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We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Atlassian Confluence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way.""Document repository.""I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar.""The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."

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"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs.""Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve.​""The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online.""Pricing is not a problem.""It's easy to search for information.""I like the documentation. It's a central platform, and there are many things that I can do with it. I'm very pleased about it.""Atlassian Confluence is flexible and allows adding different types of context on the page and connecting a hypertext, like a web page, without a source.""The interface is good....I didn't face any issues with the scalability. It was very good."

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Cons
"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."

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"They can improve the table feature of Confluence. It is currently not adequate.""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 have a couple of different pipelines that I work with. However, I'd like to see them displayed differently on the same dashboard. So, I would like to have a unified dashboard to view the different pipelines.""The user interface is a little bit stale. The file attachments and how they work could be improved. There is also room for improvement when it comes to CDNs.""When you are creating a table in Confluence, there is no tool to export it into Excel sheet for quick references. We can only export it as an a PDF file, but not into an editable file.""An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize.""The solution is not very user-friendly.""We would like there to be more advanced data manipulation features available in this solution, such as creating more complex charts, and a column freezing option."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is cheaper compared to head-to-head competitors."
  • "There are costs for any upgrade or additional functions."
  • "If you buy Alfresco through a partner, there is usually a OEM licensing option."
  • "The license for Alfresco is expensive - not the maximum, but close. There are also extra costs once you start building integrations, as implementation seems to be very costly."
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  • "For us, it's free to use. We don't pay any licensing."
  • "When you purchase this solution you get some support."
  • "The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons."
  • "The price of the on-premises data center version is too expensive."
  • "Licenses are quite expensive"
  • "There is an annual license."
  • "Pricing wise, it ends up being an expensive solution. In the beginning it's cheap, but by the time you have all the functions you need, it turns out to be expensive."
  • "We have a site license for Atlassian Confluence and there are some limitations on external users."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Alfresco scores are high on all features of an ECM solution and tools.   Back office processing, rated as 3.36 good.  Business Process Application 3.55 Good to excellent.  Document Management 4.12… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata.
    Top Answer:The license for Alfresco is expensive - not the maximum, but close. There are also extra costs once you start building integrations, as implementation seems to be very costly.
    Top Answer:Atlassian Confluence is flexible and allows adding different types of context on the page and connecting a hypertext, like a web page, without a source.
    Top Answer:When it comes to affordability, I give it an eight out of ten. It's reasonably priced since many people are using it.
    Top Answer:Atlassian Confluence is not really a community-friendly solution. If you have a company, you'll have a license for each person, but it does not have such features as commenters. For example, Jira… more »
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    Overview

    The Alfresco Digital Business Platform offers open, secure content services to let you unlock the value from your most important business information. Give users access to their content wherever and however they work with Alfresco’s open, flexible, and highly scalable cloud-native content services platform. Easily integrate and connect with everyday business applications. Find, view, collaborate on, govern, and securely share digital content—and get information to the right person at the right time.

    Project management is easy with Atlassian's Confluence as your single source of truth. It integrates with JIRA so you can easily add context to your projects in one central location. Create and track issues & product requirements, publish release reports, track release progress, and more when you connect Confluence and JIRA. Confluence allows you to create, share, evolve, and capture your team's project documentation so you can collaborate better, smarter, and as a team.

    Confluence also organizes your powerful repository of information, opinions, and knowledge to help you answer questions, create how-to docs, and possibly identify the next big thing. Logical and consistent management of knowledge and a powerful search engine ensure that you can always find the right content, when you need it most. Share, organize, and discover content all in one platform.

    Confluence has multiple deployment options to provide the flexibility your organization needs.

    Cloud is a fully hosted service for customers who want to iterate quickly and have us take care of managing the infrastructure.

    For customers who need to run our applications behind their firewall, we have Server and Data Center options. Server delivers greater capacity for a larger user base and gives you more control, allowing you to remain compliant with your enterprise IT, security, IP and privacy policies. For our largest customers, Data Center provides all the capability of our Server option, along with high availability, instant scalability and performance at scale.

    Atlassian also offers premium support and strategic services for enterprise customers. Technical Account Managers are cross-functional technical advisors providing proactive planning and strategic guidance across your organization. Premier Support goes above and beyond our standard offerings to give you account-wide support from a team of senior support engineers.

    Sample Customers
    Over 1,300 companies from 180 different countries. Including EuroStar, Saks Fifth Avenue, NASA Langley Research Center, and KLM.
    Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government13%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company10%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization64%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Manufacturing Company4%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business80%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise68%
    Large Enterprise25%
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    Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 1 review while Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 42 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 "Flexible, efficient, allows the concurrent development of documentation and lets you add comments offline". 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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