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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.

I love the backup capabilities and the offline sync

Victor Bayouwa

Owner at VBTECH-IT

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…

Streamlined collaboration through seamless integration and customization

Sanil Paul

IT Service Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I have been an administrator for SharePoint and have used it as an end-user for document storage. Predominantly, I've been involved in administration SharePoint helps a lot since we've moved from using it directly to using it as a backend for Teams, which makes collaboration easier. It supports…

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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 search functionality is a really powerful feature."

"The most valuable feature is the accessibility from different sites for different colleagues and the search option."

"Pricing is not a problem."

"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."

"The solution is stable."

"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"

"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."

"What I like the most is the Wiki software that comes with Atlassian Confluence."

"We use Microsoft OneDrive for file sharing without the need for additional hardware (such as flash drives or external hard drives)."

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

"It is well integrated with other Microsoft products."

"It's pretty easy to learn. Once someone taught me, I was able to navigate it quite easily."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the amount of space allotted to each user that is issued a subscription."

"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 helps you keep organized."

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"It has an easy to distribute administration capability, and can also scale to meet a large number of future needs."

"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."

"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."

"Sharing information is very easy in SharePoint. We use multiple types of documents, like online Excel tools and online content editing, especially for group editing. This allows us to collaborate, even in distributed teams. Despite being geographically spread out, everyone can access the same files online, edit them, and see changes. We also use SharePoint to track all these changes, making our teamwork more collaborative overall. The tool fastens information sharing and collaboration."

"Tech support tops off as excellent."

"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."

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

"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."

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Cons

"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."

"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 way Atlassian Confluence handles tickets could be improved."

"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."

"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."

"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."

"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."

"We would like there to be more advanced data manipulation features available in this solution, such as creating more complex charts, and a column freezing option."

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"Microsoft OneDrive could improve because it doesn't support backing up .PST files, which are Outlook data files, and email archives. This is a substantial setback when it comes to Microsoft OneDrive."

"I think it should be more user-friendly with more tutorials on the full scale of the program."

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

"An increase in the capacity of storage in the free version would be nice."

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

"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."

"Support has not been the same since the beginning of COVID lockdowns."

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

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"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."

"One issue is that when users mistakenly hide files or set permissions incorrectly, it can lead to files becoming inaccessible, requiring intervention from Microsoft support to resolve."

"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."

"It will fully use your system resources."

"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."

"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."

"The solution should be made more user-friendly for technical and business people."

"Improve the user-friendliness."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"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."

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

"This is a very expensive solution."

"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."

"The product is neither cheap nor expensive, meaning its price falls somewhere in the mid-range zone."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"The licensing model for SharePoint Online is based on per user, and it is monthly. The price of the solution overall is good."

"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."

"Licensing can be by server or by seat."

"The pricing is competitive."

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

"It is pretty reasonable. It is $5 per month per user. We have 12 users now, so it is about $60 per month."

"The product is reasonably priced."

"The pricing is competitive."

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Educational Organization

59%

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Educational Organization

33%

Financial Services Firm

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Government

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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10%

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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?

With Atlassian, the costs are reasonable. Although higher than before when we used multiple platforms and licenses, h...

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 read...

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The search feature is valuable.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?

As SharePoint is part of the Microsoft 365 suite, the pricing is acceptable.

What needs improvement with SharePoint?

The web parts in SharePoint could be more intuitive for end users. Many do not fully understand these features, and i...

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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.

Atlassian

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.

Microsoft

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.

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Sample Customers

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

Chevron, Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, DBS, Nestle, Lowe's, MGM Resorts, Textron, MGM Resorts

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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