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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.
To learn more, read our detailed Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint Report (Updated: March 2024).
763,955 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "For us, it's free to use. We don't pay any licensing."
  • "When you purchase this solution you get some support."
  • "The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons."
  • "The price of the on-premises data center version is too expensive."
  • "Licenses are quite expensive"
  • "There is an annual license."
  • "Pricing wise, it ends up being an expensive solution. In the beginning it's cheap, but by the time you have all the functions you need, it turns out to be expensive."
  • "We have a site license for Atlassian Confluence and there are some limitations on external users."
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  • "As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."
  • "Licensing can be by server or by seat."
  • "It is very expensive.​"
  • "The data classification and search elements are cheap."
  • "The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."
  • "We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."
  • "The cost is expensive, but worthwhile."
  • "The pricing works for us."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:When it comes to affordability, I give it an eight out of ten. It's reasonably priced since many people are using it.
    Top Answer:Atlassian Confluence is not really a community-friendly solution. If you have a company, you'll have a license for each person, but it does not have such features as commenters. For example, Jira… more »
    Top Answer:Alfresco scores are high on all features of an ECM solution and tools.   Back office processing, rated as 3.36 good.  Business Process Application 3.55 Good to excellent.  Document Management 4.12… more »
    Top Answer:The pricing is competitive. That's why almost all the companies are using SharePoint. I rate the pricing a ten out of ten. When we buy the license, the person buying must be well-educated on how the… more »
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    Also Known As
    Confluence
    SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
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    Overview

    Project management is easy with Atlassian's Confluence as your single source of truth. It integrates with JIRA so you can easily add context to your projects in one central location. Create and track issues & product requirements, publish release reports, track release progress, and more when you connect Confluence and JIRA. Confluence allows you to create, share, evolve, and capture your team's project documentation so you can collaborate better, smarter, and as a team.

    Confluence also organizes your powerful repository of information, opinions, and knowledge to help you answer questions, create how-to docs, and possibly identify the next big thing. Logical and consistent management of knowledge and a powerful search engine ensure that you can always find the right content, when you need it most. Share, organize, and discover content all in one platform.

    Confluence has multiple deployment options to provide the flexibility your organization needs.

    Cloud is a fully hosted service for customers who want to iterate quickly and have us take care of managing the infrastructure.

    For customers who need to run our applications behind their firewall, we have Server and Data Center options. Server delivers greater capacity for a larger user base and gives you more control, allowing you to remain compliant with your enterprise IT, security, IP and privacy policies. For our largest customers, Data Center provides all the capability of our Server option, along with high availability, instant scalability and performance at scale.

    Atlassian also offers premium support and strategic services for enterprise customers. Technical Account Managers are cross-functional technical advisors providing proactive planning and strategic guidance across your organization. Premier Support goes above and beyond our standard offerings to give you account-wide support from a team of senior support engineers.

    SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

    Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

    Sample Customers
    Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
    Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Cloud Provider6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization64%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Manufacturing Company4%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    University8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government12%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise68%
    Large Enterprise25%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise39%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise60%
    Buyer's Guide
    Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    763,955 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    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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