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."I think that it is one of the best products on the market from my experience."
"The customization that Confluence offers is one of its most useful features. You can customise it based on the specific project you are working on. It also supports multiple languages."
"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."
"What's most valuable to me in Atlassian Confluence is that it allows the concurrent development of documentation. I also like how you can add comments offline and implement changes directly on the document."
"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."
"The ease of use has been one of the most valuable features. It has a very simple wiki."
"Easy to share information and the integration with JIRA is good."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"It is very stable."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"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."
"Tech support tops off as excellent."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"We can arrange all our documents on one platform and see the document's changes and edits."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"They can improve the table feature of Confluence. It is currently not adequate."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"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."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
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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