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)."There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"It seems highly scalable. There are 500 end users using this solution."
"It is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable features is its design documentation abilities."
"What's most valuable to me in Atlassian Confluence is that it allows the concurrent development of documentation. I also like how you can add comments offline and implement changes directly on the document."
"The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities."
"The solution is scalable."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"Some aspects of the drawing perspective could be improved. When we upgrade a design and make technical architecture drawings to publish, we still use Visio first and then copy and paste it. If this feature were available on Confluence, it would be a useful tool."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"Some macros can be technical, and they are better managed on the Confluence cloud rather than on-premises. For example, when you add an image on the cloud, you can resize it just by using the mouse. This is not the case on-premises yet. You have to write pixels of the size of the image sometimes. Some of the very old macros are still there, and some of them are technical. It can be hard for users if they are not from an IT background to understand how to use them quickly."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve how information is shared outside our company. We had some negative experiences with the rights we have with our information when sharing it within Atlassian Confluence and with other teams outside the company. It's due to the limitations on the rights we have on the export capabilities. We don't have sufficient rights to do so."
"The search function is not great."
"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."
"We have to use other applications that make Atlassian Confluence more customized for what you want. They should improve by adding the ability to make more customizations."
"It could be cheaper."
"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."
"Data privacy, regarding where to store your data: Offering several transparent(!) options (where to store my data and whether to sync back or not and where to sync) regarding the local law situations (USA, EU, Switzerland!) would increase the credibility of a US based company (after NSA ‘snooping’)."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"The search features and role permissions are not very user friendly. It only searches the first few pages of a document, which is quite a problem."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
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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