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 most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"It seems highly scalable. There are 500 end users using this solution."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Pricing is not a problem."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"We value the way we can tag documentation to Jira because we can cross-reference a Jira ticket to a Confluence page, and we can also add a Confluence page to a Jira ticket."
"It is a very popular tool."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"The price could be improved. I have heard that certain adjustments would be made in 2024 and that it will then be more expensive, but I don't know the specifics."
"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"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."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"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."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"The product must provide more automation."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"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."
"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."
"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 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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