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 features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"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."
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"The ease of use has been one of the most valuable features. It has a very simple wiki."
"Confluence is easy to use and integrate with other solutions, including social media platforms."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"It is very stable."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"The search function is not great."
"The solution is not very user-friendly."
"It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"Some macros can be technical, and they are better managed on the Confluence cloud rather than on-premises. For example, when you add an image on the cloud, you can resize it just by using the mouse. This is not the case on-premises yet. You have to write pixels of the size of the image sometimes. Some of the very old macros are still there, and some of them are technical. It can be hard for users if they are not from an IT background to understand how to use them quickly."
"The way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in maybe the tree structure for articles. If you have a lot of articles, it becomes difficult to navigate."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"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."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
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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