Compare Atlassian Confluence vs. Box
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables." "It's extremely intuitive." "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." "The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good." "It is easy to use." "There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs." "It integrates well with other Atlassian products" "The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts." | "The first thing that we liked about this solution is that administrators do not have access to private folders." "The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files." "The interface is very good." "Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint." "We've never had a penetration. We've never had a security issue that their support didn't solve. We love their audit trail. We can know exactly when a collaborator opens. We love how you can define a collaborator." "Governance and ease of use are why I think a lot of people like Box, including ourselves. Basically, we're concerned about what information is being sent to Box, so we use a lot of the Box governance features to make sure that what is being sent to Box is appropriate. If it is not appropriate, it is not allowed to be sent. It is also pretty easy to use. It is the easiest to use for customers and for technologists." |
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"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable." "The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at." "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." "This is kind of by design, however, the lack of control in terms of editing the page to make it look the way you want it to look is an issue. It would be nice if there was more flexibility there." "The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box." "Space maintenance could be made a little more user-friendly." "I would like to see integration with Slack." "It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better." | "I would like to see improvements made in the ability to integrate with other online sharing systems." "Better integration with other solutions is needed." "The integration with other products should be improved." "The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents." "I recommend doing the trial first, because it's not cheap ware. It's not overly expensive, but it's not cheap ware, and enterprise has a minimum number of users." "I haven't really come across a case where we're not able to use it for what it is, so I don't really have anything holding us up or any customers holding us up at this point that I know of. There are always some limitations, but as a technologist, I just live with them, and there is always room for improvement, but I don't have anything quantifiable." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"For us, it's free to use. We don't pay any licensing." "When you purchase this solution you get some support." "The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons." | "The pricing of this solution is better than Dropbox." "I believe Box is cheaper than SharePoint." "They are very price competitive when pushed. Initially, they come out with a standard list price, but they are willing to be very competitive. The Box price was pretty much equal to or lower than the Citrix price, and Box has more features." |
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Ask a question Earn 20 points | Top Answer: The integration with other products should be improved. Top Answer: We use Box as a cloud-based storage service for our employees. We are using it to share documents, such as presentations, between people. Some of our customers have many gigabytes in files and we set… more » |
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Views 9,748 Comparisons 8,116 Reviews 10 Average Words per Review 476 Rating 8.5 | Views 9,447 Comparisons 7,633 Reviews 5 Average Words per Review 583 Rating 8.2 |
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| Confluence | |
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| Atlassian | Box |
Overview | |
Project management is easy with Atlassian's Confluence as your single source of truth. It integrates with JIRA so you can easily add context to your projects in one central location. Create and track issues & product requirements, publish release reports, track release progress, and more when you connect Confluence and JIRA. Confluence allows you to create, share, evolve, and capture your team's project documentation so you can collaborate better, smarter, and as a team. Confluence also organizes your powerful repository of information, opinions, and knowledge to help you answer questions, create how-to docs, and possibly identify the next big thing. Logical and consistent management of knowledge and a powerful search engine ensure that you can always find the right content, when you need it most. Share, organize, and discover content all in one platform. Confluence has multiple deployment options to provide the flexibility your organization needs. Cloud is a fully hosted service for customers who want to iterate quickly and have us take care of managing the infrastructure. For customers who need to run our applications behind their firewall, we have Server and Data Center options. Server delivers greater capacity for a larger user base and gives you more control, allowing you to remain compliant with your enterprise IT, security, IP and privacy policies. For our largest customers, Data Center provides all the capability of our Server option, along with high availability, instant scalability and performance at scale. Atlassian also offers premium support and strategic services for enterprise customers. Technical Account Managers are cross-functional technical advisors providing proactive planning and strategic guidance across your organization. Premier Support goes above and beyond our standard offerings to give you account-wide support from a team of senior support engineers. | Box is a Modern Content Management Platform for companies of all sizes and industries. The difference that Box brings is that it offers the security and controls admins need with the sharing and collaboration capabilities end users want. Since 2005, Box has made it easier for people to securely share ideas, collaborate and get work done faster. Today, more than 43 million users and 62,000 businesses--including 59% of the Fortune 500--trust Box to manage content in the cloud. The Box platform provides HIPAA, FINRA, FedRAMP, and many other compliances to go with granular access permissions and advanced security capabilities. By using Box you can sync, share, and collaborate on all types of files, anywhere, on any device - but that's just the beginning. You can choose where to store your data, to manage your own encryption keys, and set workflows to automate content-based processes. You can also assign custom metadata tags to content, watermark sensitive content, and set file retention or legal hold policies. Box has deep, native integrations with Microsoft Office and Outlook, Google Apps for Work, Salesforce, Netsuite, Docusign, Adobe, and many other best-of-breed solutions you may already be using. |
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Learn more about Atlassian Confluence | Learn more about Box |
Sample Customers | |
| Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi. | GE, Toyota, P&G, Caterpillar, Flex, Schneider Electric, Sally Beauty, Eurostar, AstraZeneca, AirBnB, Whirlpool, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Nationwide, Aeropostale etc |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm20% Cloud Provider12% Media Company8% Computer Software Company8% Computer Software Company26% Comms Service Provider14% Government9% Financial Services Firm8% | Non Tech Company30% University11% Financial Services Firm11% Philanthropy7% Computer Software Company26% Manufacturing Company10% Comms Service Provider10% Government9% |
Company Size | |
Small Business30% Midsize Enterprise30% Large Enterprise41% | Small Business26% Midsize Enterprise24% Large Enterprise50% |
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Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals with 9 reviews while Box is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Content Management with 6 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.4, while Box is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Good notifications, great third-party add-ons and very stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Box writes "Good folder privacy allows us to responsibly share files between departments". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Office 365, Drupal and Slack, whereas Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, IBM FileNet and SmartVault.
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