Who Uses Confluence?
Today all kinds of functional departments of any size use Confluence, from technical teams and project management groups, to marketing, HR, legal, and finance. All teams get work done with Confluence.
What Is Confluence?
Confluence is a team workspace where knowledge and collaboration meet. It's a central source of truth for fast-moving companies. Confluence keeps everyone organized and aligned with everything from meeting notes to strategy docs and IT documentation so they can make better decisions faster and be more responsive to change. Confluence integrates seamlessly with the Atlassian suite of products like Jira Software and Trello, and allows for endless customization with apps from our Marketplace.
Confluence Details
Atlassian
http://www.atlassian.com
Founded 2002
Confluence Pricing Overview
Confluence does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Confluence paid version starts at US$10.00/month.
Starting Price
US$10.00/month
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Free Version
No
Free Trial
Yes, get a free trial
Deployment
Installed - Mac
Cloud, SaaS, Web
Installed - Windows
Mobile - iOS Native
Mobile - Android Native
Training
Webinars
Documentation
Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
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Confluence Reviews for UK Users
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Steve M.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 31/10/2019
"The Collaboration Platform You've Waited For"
Comments: We document everything in Confluence. I run a digital marketing team of around 20 people and have a total of 40 users in the tool (a few other teams besides mine use it). It's been a fantastic tool to get everyone on the same page and keep track of our how-tos, meeting notes, plans, goals, features/specs, etc.
Pros:
Real-time simultaneous editing
Ease of finding and organizing what I've written
Constantly adding new features
Integration with Jira and Trello is great, but also works as lightweight project management by itself
Cons:
Honestly, they've fixed my biggest cons, like storage space (now you can buy a bigger plan) and they keep adding more things.
I think my colleagues would say there's still a learning curve, which is understandable, and I think Confluence has been changing the interface with more tips and features for new users (which is sometimes confusing for long-time users like me, LOL)
One big con is still the limited integration with MS Office. Confluence fully replaces the need for Word in most cases, so that's not a big deal, but I wish the Excel integration and/or the table functionality was better.
Also, printing is pretty tough when you have tables.
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- Reviewed on 31/10/2019
Panagiotis K.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 17/09/2019
"Great documentation platform for both intranets and customer-facing hubs"
Comments: The experience I had the last 9-10 years that me and my colleagues worked with Confluence is excellent. The document editor works smoothly even from the mobile app that is offered. There are many article templates to choose from when you start creating an article, from decision making documents to marketing strategy forms and solution focused how-to pages. Confluence supports a lot of media types in the pages, so it's easy to create helpful articles with video, audio, images and many more like attention panels, embedded spreadsheets, etc. You can even embed the contents of one section of a page to another page, so that if you change that it reflects the change in all the pages that the section was included. Which is great for customer support and of course technical documentation. Did I mention that you can create as many different wikis as you like? Confluence calls those "spaces" and it's a great way to keep things separated. I use different wiki spaces for my employees handbook, customer support, app manuals, design documents per project, etc. The possibilities are endless and having them separately helps with security between different roles in the company and outside of it.
Pros:
Confluence, especially the new cloud version, is one of the best tools to use for documenting your knowledge-base. The best parts for me are:
- The ability to connect my articles with to-do tasks from project management (Jira from Atlassian, same company, so they work like a charm together).
- The articles I can contain any media types, from spreadsheets that I can edit in-line to videos. There are also a lot of native panels to help anybody create very stylish articles with usability.
- In-line and footer comment sections help my team discuss and develop documents all together, without losing any of the discussion history.
- The ability to also keep an internal blog. I use that to inform my colleagues for the day-to-day developments, and keep everybody on track with high ideas and management efforts.
- All of the above can be also used as a customer-facing knowledge-base, to serve your customers with documents, operation manuals and help articles. Very handy if you use it together with the service desk solution from the same company, but can also be used stand-alone too.
In general it's one of the best choices that I made when I was searching for a documentation solution for my company and my clients, back in 2010. Almost a decade passed and Confluence is still growing better and better by the time. Atlassian the company behind Confluence is now huge and offers many solutions that integrate with Confluence, making it an even better choice if you use other tools from them.
Cons: I can't find any cons to Confluence. After all there is no perfect solution, only elegant ones depending on the problem one tries to solve. Atlassian is offering a trial period so anybody can see if Confluence is good for their company's documentation needs. From my experience, it would be bad to start a trial before you hove some really motivated people in your team and some content to put in there. Because it would be better to test Confluence with something that you would use in your company, so that you see first hand the pros and cons while your team works with Confluence with material that is close to the true material that you would put in there. If I was to change one thing it would be the way it recognizes internally any of the pages I create, so that Confluence doesn't have any issues with pages with same titles. That would be a nice time saver and space saver in the outline of any wiki one creates.
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- Reviewed on 17/09/2019
Guy N.
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Overall Rating4/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Value for MoneyUnrated
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- Reviewed on 25/05/2020
"Our organization use it frequently and we love it"
Comments:
Overall experience is that confluence feels light and clean.
All departments use it and share ideas through it
Pros:
I like the simplicity of the product.
You can view the change history and who made the change.
It looks visually good.
Cons:
I find it hard to find some pages. Because it has a page hierarchy on a list, it can take some time to find what you are looking for.
There is a search option that mitigates the problem.
We also have some table features missing like freeze top row.
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- Reviewed on 25/05/2020
Andrew K.
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Overall Rating3/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support3/5
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Value for Money3/5
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- Reviewed on 19/08/2019
"Great Resource Library within the JIRA Space"
Comments: Overall, Confluence has served our company well, as we subscribe to a number of Atlassian products. The immediate integration with these other products makes the Confluence application very desirable for our business model, and offers us a much needed solution without much additional effort or thought. If you are already using Atlassian products, Confluence is a great solution for centralizing and organizing all of your assets. If you have more advances needs and do not already use Atlassian products, you may want to explore alternative options.
Pros: Confluence offers my company a unique solution for creating and organizing documentation and assets that need to be share amongst an entire team. In addition, it offers us a means to share some of those same documents and assets with our customers without any additional effort. Its advance permissions schemes allow you to dictate which users have access to which files, and its ease of use allows for quick publication and instant distribution. As we also use JIRA for project management, Confluence is a great complement for linking supplemental, more detailed files to ongoing projects.
Cons: Confluence word processing features are a bit rudimentary. While the application itself is easy to use, its feature limitations only allow for a certain level of detail and imagination when creating new documents. While it links seamless into the JIRA project management platform, it does come with an additional cost per user, which quick racks up your monthly Atlassian bill. For more advanced needs, an alternative platform may be a better fit.
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- Reviewed on 19/08/2019
Saurabh G.
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Overall Rating4/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support4/5
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Value for Money3/5
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- Reviewed on 04/04/2020
"Great for sharing and storing documents and thoughts"
Comments: I really like it. I have not came across a better product for that. You can keep data in any way, tables, blob or even nice looking html. Copy paste form many source work great. It has a lot of integrations to make it easier to track data.
Pros: Its easy to use and you can throw anything at it. You can control who sees what completely. Everything you add is searchable.
Cons: It becomes quite huge soon and you end up having a giant repository of data to shift through. You have search functionality but eventually it ends up searching similar to google. I don't know what they can do to make it more simpler but thats the biggest issue I face.
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- Reviewed on 04/04/2020
