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'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."
"The most valuable feature is the accessibility from different sites for different colleagues and the search option."
"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."
"For me, the most valuable feature is its high performance. It's crucial for us in the bank, as we handle a massive number of transactions every day."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"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."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"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."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better."
"I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."
"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."
"This is kind of by design, however, the lack of control in terms of editing the page to make it look the way you want it to look is an issue. It would be nice if there was more flexibility there."
"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."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."
"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."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"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 way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."
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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