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 offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"Atlassian Confluence's most valuable features are the ease in which you can use the tool, the flexibility in creating folder structures, receiving notifications in case others put remarks on the documents, and working together on documents."
"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 is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, controlled documents cannot be edited by anyone else."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"It is well supported by Microsoft."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"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 facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"The security feature is valuable."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"The cost of the solution is too high."
"Space maintenance could be made a little more user-friendly."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"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 is not really a community-friendly solution."
"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."
"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
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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