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 best feature is document management."
"The ease of use has been one of the most valuable features. It has a very simple wiki."
"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."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."
"What I find the most valuable about Confluence is how easy it is to use."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"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."
"It is very stable."
"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."
"The price could be improved. I have heard that certain adjustments would be made in 2024 and that it will then be more expensive, but I don't know the specifics."
"Atlassian Confluence is not really a community-friendly solution."
"It lacks ease of integration."
"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"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."
"The search function is not great."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"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."
"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."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
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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