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."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 integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"The sharing of information and simple formatting are valuable features. That is, there are no templates, and everything uses one format. This means that people don't need to worry about formatting."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"The security feature is valuable."
"The search feature is valuable."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"An area for improvement in Atlassian Confluence is encouraging more vital interaction among the project members or users involved. I was researching a tool that could be used for better interactions offline among users on a specific topic or discussion. That feature would make Atlassian Confluence better."
"We would like there to be more advanced data manipulation features available in this solution, such as creating more complex charts, and a column freezing option."
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."
"We have to use other applications that make Atlassian Confluence more customized for what you want. They should improve by adding the ability to make more customizations."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like to see integration with Slack."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"Replication needs improvement."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 95 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 M-Files. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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