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."It is easy to use."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"It is a very popular tool."
"The best feature is document management."
"The best feature is the automatic tagging of information in documents. The automatic algorithm highlights irrelevant information that conflict with the actual documents."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news."
"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."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"The online editing capabilities, file sharing, auditing, information security, ease of solution management, and the easy user adaptation to the platform are the most valuable features."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"When you are creating a table in Confluence, there is no tool to export it into Excel sheet for quick references. We can only export it as an a PDF file, but not into an editable file."
"Atlassian Confluence is not really a community-friendly solution."
"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."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"Some aspects of the drawing perspective could be improved. When we upgrade a design and make technical architecture drawings to publish, we still use Visio first and then copy and paste it. If this feature were available on Confluence, it would be a useful tool."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."
"The dashboards should be improved."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"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."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
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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