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."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 customization that Confluence offers is one of its most useful features. You can customise it based on the specific project you are working on. It also supports multiple languages."
"It seems highly scalable. There are 500 end users using this solution."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"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."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"Tech support tops off as excellent."
"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."
"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."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"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."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"When we import the data in Confluence from Word or any other document, the formatting is not correct."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"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."
"This is kind of by design, however, the lack of control in terms of editing the page to make it look the way you want it to look is an issue. It would be nice if there was more flexibility there."
"The product is considered expensive."
"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."
"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Integration needs to be more straightforward, particularly with Azure. SharePoint also needs a more comprehensive introductory course for users."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
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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