Atlassian Confluence vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

The compared Atlassian and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Atlassian is ranked #2 in CP , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 14.4% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #7 in CCP , and holds a 7.1% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Atlassian Confluence vs. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Report (Updated: March 2020).

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

Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

105

Ranking in other categories

Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Enterprise Social Software (3rd), Knowledge Management Software (1st)

Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (7th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Atlassian Confluence is designed for Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) and holds a mindshare of 14.4%, down 19.1% compared to last year.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 7.1% mindshare, down 9.8% since last year.

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Rabindra K Maharana

Business Consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited

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.

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Mehdi Hasankhan

Head of Development and Implementation at Arak Petrochemical Company

Easy to use but offers poor integrations with Oracle and has inflexible security configuration

I can't configure the current security I want. There are a lot of bots in it. Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company. Therefore, it makes more sense for us to go to Oracle instead of continuing to use Sharepoint.

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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

"This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance."

"The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."

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

"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."

"It is a very popular tool."

"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."

"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."

"Documenting everything related to the project is good for me. It enables me to use rich text to document, insert macros and links, highlight with different colors, and organize pages in a hierarchical way."

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"The most valuable feature is that it is very usable. I can navigate it, I can have a media call, I can have a call with my project team, so we can chat with every team kind of like WhatsApp. Any time there are projects or other things, we can chat in a secure way. It's automation-specific secure."

"The solution is pretty easy to use for the most part."

"The most valuable feature is the "Alert Me", which provides the ability to set an alert when content is either added or changed and that the alerts can be either real-time or aggregated for the day or the week."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it doesn't require coding. You just need to configure it. You don't need to code before getting something running. It makes it very fast."

"The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it."

"The level of stability is good."

"The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Communication Site."

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Cons

"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."

"The way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets 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."

"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."

"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."

"Space maintenance could be made a little more user-friendly."

"I would like to see integration with Slack."

"Atlassian Confluence is not really a community-friendly solution."

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"The permission management features need improvement."

"I would like to see the integration with Teams reinforced."

"The solution needs to enable better sharing capabilities between users and external users. Several users also have problems with linking their emails to their Microsoft account."

"I would like to see more Agile techniques and seamless integration with other applications."

"The solution needs to have more flexibility. The classic version had more flexibility, however, the modern version has many more limitations."

"I think these tools do a pretty good job. There is only one area of improvement. Maybe Microsoft can invest a little bit more into the ease at which integration can be done with other third party applications."

"The product could be improved by accommodating different technologies, particularly integration."

"The product is behind in development and lacks some features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The Confluence pricing is good. The only challenge we have experienced is with Jira and the add ons we use that need to be paid for separately."

"We have to pay licensing fees."

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

"There is a license needed to use Atlassian Confluence."

"There are some cases where you can go on Confluence as a public site without a license, but you will not have all of the features. You can also have a Confluence site that does not require a license just to read the articles. When you have Jira Service Management attached to Confluence, then you can go through the portal of Jira Service Management and read the Confluence articles without the license. This is good because when you are in an ITSM environment, you have many customers, and you do not want them to have to pay just to read articles. Regarding the use of the full features of Confluence, there is a license cost, and it depends on how many users you want."

"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."

"In my opinion, it's worth the investment"

"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."

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"There are some aggressive discounts offered by Microsoft for organizations that are not for profit, which we are, and it makes it quite attractive to consider."

"Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."

"It can be expensive for on-premises deployments, especially when you have to support SQL Server as your backend database. That's where the cost comes into play. SQL Server has its own licensing, which Microsoft keeps on changing. Therefore, it can become costly. In the earlier versions of SharePoint, version 2007 or 2010, they had an express version where the SQL Server licensing was free. It wasn't like a full-blown SharePoint. It was only a slimmed-down version. It used to be whatever your hardware costs. You would install the free software and work with it, but you were very limited in what you could do in SharePoint. If you wanted the SharePoint Enterprise Server with all the bells and whistles, then you had to pay more to get the SQL Server license based on the number of users or servers. The subscription model is different for cloud deployments. Licensing is per user and per month. The cost also depends on the storage required. If you have a lot of sites or documents, then you need to expand it based on your needs."

"One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost. With the on premise version, you pay for the license once. For the cloud version, there is a recurring fee. It is very expensive. They expect everyone to pay $20 or $30 per user per month."

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Educational Organization

59%

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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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.

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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...

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Confluence

Office SharePoint Server, MS Office SharePoint Server

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

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a Microsoft software portal based on the ASP.NET framework. MOSS facilitates file sharing and collaboration, social networking, Web databases and Web publishing. It is hosted by Microsoft Windows Server and is accessible through Microsoft Office or the Web.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

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

Del Monte Foods, Unicredit Leasing, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Nokia Czech Republic, Perkins Eastman, JLL, ICA, óxito Software, Dorset Software, PKP Cargo, Arcapita Bank B.S.C., AVE CZ, Chesapeake Energy

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