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 interface is good....I didn't face any issues with the scalability. It was very 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 of Atlassian Confluence are version management and search and linkage to the JIRA tickets. They are integrated very well together. You can have links from many places and can easily jump from one to the other. If you want to find all the information about a topic, you only need to click and you receive the information."
"It is easy to use."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"The product has a valuable feature for quick verification of documents."
"It is well supported by Microsoft."
"Its most valuable feature is the document library."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"The user interface is a little bit stale. The file attachments and how they work could be improved. There is also room for improvement when it comes to CDNs."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve how information is shared outside our company. We had some negative experiences with the rights we have with our information when sharing it within Atlassian Confluence and with other teams outside the company. It's due to the limitations on the rights we have on the export capabilities. We don't have sufficient rights to do so."
"The product is considered expensive."
"It lacks ease of integration."
"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."
"Integration needs to be more straightforward, particularly with Azure. SharePoint also needs a more comprehensive introductory course for users."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"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."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 95 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 M-Files. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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