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."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"For me, the most valuable feature is its high performance. It's crucial for us in the bank, as we handle a massive number of transactions every day."
"The customization that Confluence offers is one of its most useful features. You can customise it based on the specific project you are working on. It also supports multiple languages."
"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."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"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."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."
"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."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better."
"The product is considered expensive."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."
"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."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"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."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"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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