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 it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"Pricing is not a problem."
"The product has a valuable feature for quick verification of documents."
"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"This is a scalable solution that supports thousands of users."
"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."
"There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"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 enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"The cost of the solution is too high."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."
"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"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 is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"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."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
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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