We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and SharePoint 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."This is a scalable solution that supports thousands of users."
"I love the reports and the Confluence board."
"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."
"What's most valuable to me in Atlassian Confluence is that it allows the concurrent development of documentation. I also like how you can add comments offline and implement changes directly on the document."
"Pricing is not a problem."
"Confluence is easy to use and integrate with other solutions, including social media platforms."
"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."
"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."
"Information is much more readily available."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"It is very stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"Confluence could incorporate stronger records management and automation features. The current management structure is too open, which becomes an issue."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"It lacks ease of integration."
"Some elements of the user interface could be more user-friendly, including embedding diagrams."
"I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."
"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."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 99 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 146 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Good usability, helpful community support, and facilitates well-structured documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive, Zendesk and Slack, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and Hyland OnBase. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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