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."With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"It is a very popular tool."
"There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."
"What I like the most is the Wiki software that comes with Atlassian Confluence."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"It's easy to search for information."
"The best feature is document management."
"What I like about SharePoint is that they keep up with a lot of updates, and they bring out new features. I also like that the system is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of apps."
"Tech support tops off as excellent."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"We have to use other applications that make Atlassian Confluence more customized for what you want. They should improve by adding the ability to make more customizations."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"I would like to see integration with Slack."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"The roadmap feature should be made easier to work with and modify. It's not really scalable."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"One issue is that when users mistakenly hide files or set permissions incorrectly, it can lead to files becoming inaccessible, requiring intervention from Microsoft support to resolve."
"The solution lacks collaboration features."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"The product must provide more automation."
"Integration needs to be more straightforward, particularly with Azure. SharePoint also needs a more comprehensive introductory course for users."
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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