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 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."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"I love the reports and the Confluence board."
"What I find the most valuable about Confluence is how easy it is to use."
"The most valuable features of Atlassian Confluence are version management and search and linkage to the JIRA tickets. They are integrated very well together. You can have links from many places and can easily jump from one to the other. If you want to find all the information about a topic, you only need to click and you receive the information."
"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."
"Pricing is not a problem."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The online editing capabilities, file sharing, auditing, information security, ease of solution management, and the easy user adaptation to the platform are the most valuable features."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"I have a couple of different pipelines that I work with. However, I'd like to see them displayed differently on the same dashboard. So, I would like to have a unified dashboard to view the different pipelines."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."
"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."
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."
"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."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
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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