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 features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"The most valuable feature is the accessibility from different sites for different colleagues and the search option."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"Atlassian Confluence's most valuable features are the ease in which you can use the tool, the flexibility in creating folder structures, receiving notifications in case others put remarks on the documents, and working together on documents."
"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."
"The best feature is document management."
"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 workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"Information is much more readily available."
"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."
"What I like about SharePoint is that they keep up with a lot of updates, and they bring out new features. I also like that the system is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of apps."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"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."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"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."
"The solution is not very user-friendly."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"The dashboards should be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"One issue is that when users mistakenly hide files or set permissions incorrectly, it can lead to files becoming inaccessible, requiring intervention from Microsoft support to resolve."
"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."
"Make it more intuitive."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 42 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 17 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Flexible, efficient, allows the concurrent development of documentation and lets you add comments offline". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Stable and scalable collaboration system; good for document and file sharing, and offers fast issue resolution from its support team". 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 OpenText Content Manager. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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