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."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 integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"We value the way we can tag documentation to Jira because we can cross-reference a Jira ticket to a Confluence page, and we can also add a Confluence page to a Jira ticket."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"What I like the most is the Wiki software that comes with Atlassian Confluence."
"We can arrange all our documents on one platform and see the document's changes and edits."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"The security feature is valuable."
"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."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."
"They can improve the table feature of Confluence. It is currently not adequate."
"The one way in which this solution could be improved is by offering better design and UI."
"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."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"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 product is considered expensive."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"The solution lacks collaboration features."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"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."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 98 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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