We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Atlassian Confluence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"The solution is very intuitive and provides excellent content management."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"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"
"I think that it is one of the best products on the market from my experience."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"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."
"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."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"The one way in which this solution could be improved is by offering better design and UI."
"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."
"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."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"An area for improvement in Atlassian Confluence is encouraging more vital interaction among the project members or users involved. I was researching a tool that could be used for better interactions offline among users on a specific topic or discussion. That feature would make Atlassian Confluence better."
"It would be good if they can continue working towards making documentation and editing as quick and easy as possible. It has got a lot of capability, but I don't know how to use it. I don't find some of the things that intuitive. Sometimes, it doesn't seem obvious to me how to use it, but it is like learning any new tool. You actually need to get trained on the tool to get maximum out of it."
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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