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."A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"It is stable and reliable."
"I love the reports and the Confluence board."
"Confluence is easy to use and integrate with other solutions, including social media platforms."
"I like the documentation. It's a central platform, and there are many things that I can do with it. I'm very pleased about it."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"The product has a valuable feature for quick verification of documents."
"The sharing of information and simple formatting are valuable features. That is, there are no templates, and everything uses one format. This means that people don't need to worry about formatting."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"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."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"Information is much more readily available."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."
"It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better."
"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."
"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"Managing user permissions and credentials could be easier."
"It would be good if they can continue working towards making documentation and editing as quick and easy as possible. It has got a lot of capability, but I don't know how to use it. I don't find some of the things that intuitive. Sometimes, it doesn't seem obvious to me how to use it, but it is like learning any new tool. You actually need to get trained on the tool to get maximum out of it."
"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"Replication needs improvement."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"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."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"The product must provide more automation."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining 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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