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."What I find the most valuable about Confluence is how easy it is to use."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"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."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"Atlassian Confluence is flexible and allows adding different types of context on the page and connecting a hypertext, like a web page, without a source."
"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 templates are a valuable feature. You can make templates. There is a space inside where you can create pages. When you use the template, the page auto-generates text and images. You do not have to think about the structure of your page as well, which I think is a very good thing for a user. Because usually when you're in front of a blank page, it can be a bit dreadful to know where to start."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"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."
"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."
"The security feature is valuable."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"It is very stable."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."
"The one way in which this solution could be improved is by offering better design and UI."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."
"They can improve the table feature of Confluence. It is currently not adequate."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"The search function is not great."
"The dashboards should be improved."
"The cost of the solution is too high."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"The solution lacks collaboration features."
"The product must provide more automation."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
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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