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."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"Document repository."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The solution helped us to see where we were going wrong and where we were doing good, and that helped us to make proper decisions"
"It is stable and reliable."
"It's easy to search for information."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the accessibility from different sites for different colleagues and the search option."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"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."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"The way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets could be improved."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 95 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 Extended ECM, OpenText Documentum and Microsoft Purview Records Management, whereas Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint and Zendesk.
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