We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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"
"Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"Easy to share information and the integration with JIRA is good."
"I think that it is one of the best products on the market from my experience."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"It is well supported by Microsoft."
"The roadmap feature should be made easier to work with and modify. It's not really scalable."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"The product is considered expensive."
"The price could be improved. I have heard that certain adjustments would be made in 2024 and that it will then be more expensive, but I don't know the specifics."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"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."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 146 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive, Zendesk and Slack, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and Hyland OnBase. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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