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's extremely intuitive."
"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 solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"The most valuable feature is the accessibility from different sites for different colleagues and the search option."
"The best feature is document management."
"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."
"Easy to share information and the integration with JIRA is good."
"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"
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"It's stable. It's very widely used by companies. Also, the knowledge of the product has improved over the years, and by other companies that support it or are Microsoft SharePoint partners. So if there are problems, there's always a user or company that knows the information or can help you; even with very uncommon problems."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"The scalability for larger companies could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Some macros can be technical, and they are better managed on the Confluence cloud rather than on-premises. For example, when you add an image on the cloud, you can resize it just by using the mouse. This is not the case on-premises yet. You have to write pixels of the size of the image sometimes. Some of the very old macros are still there, and some of them are technical. It can be hard for users if they are not from an IT background to understand how to use them quickly."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"The one way in which this solution could be improved is by offering better design and UI."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"The product is considered expensive."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"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."
"Make it more intuitive."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"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."
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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