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."The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"Document repository."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"The product has a valuable feature for quick verification of documents."
"The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"The best feature is document management."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"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."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"The way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets could be improved."
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."
"When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits."
"There is room for improvement in maybe the tree structure for articles. If you have a lot of articles, it becomes difficult to navigate."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"The roadmap feature should be made easier to work with and modify. It's not really scalable."
"They can improve the table feature of Confluence. It is currently not adequate."
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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