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."I think that it is one of the best products on the market from my experience."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Confluence is easy to use and integrate with other solutions, including social media platforms."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"For me, the most valuable feature is its high performance. It's crucial for us in the bank, as we handle a massive number of transactions every day."
"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."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"Information is much more readily available."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"This is kind of by design, however, the lack of control in terms of editing the page to make it look the way you want it to look is an issue. It would be nice if there was more flexibility there."
"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."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"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."
"The cost of the solution is too high."
"It lacks ease of integration."
"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."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"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."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Replication needs improvement."
"Make it more intuitive."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
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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