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."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, controlled documents cannot be edited by anyone else."
"It is stable and reliable."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"The product has a valuable feature for quick verification of documents."
"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."
"What I like the most is the Wiki software that comes with Atlassian Confluence."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"The initial setup is easy."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"The user interface could be improved."
"It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better."
"An area for improvement in Atlassian Confluence is encouraging more vital interaction among the project members or users involved. I was researching a tool that could be used for better interactions offline among users on a specific topic or discussion. That feature would make Atlassian Confluence better."
"It would be good if they can continue working towards making documentation and editing as quick and easy as possible. It has got a lot of capability, but I don't know how to use it. I don't find some of the things that intuitive. Sometimes, it doesn't seem obvious to me how to use it, but it is like learning any new tool. You actually need to get trained on the tool to get maximum out of it."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."
"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."
"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."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
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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