We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and Box based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Liferay and others in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)."As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"The interface is good....I didn't face any issues with the scalability. It was very good."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"It is a very popular tool."
"There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"The roadmap feature should be made easier to work with and modify. It's not really scalable."
"It lacks ease of integration."
"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 could be cheaper."
"If you want to delete something in Box, you have to do it manually, one by one. That was my recent experience. They might have a bulk delete, but I could not find that option. If you want to delete something, you have to go to each and every file and delete it."
"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."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews while Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 37 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while Box 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 Box writes "Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint and Jive, whereas Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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