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."Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It is easy to use."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"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 ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"It has an easy to distribute administration capability, and can also scale to meet a large number of future needs."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"Tech support tops off as excellent."
"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."
"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."
"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."
"Confluence cannot replace Microsoft Word at the moment, so even though it can be used as a document management system, it is not meant for document creation, which adds a lot of limitations to it."
"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."
"I would like to see integration with Slack."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"The way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets could be improved."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"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."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."
"The initial setup was very complex."
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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