Atlassian Confluence vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs SharePoint comparison

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) category, the mindshare of Atlassian Confluence is 13.0%, down from 16.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 16.1%, down from 22.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 22.9%, down from 24.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SharePoint	22.9%
Atlassian Confluence	13.0%
Liferay Digital Experience Platform	16.1%
Other	48.0%

Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)

Featured Reviews

Talha Hussain.

Project Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Manage projects effectively with seamless task tracking and integration, but deployment requires familiarity

We are conducting all our project management using Atlassian tools. We use Atlassian Confluence for task management, reporting, visualization of tasks, and reviewing the progress of tickets and work I use Atlassian Confluence for task management and other project management tasks, such as…

Optimizing digital presence with customizable design and seamless integration

PratyushRaj

E-Governance Head at Creant Technologies

The main benefits that Liferay Digital Experience Platform brings to the table are numerous. First is rapid application development and many features. Features such as content management and document management make your life easy; workflow management is also present. Workflow can be designed and derived. Form development and everything is very smooth and easy to deliver to the end customer, and you can find many features in one box. You have blogs, wikis, and everything with out-of-box functionality. My experience with actionable insights is positive; they help in refining content strategies. The content creation is helpful. For external content creation, I use headless CMS APIs for Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and headless APIs for content creation are also available. My thoughts on the integration capabilities are that integration is seamless. You have headless APIs where you can integrate seamlessly with any other application such as LDAP or SSO, or you can also integrate with different external systems. You have an SAP connector; everything is available. Liferay Digital Experience Platform's open source flexibility has helped in customizing functionalities for the specific needs of my customers as it is a highly flexible application that can be optimized. My advice for other organizations considering Liferay Digital Experience Platform is that if it's available, we need to improve on the performance, which is currently what we are seeing. Otherwise, earlier Service Builder was acceptable. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Liferay Digital Experience Platform a 9.

Centralized document governance has boosted collaboration and made knowledge sharing structured

reviewer2811600

SDE 1 at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

SharePoint is a powerful platform, but there are a few areas where I think it could be improved, such as user experience. For new users, the interface and navigation can feel quite complex, specifically when working with multiple sites and document libraries. Another improvement would be search functionalities. While it is good sometimes, it does not always return the most relevant result unless a document is very well-structured and tagged. Also, initial setup and customizations can be time-consuming and may require technical expertise, specifically when configuring workflows or permissions. From a modern development perspective, tighter and more seamless integrations with tools including Power Automate and better support for custom backend integrations through APIs could make it more efficient. Overall, simplifying usability and enhancing search and integration capability would make SharePoint even stronger. One additional area I would appreciate improvement would be performance and responsiveness, especially when dealing with a large document library. Sometimes loading or navigating through large datasets can feel quite slow. Another aspect is permissions management. While it is very powerful, it can become complex to manage at scale, specifically when there are multiple levels of access across teams and projects. Improving developer experience would also be beneficial. Making customization, API integrations, and extensions more straightforward would help teams, especially backend developers, leverage SharePoint more efficiently.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."

"Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."

"Formerly used Sharepoint – we like that Confluence has higher usability for the user so we can democratize content creation."

"This is a scalable solution that supports thousands of users."

"It seems highly scalable. There are 500 end users using this solution."

"The solution is very intuitive and provides excellent content management."

"The interface is good....I didn't face any issues with the scalability. It was very good."

"It covers pretty much anything and everything we need and everything our marketing teams would need as well."

"Liferay Digital Experience Platform has helped us optimize our digital presence and deliver rapid application development, every customer is happy, and they are giving us repeat orders for whatever we have delivered on Liferay Digital Experience Platform."

"Compared to other platforms the initial setup is not very complex."

"If you need something that is scalable, that needs broader functionality, and you need to develop your own services, then this is an excellent solution."

"Liferay is a good product and can reduce time and cost on project implementation."

"As of now, the technology is up-to-date and fulfills all essential requirements."

"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."

"All the portlets and widgets are plugins, which provides flexibility to add or modify in multiple ways."

