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."For me, the most valuable feature is its high performance. It's crucial for us in the bank, as we handle a massive number of transactions every day."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance."
"What I like the most is the Wiki software that comes with Atlassian Confluence."
"The customization that Confluence offers is one of its most useful features. You can customise it based on the specific project you are working on. It also supports multiple languages."
"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."
"It's extremely intuitive."
"It integrates well with other Atlassian products"
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"The most valuable feature of SharePoint is its ease of use."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"The flexibility and simplicity of this solution could be improved. We would also like the ability to add plugins."
"Atlassian Confluence should improve the interface, it needs to be more user-friendly. It is easy to use, but it could be more intuitive."
"When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"Atlassian needs to provide the source editor or a built-in plugin."
"The solution is not very user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
"The solution should be made more user-friendly for technical and business people."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"There are some limitations on storage."
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 149 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, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365, Zendesk and Slack, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and Hyland OnBase. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. SharePoint report.
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