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."It's easy to search for information."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"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."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"Easy to share information and the integration with JIRA is good."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits."
"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."
"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."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."
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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