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."It is stable and reliable."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance."
"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 most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"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."
"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."
"The security feature is valuable."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"It has made us faster and more efficient."
"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 scalability for larger companies could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"The search function is not great."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"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."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"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."
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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