We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and Slack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Social Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What's most valuable to me in Atlassian Confluence is that it allows the concurrent development of documentation. I also like how you can add comments offline and implement changes directly on the document."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"It has a very intuitive user interface, which every user able to manage the basic functionality of a PC will be able to work with and produce quite satisfactory results."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence it's very easy to use and there are different options."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"It is just the fact that it is a one-stop shop for all project documentation. It is compared to storing things in files and directories and stuff like that. It provides the overall usability and accessibility of many projects and documents in one area."
"Confluence is easy to use and integrate with other solutions, including social media platforms."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"It offers customization options for various applications, including integrations with Zoom for video calls and a wide range of other integration plugins."
"We use Slack for general communication, conference calls, and sharing screens because we have people working from different countries."
"With respect to being a clean and efficient communications platform, I think that it does the job quite well."
"The product is user-friendly."
"Slack is a powerpack bundle of features that help small or large organizations to handle teams and their tasks."
"Slack is a very stable product."
"It allows to facilitate communication, allowing us to create channels for updates, file sharing, and photo sharing within our team profiles."
"I like Slack's notifications. It is more user-friendly and pleasing than Teams."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"The scalability for larger companies could be improved."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"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."
"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."
"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."
"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"It is difficult to navigate the tool when I log in to two devices and start a video call."
"We do experience issues when trying to log in on Slack."
"Notifications are not as good as they could be (especially for mobile)."
"Slack does not have videoconferencing capabilities, which would have been nice."
"I would like the in-meeting content sharing facility to be improved."
"The tool is a bit slow."
"The solution needs to improve its scalability."
"The solution should have less frequent updates."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Social Software with 99 reviews while Slack is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Social Software with 68 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while Slack 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 Slack writes "A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365, SharePoint and Zoho Learn, whereas Slack is most compared with Symphony, SharePoint, Chatter, ChatWork and Zulip. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. Slack report.
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