Compare Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint
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." | "It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint." "The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities." "For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them." "This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information." "The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search." "The online editing capabilities, file sharing, auditing, information security, ease of solution management, and the easy user adaptation to the platform are the most valuable features." "The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing." |
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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." | "Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents." "Workflow is something that can become more intelligent." "I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools." "This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities." "The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools." "The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to cloud can also use improvement." "The workflow engine cannot support the business needs." |
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 works for us." "For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance." |
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Views 9,748 Comparisons 8,116 Reviews 10 Average Words per Review 476 Rating 8.5 | Views 33,923 Comparisons 28,498 Reviews 17 Average Words per Review 360 Rating 7.8 |
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Also Known As | |
| Confluence | SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Atlassian | Microsoft |
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. | SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow. Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around. |
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Learn more about Atlassian Confluence | Learn more about SharePoint |
Sample Customers | |
| Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi. | Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara. |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm20% Cloud Provider12% Media Company8% Computer Software Company8% Computer Software Company26% Comms Service Provider13% Government9% Financial Services Firm8% | Financial Services Firm14% Energy/Utilities Company10% University10% Comms Service Provider8% Computer Software Company25% Comms Service Provider14% Government11% Manufacturing Company5% |
Company Size | |
Small Business30% Midsize Enterprise30% Large Enterprise41% | Small Business38% Midsize Enterprise21% Large Enterprise41% Small Business4% Midsize Enterprise25% Large Enterprise71% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
454,950 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals with 10 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Corporate Portals with 17 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.6, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Plan, plan, plan. Over-budget". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Drupal, Zendesk Guide and Alfresco, whereas SharePoint is most compared with WordPress, Citrix ShareFile, Box, OpenText Content Suite Platform and IBM FileNet. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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