Atlassian Confluence vs Microsoft OneDrive comparison

The compared Atlassian and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Atlassian is ranked #2 in CP , with an average rating of 8.4, and holds a 15.1% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #11 in CCP , and holds a 9.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Atlassian Confluence

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90% willing to recommend

Microsoft OneDrive

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91% willing to recommend

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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 OneDrive

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (11th)

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 15.1%, down 18.2% compared to last year.
Microsoft OneDrive, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 9.6% mindshare, down 12.9% 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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Victor Bayouwa

Owner at VBTECH-IT

I love the backup capabilities and the offline sync

We use OneDrive to share documents throughout the organization and collaborate. It is also used for backups. The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again. It takes too long for…

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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

"The customization that Confluence offers is one of its most useful features. You can customise it based on the specific project you are working on. It also supports multiple languages."

"We value the way we can tag documentation to Jira because we can cross-reference a Jira ticket to a Confluence page, and we can also add a Confluence page to a Jira ticket."

"Confluence is easy to use and integrate with other solutions, including social media platforms."

"Copying another page and providing an option to edit everything is valuable."

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

"I love the reports and the Confluence board."

"What I find the most valuable about Confluence is how easy it is to use."

"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"

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"It helps you keep organized."

"It is simple to use and it allows me to give me the opportunity to access anything I want from any device."

"They have support for integration with a lot of tools."

"One of the good features is that the users are not even aware that they're using it."

"It is good as a central hub for the storage of documents and sharing among team members."

"It is free if you use Microsoft Office 365."

"Image management is great since the search is simple, and accessing images with labels is easy."

"The most valuable feature is to be able to modify the file online and keep it stored on the cloud, since it is not necessary to download it to make modifications."

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Cons

"I would like Confluence to include the ability to draw flowcharts and diagrams."

"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."

"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 dashboards should be improved."

"The user interface could be improved."

"The UX is a little bit all over the place."

"Some aspects of the drawing perspective could be improved. When we upgrade a design and make technical architecture drawings to publish, we still use Visio first and then copy and paste it. If this feature were available on Confluence, it would be a useful tool."

"The solution is not very user-friendly."

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"It takes too long for OneDrive to synchronize various applications, especially when you are saving office data. It also requires too much bandwidth."

"The area that can be improved is to be able to share easily with folks outside the organization and with folks who don't have an office account. Sometimes, when you send a link, you might have some form of repetition. If you don't know how to share it properly, whoever you are sharing it with will have issues using it. Also, the link that you use to share a document can be made a bit shorter. It doesn't have to be long. Typically, when you want to share a document, it has everything, such as the name of the organization, SharePoint, etc. A short URL will be easier to use, and it will just make life easier, especially because a lot of people are now going mobile. I'm not sure if there's a mobile version of Microsoft OneDrive, similar to Google Drive. If they don't have a mobile app, it would also be nice to have a mobile app because that would help in checking out your documents. It would be easy to check your documents on the go on your phone."

"If I want to pick out certain criteria of pictures, Google enables me to do that whereas OneDrive is a bit sort of flaky."

"The website could be improved. Sometimes I try to login and the website has issues, I can't retrieve my documents."

"Recent functionality changes have actually made the product more confusing to use."

"There are not enough ways to assign permissions to shared folders and files."

"An online video player would be great, since sometimes you have to download the video to play it."

"The user interface sometimes fails and when it cannot connect, it does not give the reason why."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"We have to pay licensing fees."

"Making integration with other tools easier would be beneficial."

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

"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."

"This is a very expensive solution."

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"This is a pricy solution, given that we are only using it at 50% capacity."

"Costwise, it is a great option. In most cases, it is a free space, which will be more than enough for most customers."

"The licensing is expensive and on a yearly basis."

"It is free if you are using Office 365, and you get a terabyte of storage with your account."

"The price of Microsoft OneDrive is reasonable and compatible with competitors."

"We pay a lot for the Enterprise version, but it is a premium service."

"OneDrive comes with Microsoft 365 so it is just an added part of that package."

"Using this software, it has had an amazing impact moneywise on our business. It allows us to share documents without the need of extra hardware."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

37%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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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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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.

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Microsoft OneDrive for Business gives you online storage that works seamlessly with the tools you use every day to create, communicate, and collaborate from your PC/Mac or your iOS, Android, or Windows device.

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