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Atlassian Confluence vs Objective ECM 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
6.8
Number of Reviews
109
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Enterprise Social Software (3rd), Knowledge Management Software (2nd)
Objective ECM
Average Rating
4.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (26th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Atlassian Confluence and Objective ECM aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Atlassian Confluence is designed for Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) and holds a mindshare of 13.4%, down 14.2% compared to last year.
Objective ECM, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Content Management, holds 1.2% mindshare, up 1.1% since last year.
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Atlassian Confluence13.4%
SharePoint19.8%
Drupal18.6%
Other48.199999999999996%
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
Enterprise Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Objective ECM1.2%
SharePoint11.7%
Alfresco6.7%
Other80.4%
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Talha Hussain. - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
it_user144594 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The ability to have duplicate document names is very useful for content migration. During trouble-shooting you will discover that the logs are all over the place.
During trouble-shooting you will discover that the logs are all over the place - even on servers you would not expect - and fragmented into dozens of files, yet the detail is excellent. It's Java execution logs, so needs a bit of interpretation skill, though. Speaking of Java, the web interface requires JRE and degrades in mysterious ways without it: No warnings or graceful fall-back. The web UI is otherwise VERY awkward and limited in functionality. The Windows client on the other hand is extremely dated but rich in functionality - not pretty, though. Despite the API, there is no vendor support for integration into any other systems except through HTML frames.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The best feature is the automatic tagging of information in documents. The automatic algorithm highlights irrelevant information that conflict with the actual documents."
"With the versioning available in Confluence, history versioning, if you delete something, you can always find it, and if someone changes anything in the document, you can find it from the history."
"It seems highly scalable. There are 500 end users using this solution."
"Copying another page and providing an option to edit everything is valuable."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"The most valuable features are the ease of creating documentation, as well as charts."
"Confluence has helped us through its ease of use and access to relevant information in a targeted way."
"The productiveness of creating and improving documentation is phenomenal once you get Confluence set up and define a few guidelines on how pages should look, be interlinked, and how to generally use the tool."
"The ability to have duplicate document names is very useful for content migration."
 

Cons

"On the cloud, we do not have a source editor if you want to go and validate the watch type of HTML or if you want to pull that HTML content for that cloud of pages."
"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 comparing history versions feature could be improved; it's messy and not useful."
"The cost of the solution is too high."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"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."
"Indentation and other basic word processing styles must be improved."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"Upgrades can be nightmares, partly because there can be architecture and engine changes in minor version increments."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"I am using the paid version. My company has purchased it for company employees. We are using Confluence as a company. I don't know how much it costs, but its price is good enough. Its price is not so high."
"We have to pay licensing fees."
"The price of the on-premises data center version is too expensive."
"We have a site license for Atlassian Confluence and there are some limitations on external users."
"In my opinion, it's worth the investment"
"We pay $350 a month to use the solution."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive, meaning its price falls somewhere in the mid-range zone."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Government
20%
Manufacturing Company
20%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise54
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Questions from the Community

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 projects or employees.
What needs improvement with Atlassian Confluence?
Much of the room for improvement lies not with the tool itself but with how people are using it. In many cases where we have had issues, it has been based on the lack of structure. The company usin...
What is your primary use case for Atlassian Confluence?
We are using Jira as an asset management and ticketing system along with Confluence. We have significant portions of the Atlassian system implemented. Atlassian Confluence is used as a Wiki for Jir...
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