We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and HCL Connections 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."Atlassian Confluence's most valuable features are the ease in which you can use the tool, the flexibility in creating folder structures, receiving notifications in case others put remarks on the documents, and working together on documents."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"The most valuable features of Atlassian Confluence are version management and search and linkage to the JIRA tickets. They are integrated very well together. You can have links from many places and can easily jump from one to the other. If you want to find all the information about a topic, you only need to click and you receive the information."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the Activity flow that is used to catch new activities."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Confluence cannot replace Microsoft Word at the moment, so even though it can be used as a document management system, it is not meant for document creation, which adds a lot of limitations to it."
"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."
"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."
"Space maintenance could be made a little more user-friendly."
"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."
"When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits."
"Some aspects of the drawing perspective could be improved. When we upgrade a design and make technical architecture drawings to publish, we still use Visio first and then copy and paste it. If this feature were available on Confluence, it would be a useful tool."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"The inclusion of a file plugin for Windows Explorer would make it easier to use."
"The support is an area where the product can improve...If you are having an issue on a Monday, the support personnel will contact you next Monday."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews while HCL Connections is ranked 6th in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 55 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while HCL Connections is rated 8.2. 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 HCL Connections writes "Provides potent document sharing with good integration with the Microsoft desktop and smartphones". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365, SharePoint and Zendesk, whereas HCL Connections is most compared with SharePoint, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft 365 Business. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. HCL Connections report.
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