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 feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"It's easy to search for information."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"What I like the most is the Wiki software that comes with Atlassian Confluence."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"This is a scalable solution that supports thousands of users."
"The templates are a valuable feature. You can make templates. There is a space inside where you can create pages. When you use the template, the page auto-generates text and images. You do not have to think about the structure of your page as well, which I think is a very good thing for a user. Because usually when you're in front of a blank page, it can be a bit dreadful to know where to start."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"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 facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"The dashboards should be improved."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve how information is shared outside our company. We had some negative experiences with the rights we have with our information when sharing it within Atlassian Confluence and with other teams outside the company. It's due to the limitations on the rights we have on the export capabilities. We don't have sufficient rights to do so."
"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"Atlassian should rethink its withdrawal of the self-hosted version of the product. They only offer cloud-based service or the "datacenter-edition", which is quite expensive for small companies and private users."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"Replication needs improvement."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."
"Make it more intuitive."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 42 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 17 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Flexible, efficient, allows the concurrent development of documentation and lets you add comments offline". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Stable and scalable collaboration system; good for document and file sharing, and offers fast issue resolution from its support team". 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 OpenText Content Manager. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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