We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Atlassian Confluence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"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 solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"It is easy to use."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."
"I think that it is one of the best products on the market from my experience."
"I love the reports and the Confluence board."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"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."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"The dashboards should be improved."
"Space maintenance could be made a little more user-friendly."
"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."
"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"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."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
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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