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 solution helped us to see where we were going wrong and where we were doing good, and that helped us to make proper decisions"
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"Atlassian Confluence is flexible and allows adding different types of context on the page and connecting a hypertext, like a web page, without a source."
"It has a very intuitive user interface, which every user able to manage the basic functionality of a PC will be able to work with and produce quite satisfactory results."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"This is a scalable solution that supports thousands of users."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"The search feature is valuable."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"The product is considered expensive."
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."
"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."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"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."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"The way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets could be improved."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve how information is shared outside our company. We had some negative experiences with the rights we have with our information when sharing it within Atlassian Confluence and with other teams outside the company. It's due to the limitations on the rights we have on the export capabilities. We don't have sufficient rights to do so."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"Replication needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
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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