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 offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"It has a very intuitive user interface, which every user able to manage the basic functionality of a PC will be able to work with and produce quite satisfactory results."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, controlled documents cannot be edited by anyone else."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"The security feature is valuable."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"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."
"It's stable. It's very widely used by companies. Also, the knowledge of the product has improved over the years, and by other companies that support it or are Microsoft SharePoint partners. So if there are problems, there's always a user or company that knows the information or can help you; even with very uncommon problems."
"What I like about SharePoint is that they keep up with a lot of updates, and they bring out new features. I also like that the system is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of apps."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"The product must provide more automation."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
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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