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."With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance."
"It is a very popular tool."
"It is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Atlassian Confluence are version management and search and linkage to the JIRA tickets. They are integrated very well together. You can have links from many places and can easily jump from one to the other. If you want to find all the information about a topic, you only need to click and you receive the information."
"It is just the fact that it is a one-stop shop for all project documentation. It is compared to storing things in files and directories and stuff like that. It provides the overall usability and accessibility of many projects and documents in one area."
"There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"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."
"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."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"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."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"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 most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"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."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"The user interface is a little bit stale. The file attachments and how they work could be improved. There is also room for improvement when it comes to CDNs."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"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."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 95 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 M-Files. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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