We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Atlassian Confluence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"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 of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"The ease of use has been one of the most valuable features. It has a very simple wiki."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"What's most valuable to me in Atlassian Confluence is that it allows the concurrent development of documentation. I also like how you can add comments offline and implement changes directly on the document."
"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."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"Space maintenance could be made a little more user-friendly."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"There is room for improvement in maybe the tree structure for articles. If you have a lot of articles, it becomes difficult to navigate."
"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"The roadmap feature should be made easier to work with and modify. It's not really scalable."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews 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, OpenText Documentum, IBM FileNet and Oracle Content Management, whereas Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint and Zendesk.
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