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."It is a very popular tool."
"We value the way we can tag documentation to Jira because we can cross-reference a Jira ticket to a Confluence page, and we can also add a Confluence page to a Jira ticket."
"I think that it is one of the best products on the market from my experience."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"Collaboration is most valuable. You can upload or create your documents on Confluence and share them with your team members. Your team members also can share documents."
"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 interface is good....I didn't face any issues with the scalability. It was very good."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"The security feature is valuable."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"The product is considered expensive."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"The dashboards should be improved."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"The user interface is a little bit stale. The file attachments and how they work could be improved. There is also room for improvement when it comes to CDNs."
"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."
"They can improve the table feature of Confluence. It is currently not adequate."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"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 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."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"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."
"Replication needs improvement."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 42 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 17 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Flexible, efficient, allows the concurrent development of documentation and lets you add comments offline". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Stable and scalable collaboration system; good for document and file sharing, and offers fast issue resolution from its support team". 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 OpenText Content Manager. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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