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 solution is very intuitive and provides excellent content management."
"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"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."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"We can arrange all our documents on one platform and see the document's changes and edits."
"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."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"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."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"The search feature is valuable."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."
"The cost of the solution is too high."
"The search function is not great."
"The price could be improved. I have heard that certain adjustments would be made in 2024 and that it will then be more expensive, but I don't know the specifics."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
"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."
"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."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
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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