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 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."
"The best feature is the automatic tagging of information in documents. The automatic algorithm highlights irrelevant information that conflict with the actual documents."
"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"I like the documentation. It's a central platform, and there are many things that I can do with it. I'm very pleased about it."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"The search feature is valuable."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"The way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets could be improved."
"The user interface could be improved."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"The cost of the solution is too high."
"We have to use other applications that make Atlassian Confluence more customized for what you want. They should improve by adding the ability to make more customizations."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"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."
"Make it more intuitive."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
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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