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"All employees can view necessary interactions/documents, great task management and contact management functions."

"I think that SharePoint is the best on the market in terms of stability, quality and capability."

"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."

"Single window information sharing."

"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."

"From my perspective, since I am a data professional and we have to keep a record of all the data as per our client's demand, SharePoint provides us a repository where we can keep all our data intact and updated."

"Its functionality is enormous."

"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."

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Cons

"The scalability for larger companies could be improved."

"Confluence cannot replace Microsoft Word at the moment, so even though it can be used as a document management system, it is not meant for document creation, which adds a lot of limitations to it."

"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."

"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved."

"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."

"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."

"The discoverability of documents could be improved."

"The price could be improved. I have heard that certain adjustments would be made in 2024 and that it will then be more expensive, but I don't know the specifics."

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"The development license might be too costly for small to medium-sized businesses."

"Although it has been improving, I cannot shake the feeling that it was released too early."

"If you are a basic web developer or you have a very small organization, I don't think I would work with it."

"Liferay does currently lack a good integrated analytics package, automation, and filtering."

"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."

"There are still some parts where Liferay can improve: Document library: Allow you to view and preview all popular types of files Auditing capability"

"For new installations, the setup is simple; but again migrations for the old version are a nightmare."

"The plugins should be more affordable."

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"The user experience is very poor."

"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."

"I would like to see the following: More freedom given to a power user Feature development on a site collection level without the need for farm-level rights"

"We did have issues with scalability. Performance isn’t so good if too many people use it."

"It's Microsoft; empty your pockets. Seriously, if you obtain SharePoint under one of their blanket licensing agreements you really need to pay attention to the terms and conditions, especially if your acquisition is part of Office 365."

"The suite is complicated to set up, complicated to maintain, complicated to work with."

"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."

"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Maybe we're only using 10% of it, but we have to pay for everything."

"Confluence charges an extra fee for analytics."

"For us, it's free to use. We don't pay any licensing."

"We have a site license for Atlassian Confluence and there are some limitations on external users."

"Licenses are quite expensive"

"When you purchase this solution you get some support."

"The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons."

"We pay $350 a month to use the solution."

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"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."

"Licensing costs can be very expensive."

"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."

"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."

"It is a bit expensive."

"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."

"The pricing is competitive."

"For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance."

"It is very expensive."

"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."

"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."

"The product is reasonably priced."

"The pricing is competitive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

10%

Construction Company

Healthcare Company

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	39
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	52

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	39
Large Enterprise	81

Questions from the Community

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, contr...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlassian Confluence?

Money is a factor because Atlassian Confluence is not free. I need to purchase extra components when adding new proje...

What needs improvement with Atlassian Confluence?

What I would like to improve in the product is definitely the Jira integration. It is hard to tell which product is l...

What is the best feature of Liferay?

A tricky question because it'd depend on what your focus will be on Liferay as a digital experience platform. I mean...

Is Liferay suitable for complete beginners?

A non-developer here, and frankly, a little bit of a tech beginner in general. My company branched out into digital e...

What is Liferay’s capacity for backup?

Yes, I think you can trust the cloud feature of Liferay pretty well. It gives you the option to back up your data as...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?

I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.

What needs improvement with SharePoint?

It is not really better; we use the same solution as before with Google Drive and the Google App solution. Sometimes ...

What is your primary use case for SharePoint?

I create a data warehouse and establish a link between different applications. For data exchange, the vendor is Oracle.

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Also Known As

Confluence

Liferay DXP

SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

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.

Atlassian

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:

Creation of custom solutions
Simplification of IT management
Unity of disparate systems
Developer freedom.

Reviews from Real Users

According to a Communications head at a university, Liferay is a secure platform and the interface is user-friendly, with a great look and feel.

Preeti S., Senior Manager - Cloud Transformation at a computer software company, remarks that she's seenmultiple projects where Enterprise portals are implemented using Liferay, confirming the popularity and vast user base of this digital experience platform.

Liferay

SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

Microsoft

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

Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.

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