability, but I don't know how to use it. I don't find some of the things that intuitive. Sometimes, it doesn't seem obvious to me how to use it, but it is like learning any new tool. You actually need to get trained on the tool to get maximum out of it."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"The dashboards should be improved."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"An area for improvement in Atlassian Confluence is encouraging more vital interaction among the project members or users involved. I was researching a tool that could be used for better interactions offline among users on a specific topic or discussion. That feature would make Atlassian Confluence better."
"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."
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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