We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and Slack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Social Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I love the reports and the Confluence board."
"For me, the most valuable feature is its high performance. It's crucial for us in the bank, as we handle a massive number of transactions every day."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"The sharing of information and simple formatting are valuable features. That is, there are no templates, and everything uses one format. This means that people don't need to worry about formatting."
"It is just the fact that it is a one-stop shop for all project documentation. It is compared to storing things in files and directories and stuff like that. It provides the overall usability and accessibility of many projects and documents in one area."
"The huddle feature is valuable to me."
"Slack is a very stable product."
"It allows to facilitate communication, allowing us to create channels for updates, file sharing, and photo sharing within our team profiles."
"You can create channels between teams internally and externally, which is great. There is a lot of security with Slack internal, which is what I value."
"I use Slack for communication with my colleagues."
"When we work with a platform like Slack, we can have one source without merging different document versions."
"With respect to being a clean and efficient communications platform, I think that it does the job quite well."
"It offers customization options for various applications, including integrations with Zoom for video calls and a wide range of other integration plugins."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"Atlassian Confluence is not really a community-friendly solution."
"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."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"The product is considered expensive."
"When you are creating a table in Confluence, there is no tool to export it into Excel sheet for quick references. We can only export it as an a PDF file, but not into an editable file."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"The way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets could be improved."
"For me, the only thing I can say is that every time somebody sent me an attachment, the attachment was listed somewhere, and then I had to open the conversation and go to the individual to open it. So there is no handy repository or an easy way to quickly look at attachments. For me, that was a bit difficult."
"Slack should add a feature to schedule meetings."
"The solution needs to improve its scalability."
"Slack feels clustered and hence it should improve its design and UI."
"The UI could be a little bit better."
"When scaled on a large scale, the solution's cost becomes a matter of concern for organizations."
"Sometimes there are login issues."
"Sometimes, the servers are not available."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Social Software with 99 reviews while Slack is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Social Software with 68 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while Slack 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 Slack writes "A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365, SharePoint and OpenText Documentum, whereas Slack is most compared with Symphony, SharePoint, ChatWork, Chatter and Zulip. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. Slack report.
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