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 extremely intuitive."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"The solution is very intuitive and provides excellent content management."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"It is stable and reliable."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"The initial setup is easy."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"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."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."
"Atlassian Confluence is not really a community-friendly solution."
"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."
"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"Atlassian should rethink its withdrawal of the self-hosted version of the product. They only offer cloud-based service or the "datacenter-edition", which is quite expensive for small companies and private users."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"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."
"No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 98 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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