We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Atlassian Confluence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"Document repository."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"The most valuable feature is the accessibility from different sites for different colleagues and the search option."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"It is easy to use."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"Easy to share information and the integration with JIRA is good."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"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."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"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."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"I have a couple of different pipelines that I work with. However, I'd like to see them displayed differently on the same dashboard. So, I would like to have a unified dashboard to view the different pipelines."
"It lacks ease of integration."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Good usability, helpful community support, and facilitates well-structured documentation ". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Documentum, IBM FileNet and Oracle Content Management, whereas Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint and Zendesk.
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