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."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."
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive."
"The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution."
"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."
"Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file."
"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."
"Adaptable solution with a good interface. It's easy to set up and easy to use."
"I like Office 365's usability."
"The most valuable features of Office 365 are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Teams helped us to collaborate more through its call and document sharing features."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"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."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."
"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it."
"Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application."
"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."
"Data protection and email security are almost the same for all the organizations, irrespective of their segment (SMB or enterprises), with standard subscription at least basic Data loss prevention and Advance threat protection can be enabled for SMB segments, it is available in enterprise version / Premium versions."
"Office 365 could allow for smoother collaboration with other companies, which is the main reason we use it. The B2B connection is something we need, like global adverse lists between two tenants or multiple users. That's what we're missing at the moment."
"It could be more user-friendly for inexperienced people."
"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."
"Using Visual Basic, I have had a lot of trouble with relative paths when programming for Excel, and sometimes it is very difficult to debug programs."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 6th 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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