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Atlassian Confluence vs. Bloomfire

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Confluence

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AConfluence is a collaboration and content sharing platform used primarily by customers who are already using Atlassian's Jira project tracking product. The product appeals particularly to IT users.

    $6.40

    per month per user

    Bloomfire

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Bloomfire provides knowledge engagement, aiming to deliver an experience that connects teams and individuals with the information they need to excel at their jobs. Their cloud-based knowledge engagement platform aims to give people one centralized, searchable place to engage with shared knowledge and grow their organization's collective intelligence.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    ConfluenceBloomfire
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    Free for 10 Users
    Standard
    $6.40
    per month per user
    Premium
    $12.30
    per month per user
    Data Center
    220,000.00
    40,001+ Users - Annually
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Basic
    $25.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ConfluenceBloomfire
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$25
    Additional DetailsPrices shown here reflect prices for deployments with 100 users or less. The prices decrease wien the user base surpasses 100.—
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    Community Pulse
    ConfluenceBloomfire
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    No answer on this topic
    Bloomfire
    Chose Bloomfire
    Bloomfire is much easier to use than Microsoft SharePoint as a standalone knowledge base. Atlassian Confluence is pretty similar in this regard. All of these products shine in their own way, but Bloomfire does very well as a knowledge base.
    Incentivized
    Chose Bloomfire
    Hive is the closest competitor to Bloomfire that I have encountered. Its main benefit is the ability to manage individual tasks along with accessing larger hosts of information. I think that Bloomfire is better at the organizational component on a Macro level, however, Hive is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bloomfire
    More user-friendly and well-integrated with the IT environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Bloomfire
    Bloomfires user interface and visual representation of content whips Sharepoint off the map. Also the easy of the editor simplifies tasks that SharePoint makes difficult for the average user.
    Incentivized
    Chose Bloomfire
    Bloomfire met all of our technical requirements, as well as a lot of the UI/interface requirements. The system is clean, elegantly simple, and not overly featured - it knows exactly what it does and doesn't do. (Ie: it's not a chat tool, it's not a substitute for email, it's …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bloomfire
    This was really our first foray into the knowledge base and document management. We did review some other solutions like Zendesk and Confluence but ultimately the categorization and search of Bloomfire sold us on it.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ConfluenceBloomfire
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Atlassian Confluence and Bloomfire
    Feature
    Atlassian Confluence
    5.3
    111 Ratings
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management6.389 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.912 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.221 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation4.060 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access3.884 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search5.7109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools2.488 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Atlassian Confluence and Bloomfire
    Feature
    Atlassian Confluence
    6.9
    111 Ratings
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Chat6.415 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications5.2109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions3.9103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase7.6103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts9.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook9.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Atlassian Confluence and Bloomfire
    Feature
    Atlassian Confluence
    5.9
    111 Ratings
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning6.494 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files4.271 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files3.765 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration6.5106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control8.0104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features7.080 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive5.947 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync5.650 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    ConfluenceBloomfire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (128 ratings)
    9.2
    (174 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (19 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    6.6
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.4
    (25 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)