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Pros
"Great shareable and co-editing features.""The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere.""It integrates well with other Atlassian products""It's extremely intuitive.""It is easy to use.""As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily.""The solution is stable.""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."

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"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.""The most valuable feature is the Activity flow that is used to catch new activities."

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Cons
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live.""I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code.""The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box.""The cost of the solution is too high.""There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model.""The solution is not very user-friendly.""The user interface could be improved.""The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."

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"The inclusion of a file plugin for Windows Explorer would make it easier to use.""The support is an area where the product can improve...If you are having an issue on a Monday, the support personnel will contact you next Monday."

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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 price of the on-premises data center version is too expensive."
  • "Licenses are quite expensive"
  • "There is an annual license."
  • "Pricing wise, it ends up being an expensive solution. In the beginning it's cheap, but by the time you have all the functions you need, it turns out to be expensive."
  • "We have a site license for Atlassian Confluence and there are some limitations on external users."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:When it comes to affordability, I give it an eight out of ten. It's reasonably priced since many people are using it.
    Top Answer:Atlassian Confluence is not really a community-friendly solution. If you have a company, you'll have a license for each person, but it does not have such features as commenters. For example, Jira… more »
    Top Answer:Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
    Top Answer:The support is an area where the product can improve. My company faces some support-related issues because whenever we create or generate a ticket, it takes two days for the product's support team to… more »
    Top Answer:I use HCL Connections for marketing purposes. The IBM product in our company already provides us with direct links to the marketing and HR sides.
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    Also Known As
    Confluence
    IBM Connections, Lotus Connections
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    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.

    IBM Connections™ is a leading unified collaboration and social networking solution that helps you filter out the noise to get work done. Connections empowers your teams and organization to engage with the right experts, accelerate innovation, and deliver results. All the collaboration tools you need to be productive are united under a single sign-on so you can reduce time spent switching between disparate tools and focus on the people and work that matters most. Experience a security-rich and business-compliant environment sanctioned by IT. Confidently share knowledge within your teams and your organization, and extend collaboration beyond traditional boundaries. Connections can enable you to improve decision-making, increase productivity, and accelerate time-to-market. Shift from being merely productive, to truly effective with Connections today.

    IBM Connections can help you: Engage experts. People-centric platform enables you to easily locate the expertise you need, right now. Accelerate innovation. Illuminate and promote new ideas within a thriving social network of teams and communities. Empower teams. Get work done together and take action; anywhere—from any device. Deliver results. Leverage cognitive insights to prioritize results and arrive at better outcomes. Extend collaboration. Safely collaborate with customers and partners, bringing them into the conversation.

    Sample Customers
    Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
    Yamato Financial Co. Ltd., University of Zurich, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., Telus, Rabobank, Christian Brothers Services, Grupo Financiero Banorte, The Loft Group, Dow Water & Process Solutions, JGC Corporation, College of Medicine, Swansea University, solvito GmbH, Loft Group, Hamm-Reno Group GmbH, Geno SA
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Cloud Provider6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization64%
    Financial Services Firm5%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Manufacturing Company4%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Transportation Company12%
    Insurance Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization31%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business34%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise43%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise68%
    Large Enterprise25%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise42%
    Large Enterprise40%
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    Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 95 reviews while HCL Connections is ranked 6th in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 55 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while HCL Connections is rated 8.2. 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 HCL Connections writes "Provides potent document sharing with good integration with the Microsoft desktop and smartphones". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint and Zendesk, whereas HCL Connections is most compared with Skype for Business, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft 365 Business.

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