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 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."
"Document repository."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"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's easy to search for information."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"Some aspects of the drawing perspective could be improved. When we upgrade a design and make technical architecture drawings to publish, we still use Visio first and then copy and paste it. If this feature were available on Confluence, it would be a useful tool."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"Atlassian Confluence is not really a community-friendly solution."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
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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