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 is stable."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"The best feature is document management."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the accessibility from different sites for different colleagues and the search option."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"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."
"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."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"The roadmap feature should be made easier to work with and modify. It's not really scalable."
"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."
"The search function is not great."
"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"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 integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
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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