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We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and Liferay Digital Experience Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"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 solution helped us to see where we were going wrong and where we were doing good, and that helped us to make proper decisions""The sharing of information and simple formatting are valuable features. That is, there are no templates, and everything uses one format. This means that people don't need to worry about formatting.""The trial stages, the ability to connect it to Jira, and the ability to export in PDF are all good capabilities.""The best feature is document management.""Atlassian Confluence's most valuable features are the ease in which you can use the tool, the flexibility in creating folder structures, receiving notifications in case others put remarks on the documents, and working together on documents.""This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance.""The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."

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"The look and feel and the user interface are great.""The solution is easy to install.""Manageability is very good and probably the most valuable part of a tool of this type. There is a little more of a learning curve than you have with a simple tool, but a business user can learn to manage the system as an administrator very easily.""I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector.""The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time.""The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use.""We chose Liferay because it is open-source and that we can make any number of users apply, register into the system and use the system, as opposed to other solutions where the cost is based on user licenses. This is one of the most attractive features.""It allows us to arrange and develop new ideas, then incorporate them into the portal. We can create a one stop information center, so people can access the information from one window."

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Cons
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive.""The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at.""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.""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.""When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits.""I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams.""I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."

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"The integration and configuration need to be simplified.""The LAR import and export feature of the product doesn't work well. From a developer's point of view, the tool's OSGi framework is not easy.""It could be improved in terms of adding filters to some of the rules. Therefore, you can retain how long a document would need to stay in an archive.""Social area and capabilities need improvement.""The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse.""It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box.""The plugins should be more affordable."

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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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  • "Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
  • "It is a bit expensive."
  • "It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
  • "Licensing costs can be very expensive."
  • "The product is neither cheap nor expensive. What Liferay Digital Experience Platform offers at its current price can be considered something that is worth the money."
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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: A tricky question because it'd depend on what your focus will be on Liferay as a digital experience platform. I mean, if for me the experience management is the best feature, for someone with… more »
    Top Answer:A non-developer here, and frankly, a little bit of a tech beginner in general. My company branched out into digital experience a bit later than we should have but picking Liferay as a DXP was one of… more »
    Top Answer: Yes, I think you can trust the cloud feature of Liferay pretty well. It gives you the option to back up your data as well as restore it and that's pretty vital for any digital experience platform. Do… more »
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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.

    Liferay is a top-ranking digital experience platform used by companies in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, and energy and utilities. This product allows companies to initiate highly personalized digital experiences through mobile, social, and web. Organizations can use Liferay DXP for customer, partner, supplier, or employee portals, as well as integrational platforms, taking advantage of the platform's many customization options to suit their needs completely. The Liferay Experience Cloud offers companies the ability to use the Liferay DXP to build their own digital experiences, as well as to use it as a fully managed cloud platform, including options for self-management and self-hosting.

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform Features

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform provides various features in the following categories:

    • Identity management and access control (application security): These features include identity management support, user management, service access policies, and personal data management.

    • Platform services: Clustering and performance monitoring, auditing and optimization, back-end APIs, dynamic virtual hosting, site and search administration, and single-page applications.
    • Integration and interoperability: The features in this category include integration framework, developer studio, front-end toolkits, IntelliJ IDEA Plugin, Liferay connected services (LCS), Liferay marketplace and workspace, and Blade CLI.

    • Collaboration and social: Blogs, knowledge base, social networking, wiki, forums, message boards, calendar, AlloyEditor, inline image editor, and polls, among other features.

    • Forms, workflow, and business process automation: Features include forms, validation, field library, various types of form entries, data provider integration, and several other features.
    • Content management: Vast array of features for companies to take advantage of when preparing and publishing different types of content, including text and images.

    • Experience management: The features in the experience management category include building pages through fragments and editors for them, various widgets, as well as templates for pages, and SEO-friendly updates.

    • Segmentation and personalization: These features are designed for the full personalization of the platform in order to reach different types of customers and appeal to their individual needs regarding the company that is using Liferay.

    • Multichannel support: The features in multichannel support include APIs, adaptive media, and responsive design, providing companies with the ability to apply Liferay's full customization to their digital experience platform's design and function.

    • Search: Liferay Digital Experience Platforms provide various features for search integrations, multi-language search, and options for filtering and sorting.

    • Analytics and optimization: A crucial part of every digital experience platform is the analytics option for companies to monitor the data of their users and, based on it, improve their approach. That is why Liferay Digital Experience Platform provides five different analytics features.

    • Cloud capability: To provide companies with the best possible experience, Liferay offers various features regarding the proper operation of the platforms, including real-time alerts, monitoring, and options for backup and restoration.

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform Benefits

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform offers the following benefits:

    Sample Customers
    Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
    Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
    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
    Government18%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Educational Organization11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business34%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise43%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise68%
    Large Enterprise25%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise46%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 95 reviews while Liferay Digital Experience Platform is ranked 4th in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 44 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while Liferay Digital Experience Platform is rated 8.0. 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 Liferay Digital Experience Platform writes "Allows us to extend its CMS, site management, and workflow features". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, whereas Liferay Digital Experience Platform is most compared with Adobe Experience Manager, Magnolia CMS, WordPress, SharePoint and Oracle WebCenter.

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