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."We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"It is stable and reliable."
"The best feature is the automatic tagging of information in documents. The automatic algorithm highlights irrelevant information that conflict with the actual documents."
"The solution helped us to see where we were going wrong and where we were doing good, and that helped us to make proper decisions"
"The ease of use has been one of the most valuable features. It has a very simple wiki."
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"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."
"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."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"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."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"The product is considered expensive."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"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."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"Replication needs improvement."
"Make it more intuitive."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
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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