We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a very popular tool."
"This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance."
"Atlassian Confluence is flexible and allows adding different types of context on the page and connecting a hypertext, like a web page, without a source."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"Collaboration is most valuable. You can upload or create your documents on Confluence and share them with your team members. Your team members also can share documents."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"It has made us faster and more efficient."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"The dashboards should be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Integration needs to be more straightforward, particularly with Azure. SharePoint also needs a more comprehensive introductory course for users."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"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."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 42 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 17 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Flexible, efficient, allows the concurrent development of documentation and lets you add comments offline". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Stable and scalable collaboration system; good for document and file sharing, and offers fast issue resolution from its support team". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive, Zendesk and Slack, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and OpenText Content Manager. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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