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."A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"It has a very intuitive user interface, which every user able to manage the basic functionality of a PC will be able to work with and produce quite satisfactory results."
"It seems highly scalable. There are 500 end users using this solution."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"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."
"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."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits."
"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."
"Some macros can be technical, and they are better managed on the Confluence cloud rather than on-premises. For example, when you add an image on the cloud, you can resize it just by using the mouse. This is not the case on-premises yet. You have to write pixels of the size of the image sometimes. Some of the very old macros are still there, and some of them are technical. It can be hard for users if they are not from an IT background to understand how to use them quickly."
"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."
"Atlassian should rethink its withdrawal of the self-hosted version of the product. They only offer cloud-based service or the "datacenter-edition", which is quite expensive for small companies and private users."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve how information is shared outside our company. We had some negative experiences with the rights we have with our information when sharing it within Atlassian Confluence and with other teams outside the company. It's due to the limitations on the rights we have on the export capabilities. We don't have sufficient rights to do so."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."
"Integration needs to be more straightforward, particularly with Azure. SharePoint also needs a more comprehensive introductory course for users."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"The solution lacks collaboration features."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"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."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
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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