We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and Freshdesk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Knowledge Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"Collaboration is most valuable. You can upload or create your documents on Confluence and share them with your team members. Your team members also can share documents."
"For me, the most valuable feature is its high performance. It's crucial for us in the bank, as we handle a massive number of transactions every day."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, controlled documents cannot be edited by anyone else."
"We value the way we can tag documentation to Jira because we can cross-reference a Jira ticket to a Confluence page, and we can also add a Confluence page to a Jira ticket."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"It's easy to use and integrates with other tools. We can embed Jira into it, link Jira tickets with Freshdesk tickets, and use it for our knowledge base."
"Their knowledge base is phenomenal. The way that it learns from our users is awesome, and responses are really awesome as well. It does a pretty good job of picking up what's needed. The knowledge bases are great."
"It is quite easy to program custom apps and integrate them."
"We have made use of the training academy and the technical support team from Freshdesk. Both have been very good resources."
"The organization that is possible with other departments is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Omnichannel is one of the most valuable features of the solution."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. It is easy and simple, and it requires negligible training effort. I don't spend all my time goofing around trying to find stuff in the ticketing system."
"It is very easy to make reports."
"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."
"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."
"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."
"They can improve the table feature of Confluence. It is currently not adequate."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"An area for improvement in Atlassian Confluence is encouraging more vital interaction among the project members or users involved. I was researching a tool that could be used for better interactions offline among users on a specific topic or discussion. That feature would make Atlassian Confluence better."
"Having so many tags makes everyday work a lot more complicated, and a lot more time-consuming."
"The dashboards are useful but could be so much better. As a product manager, and data scientist, we couldn't use the dashboard for analytics and had to move the data in Power BI."
"I would like to see improvements in the account management aspect, having a customer portal for better visibility into my subscription, invoices, and trouble tickets."
"Freshdesk could improve its capabilities. It's missing the article formatting, and the overall look and feel make it not easy to use. The administration instructions on how to manage the automation, capability, and integration with third parties, such as chat or bots, are very important in these types of solutions."
"It would be helpful to pull reports or schedule them based on agents, users, ticket numbers, or responses."
"We have many cases where a ticket comes in, and it ends up having multiple team members working on it. It would be really nice to be able to assign a single ticket to multiple people, rather than having to create the parent-child hierarchy that they have set up. It generates a proliferation of tickets that I really don't want to have. Having to jump from a parent to one child and then to another child makes it harder for me to be able to see the entire case from end to end. A simple example is our new hire process or our termination process. We have people who leave. We also have people who come on board. We have got multiple people participating and doing things related to the leaving or onboarding process. Currently, I have to go to different tickets to be able to see whether all tasks are really done or not. If I could assign lots of people to one ticket, it would be really nice."
"If Freshdesk had forms in it so that I could go to the portal and fill out a service request, that would improve it immensely and make it more valuable for enterprise customers, but that's not a current functionality. You can't have a certain catalog of any type. You can't be like, "Hey, I want to just go submit a ticket," and then type in. You can't prompt them to ask anything. It is just a blank form."
"While it's good for a small number of tickets, definitely in the future, we will require something more powerful."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 1st in Knowledge Management Software with 99 reviews while Freshdesk is ranked 3rd in Knowledge Management Software with 27 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while Freshdesk is rated 8.4. 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 Freshdesk writes "Incredibly user-friendly, flexible, and affordable". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365 and SharePoint, whereas Freshdesk is most compared with JIRA Service Management, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Spiceworks and BoldDesk. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. Freshdesk report.
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