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Atlassian Confluence vs Jive comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
2nd
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
3rd
Ranking in Knowledge Management Software
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
105
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Jive
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
7th
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
13th
Ranking in Knowledge Management Software
22nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (34th), Web Content Management (42nd), Enterprise Intranet (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) category, the mindshare of Atlassian Confluence is 15.1%, down from 18.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jive is 3.6%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
 

Featured Reviews

Rabindra K Maharana - PeerSpot reviewer
Editing features improve document accessibility
There is a holiday calendar, however, I need to install an app or add something to it. The add-on feature is not readily available or well-documented. Guidance on this should be available in a forum. Recently, I used a feature in another tool—perhaps GitHub—where it helped prepare a chart. It involved listing resources, like having fifteen people in the X team, ten in the Y team, and seven in the Z team. It created a bar chart showing these numbers. This chart used AI to offer users the option to create it based on the data. It was then created on a separate page and made available.
GD
A flexible solution that improves our administrative efficiency
We use Jive-n for followups on details regarding purchase orders, shipping documents, and other information We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge. This solution provides great flexibility of permission…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Pricing is not a problem."
"The best feature is the automatic tagging of information in documents. The automatic algorithm highlights irrelevant information that conflict with the actual documents."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"It has a very intuitive user interface, which every user able to manage the basic functionality of a PC will be able to work with and produce quite satisfactory results."
"I love the reports and the Confluence board."
"It is a good collaboration tool."
"The interface is good....I didn't face any issues with the scalability. It was very good."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
 

Cons

"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better."
"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."
"The cost of the solution is too high."
"The user interface is a little bit stale. The file attachments and how they work could be improved. There is also room for improvement when it comes to CDNs."
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."
"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."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is a very expensive solution."
"For us, it's free to use. We don't pay any licensing."
"To my knowledge, Atlassian Confluence had a pricing approach which is a commercial open-source solution, so that if you are a company, you had to pay an amount. This fee was not huge compared to other traditional solutions, and it was free for personal use or if you were an individual."
"Making integration with other tools easier would be beneficial."
"The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons."
"Maybe we're only using 10% of it, but we have to pay for everything."
"Licenses are quite expensive"
"Confluence charges an extra fee for analytics."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
32%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Atlassian Confluence?
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, controlled documents cannot be edited by anyone else.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlassian Confluence?
With Atlassian, the costs are reasonable. Although higher than before when we used multiple platforms and licenses, having a collaborative platform like this is advantageous. It streamlines license...
What needs improvement with Atlassian Confluence?
There is a holiday calendar, however, I need to install an app or add something to it. The add-on feature is not readily available or well-documented. Guidance on this should be available in a foru...
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Also Known As

Confluence
Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
 

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Sample Customers

Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
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