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 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."
"For me, the most valuable feature is its high performance. It's crucial for us in the bank, as we handle a massive number of transactions every day."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the accessibility from different sites for different colleagues and the search option."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"Information is now available instantly to managers on all devices."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"Atlassian should rethink its withdrawal of the self-hosted version of the product. They only offer cloud-based service or the "datacenter-edition", which is quite expensive for small companies and private users."
"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."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"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."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"The way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets could be improved."
"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."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"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."
"Replication needs improvement."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
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, Box and Hyland OnBase. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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