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."As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"The interface is good....I didn't face any issues with the scalability. It was very good."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"What I find the most valuable about Confluence is how easy it is to use."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance."
"The ease of use has been one of the most valuable features. It has a very simple wiki."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"Its most valuable feature is the document library."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"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."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"The initial setup is easy."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The search function is not great."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"Atlassian should rethink its withdrawal of the self-hosted version of the product. They only offer cloud-based service or the "datacenter-edition", which is quite expensive for small companies and private users."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"This is kind of by design, however, the lack of control in terms of editing the page to make it look the way you want it to look is an issue. It would be nice if there was more flexibility there."
"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."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"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, WordPress and Hyland OnBase. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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