We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and Box based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Liferay and others in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)."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."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"It is easy to use."
"We value the way we can tag documentation to Jira because we can cross-reference a Jira ticket to a Confluence page, and we can also add a Confluence page to a Jira ticket."
"Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."
"The best feature is document management."
"The most valuable feature is the accessibility from different sites for different colleagues and the search option."
"Atlassian Confluence's most valuable features are the ease in which you can use the tool, the flexibility in creating folder structures, receiving notifications in case others put remarks on the documents, and working together on documents."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"We've never had a penetration. We've never had a security issue that their support didn't solve. We love their audit trail. We can know exactly when a collaborator opens. We love how you can define a collaborator."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"The solution is not very user-friendly."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"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."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."
"The dashboards should be improved."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"I recommend doing the trial first, because it's not cheap ware. It's not overly expensive, but it's not cheap ware, and enterprise has a minimum number of users."
"I haven't really come across a case where we're not able to use it for what it is, so I don't really have anything holding us up or any customers holding us up at this point that I know of. There are always some limitations, but as a technologist, I just live with them, and there is always room for improvement, but I don't have anything quantifiable."
"It could be cheaper."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"Data privacy, regarding where to store your data: Offering several transparent(!) options (where to store my data and whether to sync back or not and where to sync) regarding the local law situations (USA, EU, Switzerland!) would increase the credibility of a US based company (after NSA ‘snooping’)."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews while Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 37 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while Box is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Good usability, helpful community support, and facilitates well-structured documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Box writes "Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint and Jive, whereas Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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