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Atlassian Confluence vs TIBCO tibbr comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
109
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Knowledge Management Software (2nd)
TIBCO tibbr
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
16th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Atlassian Confluence is 6.7%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO tibbr is 2.3%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Social Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Atlassian Confluence6.7%
TIBCO tibbr2.3%
Other91.0%
Enterprise Social Software
 

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_user685332 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The gaps in the API are filled by our own R+D and the publish mechanism is very reliable.
The API is awful. We needed to develop a batch load tool in order to send automated events to Tibber API. The current API version is not well documented, i.e. the current version of the API in the software doesn't correspond to the web-documented API. We had to imagine parameters and names. We had difficulty making it all work, as the login/SSO mechanism was not properly explained so that we could perform external logins to the API and use their features.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features of Atlassian Confluence are its overall document editing and ease of use."
"Confluence allows creating new documentation very fast, which allowed us to organize our self-written documentation in a very efficient way."
"I would recommend Confluence, especially for anyone that is using other Atlassian products."
"It is a very popular tool."
"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."
"Highly recommended to any organization as a way of breaking down silos and sharing information more effectively across teams and departments."
"There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."
"One of the best features of Atlassian Confluence is that it integrates really well with Jira, and it's easy to use."
"Typically the classical ROI is about seven months from full deployment, but there are a lot of benefits that we can't measure with this metric, like more dissemination of knowledge, fast internal expert finding, less internal emails, less waste of time, and better employee engagement."
"The gaps in the API are filled by our own R+D and the publish mechanism is very reliable."
 

Cons

"The ability to delegate administrative roles, very difficult to give someone delegated administrative ability – almost all or nothing."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"Some macros can be technical, and they are better managed on the Confluence cloud rather than on-premises. For example, when you add an image on the cloud, you can resize it just by using the mouse. This is not the case on-premises yet. You have to write pixels of the size of the image sometimes. Some of the very old macros are still there, and some of them are technical. It can be hard for users if they are not from an IT background to understand how to use them quickly."
"The roadmap feature should be made easier to work with and modify. It's not really scalable."
"There's room for improvement in the way folders are structured in Atlassian Confluence."
"There is a significant difference between the data center version and the cloud version of Confluence. Providing the same features in both versions would be beneficial."
"Basically, Confluence is heavily text-based."
"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."
"More customizable features, particularly in mobile app; better preview of document and images stored in other cloud services (like Google Drive, Dropbox and so on)."
"The API is awful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licenses are quite expensive"
"Making integration with other tools easier would be beneficial."
"When you purchase this solution you get some support."
"The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons."
"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."
"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."
"We have to pay licensing fees."
"In my opinion, it's worth the investment"
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
5%
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Company Size

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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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Also Known As

Confluence
tibbr
 

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Sample Customers

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