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Atlassian Confluence vs Mindjet MindManager comparison

 

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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
106
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Enterprise Social Software (3rd), Knowledge Management Software (1st)
Mindjet MindManager
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Mind Mapping Software (5th)
 

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 13.8%, down 17.0% compared to last year.
Mindjet MindManager, on the other hand, focuses on Mind Mapping Software, holds 10.2% mindshare, up 7.3% since last year.
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Atlassian Confluence13.8%
SharePoint28.0%
Liferay Digital Experience Platform19.4%
Other38.800000000000004%
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
Mind Mapping Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Mindjet MindManager10.2%
Visio27.6%
Lucidchart22.9%
Other39.300000000000004%
Mind Mapping Software
 

Featured Reviews

Rabindra K Maharana - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
MS
An Easy to use tool for brainstorming and planning, compatible with Microsoft Project
This solution works well enough. One can always dream up certain things that may or may not be worth implementing in a piece of software because some other people might have some other better priorities that make more sense. But I would say for what I need it to do, I'm okay. My advice to others is to get it, and use it! It's very good and useful. I am pretty sure that the functionality it has today has more modern methodologies than what I use, but for me, it has been very useful and I have kept using it all of this time. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Copying another page and providing an option to edit everything is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Atlassian Confluence is the ability to access your files from anywhere."
"Confluence is very easy to use and feature-packed."
"Great shareable and co-editing features."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"What I find the most valuable about Confluence is how easy it is to use."
"Pricing is not a problem."
"We have found limiting permissions and history very valuable."
"The most valuable feature is being able to export to Microsoft Project."
 

Cons

"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."
"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 one way in which this solution could be improved is by offering better design and UI."
"The software does not currently have any kind of AI integration."
"The add-on feature is not readily available or well-documented."
"The UI is good but bland. It could be updated a bit to make it more modern and interesting to look at."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"I would like to see integration with Slack."
"Since I have been using such an old version, most of the improvements have already been made, but I would suggest moving forward with the times and creating a cloud-based solution for universal access."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licenses are quite expensive"
"Maybe we're only using 10% of it, but we have to pay for everything."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive, meaning its price falls somewhere in the mid-range zone."
"We have to pay licensing fees."
"We have a site license for Atlassian Confluence and there are some limitations on external users."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"We pay $350 a month to use the solution."
"The price of the on-premises data center version is too expensive."
"The price was very good in the beginning, then the price increased from USD $99.00 to USD $249.00, then I stopped upgrading because what I needed was already there."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
7%
Government
20%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business38
Midsize Enterprise26
Large Enterprise52
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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.
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...
What needs improvement with Atlassian Confluence?
There's room for improvement in the way folders are structured in Atlassian Confluence. Sometimes it's frustrating when we have two documents that we want to have the same name. For instance, we mi...
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