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."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, controlled documents cannot be edited by anyone else."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."
"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."
"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 workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"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."
"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."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"The cost of the solution is too high."
"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."
"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."
"Confluence cannot replace Microsoft Word at the moment, so even though it can be used as a document management system, it is not meant for document creation, which adds a lot of limitations to it."
"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."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"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."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"The initial setup was very complex."
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, WordPress and Hyland OnBase. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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