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 most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The interface is good....I didn't face any issues with the scalability. It was 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."
"The best feature is document management."
"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 has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"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."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"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 dashboards should be improved."
"The roadmap feature should be made easier to work with and modify. It's not really scalable."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."
"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."
"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."
"Integration needs to be more straightforward, particularly with Azure. SharePoint also needs a more comprehensive introductory course for users."
"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."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"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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