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 trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"The solution helped us to see where we were going wrong and where we were doing good, and that helped us to make proper decisions"
"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."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The templates are a valuable feature. You can make templates. There is a space inside where you can create pages. When you use the template, the page auto-generates text and images. You do not have to think about the structure of your page as well, which I think is a very good thing for a user. Because usually when you're in front of a blank page, it can be a bit dreadful to know where to start."
"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 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."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"Information is now available instantly to managers on all devices."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"The user interface could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"The initial setup was very complex."
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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