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Atlassian Confluence vs Yammer 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 (1st)
Yammer
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
4th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
64
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Atlassian Confluence is 5.3%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yammer is 5.2%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Social Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Atlassian Confluence5.3%
Yammer5.2%
Other89.5%
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…
DB
Senior Technical Product Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Creates user groups and streamlines communication
I think we should have some improvements in Yammer, similar to what we have in Facebook and others, where we can have targeted communications, so that we can filter some communications to go to a specific subset of that group, not to everybody. We would love to have some AI technologies included in Yammer, but I do not have a specific use case in mind right now.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product has a valuable feature for quick verification of documents."
"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."
"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"Provides wiki features such as file collaboration."
"The ease of use makes it accessible for all users."
"What I find the most valuable about Confluence is how easy it is to use."
"This is a good product which beds itself into the enterprise very quickly."
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"I consider Yammer to be the best business collaborative tool."
"Increased collaboration between geographically distributed teams."
"Yammer was an outstanding performer in the collaborative platform category."
"Yammer has allowed the entire company to be able to communicate with each other when the company has internal employees from all over the world."
"The most valuable feature of Yammer is its interface."
"People share expertise and find solution faster while they are feeling to be part of the same team even if they work in different geo"
"It is good, it works, it is reasonably easy to use."
"External collaboration with partners: There is a unified way to send updates about departments and the enterprise, rather than sending separate communications."
 

Cons

"Working with tables is a nightmare."
"Being robust when dealing with complex pages, eating too much CPU, badly designed plugins."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"Atlassian Confluence could improve the stability, there are timeouts sometimes."
"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."
"Concerning the integration capabilities of Atlassian Confluence with Jira, I find it surprisingly simple, meaning it does not really have powerful features in it, but it is easy to set up."
"I would like to see integration with Slack."
"I think that customization and text styling could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the customization and administration aspects of the product."
"I think we should have some improvements in Yammer, similar to what we have in Facebook and others, where we can have targeted communications, so that we can filter some communications to go to a specific subset of that group, not to everybody."
"Microsoft should work on templating and provide some built-in templates so that the changes can automatically roll out to all the configured communities."
"There is a need for full integration with the other features of Office 365."
"If you are not an Office 365 shop, then there are probably better options (i.e., Slack, Facebook for Work)."
"There's always going to be room for improvement, because it's not the answer for everything."
"I would give the technical support a rating of 3/10."
"If you are using other applications that are tough to integrate into the environment, that can cause limitations."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"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."
"Confluence charges an extra fee for analytics."
"We pay $350 a month to use the solution."
"The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons."
"We have a site license for Atlassian Confluence and there are some limitations on external users."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive, meaning its price falls somewhere in the mid-range zone."
"The pricing is not bad."
"Compared to other products like Amazon, Yammer's pricing is fine."
"We get it as part of our Office 365 subscriptions, so I don't think we pay any additional cost for Yammer. It's included in the Office 365 subscriptions."
"I don't know about the pricing. Now that Microsoft has bought Yammer, it should be a part of our subscriptions for Office 365."
"Its cost is included in the license bundle for Microsoft."
"Yammer is a pretty cheap solution, and it's included in multiple subscriptions."
"I think that there is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution."
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Comparison Review

it_user8913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 22, 2013
Yammer vs. SP Social in 2013
There are several discussions on SharePoint’s social strategy going on at the moment. I had some great discussions with my MVP mate Adis during Summit last week. Since #SPC12 almost every SharePoint addicted developer, it-pro, power user has reviewed Yammer. If you don’t know what Yammer is, here a…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
7%
University
5%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Marketing Services Firm
13%
Performing Arts
10%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business39
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise52
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise31
 

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?
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?
What I would like to improve in the product is definitely the Jira integration. It is hard to tell which product is lagging or lacking because I can usually find a feature on the Marketplace if I a...
What do you like most about Yammer?
We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer.
What needs improvement with Yammer?
I think we should have some improvements in Yammer, similar to what we have in Facebook and others, where we can have targeted communications, so that we can filter some communications to go to a s...
What is your primary use case for Yammer?
We create user groups in Yammer, so we use it mainly for communications and engagement. The features in Yammer that I find most beneficial for team collaboration, communication, and engagement are ...
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
Verizon, Rakuten,Nationwide, DHL, Westfield, Telefonica, 7-Eleven, Red Robin, Intuit, eBay,Darden, Suncorp, Tyco, Xerox, and ModCloth.
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