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."This is a scalable solution that supports thousands of users."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"What I like the most is the Wiki software that comes with Atlassian Confluence."
"There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."
"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 most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Information is now available instantly to managers on all devices."
"It has an easy to distribute administration capability, and can also scale to meet a large number of future needs."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"The solution is not very user-friendly."
"It would be good if they can continue working towards making documentation and editing as quick and easy as possible. It has got a lot of capability, but I don't know how to use it. I don't find some of the things that intuitive. Sometimes, it doesn't seem obvious to me how to use it, but it is like learning any new tool. You actually need to get trained on the tool to get maximum out of it."
"Some aspects of the drawing perspective could be improved. When we upgrade a design and make technical architecture drawings to publish, we still use Visio first and then copy and paste it. If this feature were available on Confluence, it would be a useful tool."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"There are some limitations on storage."
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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