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What is Confluence?
Making information accessible to your organization is important now more than ever. Confluence can serve as your company’s primary Knowledge Management Software tool. Use it to capture, preserve, and organize your most valuable assets. Whether it be company updates, project plans, or other important intel, keep it accessible and trackable with Confluence.
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.
Where can Confluence be deployed?
About the vendor
- Atlassian
- Located in San Francisco, US
- Founded in 2013
Confluence support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
Confluence pricing
Starting Price:
- No free trial
- Yes, has free version
Confluence has a free version and does not offer a free trial. Confluence paid version starts at US$4.89/month.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- Atlassian
- Located in San Francisco, US
- Founded in 2013
Confluence support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
Confluence videos and images
Features of Confluence
Reviews of Confluence
Modern day Knowledge Management Repository
Comments: It has greatly improved our team's ability to create, organize, and share information effectively. The platform's features such as real-time collaboration, version control, and content organization have enhanced our productivity and streamlined our workflows. While there may be some areas for improvement, such as more advanced formatting options and task management capabilities, the user-friendly interface and intuitive design have made it relatively easy to navigate and use. Additionally, the availability of integrations and Atlassian's support resources have helped us integrate Confluence with our existing business processes, further enhancing its value. Overall, Confluence has been an essential tool in facilitating knowledge sharing and enhancing collaboration within our organization.
Pros:
Confluence is a powerful collaboration tool that offers several impactful features. Its most impactful features include the ability to create and organize content, collaborate in real-time, and have version control for easy tracking and reverting of changes. With a user-friendly interface and intuitive design, Confluence is generally considered easy to use, allowing users to navigate, create, and edit content seamlessly. As for integration with existing business processes, Confluence provides various integrations and APIs that make integration with other tools and systems relatively straightforward. It offers flexible options for customizations, allowing businesses to tailor the tool to their specific needs and workflows, thus facilitating a smooth integration process with existing business processes.
Cons:
As an end user of Confluence, I find the tool to be quite robust for collaboration, but there are a few features that I feel could be improved or added. For instance, I would appreciate more advanced formatting options, better task management capabilities, and improved visualization options for data. Additionally, I must admit that certain aspects of the product, such as complex permissions settings and the learning curve associated with advanced features, can be difficult to use initially. When it comes to integrating Confluence with our existing business processes, the level of difficulty can vary based on the complexity of our processes and the specific integrations required. In some cases, it has been challenging and has required additional configuration or development efforts, but Atlassian does provide resources, documentation, and support to help facilitate the integration process.
Alternatives Considered: Oracle Primavera Cloud and Asana
Reasons for Choosing Confluence: Less features in Workday
Switched From: Workday Adaptive Planning
Reasons for Switching to Confluence: Those are planning tool but confluence come with JIRA tool as KM application.
Excellent knowledge base and group collaboration platform
Comments: I appreciate the simplicity of the Confluence platform because it has been really helpful to my company. The intuitive design makes it simple to disseminate internal communications and choices made in meetings.
Pros:
It's the greatest centralized location for everyone involved in a project or at a company to store, share, and retrieve information and data. It's helpful for teamwork because it's simple to edit, it syncs with Jira, and it can provide useful visual representations of data.
Cons:
The design of Confluence just seems archaic and cumbersome to me. It's also difficult to allow access, and to copy and paste across other applications like Microsoft Office.
Excellent Knowledge Management and Collaboration Tool
Comments: Confluence has been invaluable for organizing and sharing knowledge within our team. It provides a centralized place to store documentation, collaborate on projects, and maintain transparency.
Pros:
Effective Knowledge base and documentation, real-time collaboration and customizable templates.
Cons:
high learning curve for new users, limited formatting and design and permissions can be complicated.
Good for basic use but functionality needs improving
Pros:
I like the ability to search for content easily, and the layout of the content side bar
Cons:
The functionality is quite limited in terms of creating content and its not very instinctive to use e.g. takes forever to work out where to add a column to a table.
One of the best
Pros:
The ease of use makes it one of the best team work management platforms out there. We are a development team that uses Jira and the integration with Confluence makes our work seamless.
Cons:
As of now, nothing really. We still don't use the Database functionality as it is in alpha.