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."Pricing is not a problem."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"What's most valuable to me in Atlassian Confluence is that it allows the concurrent development of documentation. I also like how you can add comments offline and implement changes directly on the document."
"The most valuable features of Atlassian Confluence are version management and search and linkage to the JIRA tickets. They are integrated very well together. You can have links from many places and can easily jump from one to the other. If you want to find all the information about a topic, you only need to click and you receive the information."
"The solution helped us to see where we were going wrong and where we were doing good, and that helped us to make proper decisions"
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"This is a scalable solution that supports thousands of users."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"The search feature is valuable."
"When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits."
"They can improve the table feature of Confluence. It is currently not adequate."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"Confluence cannot replace Microsoft Word at the moment, so even though it can be used as a document management system, it is not meant for document creation, which adds a lot of limitations to it."
"Space maintenance could be made a little more user-friendly."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"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."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve."
"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."
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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