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Atlassian Confluence vs. Google Chat

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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

    Google Chat

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Chat, formerly Hangouts Chat, is a collaboration tool competing with Slack, designed to make it easy for teams to be able to get their work done in one place. From direct messages to group conversations, Chat helps teams collaborate, and with dedicated, virtual rooms to house projects over time — plus threaded conversations — Chat helps users track progress and follow up tasks. Chat currently supports 28 languages and each room can support up to 8,000 members.N/A
    Pricing
    ConfluenceGoogle Chat
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ConfluenceGoogle Chat
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    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
    ConfluenceGoogle Chat
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    Chose Confluence
    The alternatives tested are based only on the whiteboarding functionality added by Confluence Whiteboard, and not the core Confluence functionality (documentation).

    Incentivized
    Google
    Chose Google Chat
    It doesn't need to much to get started if you have a personal Google account. If you have a business account setup by your organization, you need permissions to use it, however this is something good to have this customizable part from Google Chat. We can create groups, attach …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Chat
    The main reason why we chose it - the overall G Suite solution, that we bought. We have Google Calendar, GMail & Chat built in. In order not to waste money - we decided to use Google Chat. It works fine, however, as said before, if you had experience with Slack - then you might …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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
    ConfluenceGoogle Chat
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Atlassian Confluence and Google Chat
    Feature
    Atlassian Confluence
    5.3
    111 Ratings
    Google Chat
    8.4
    23 Ratings
    Task Management6.389 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.912 Ratings8.59 Ratings
    Scheduling7.221 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Workflow Automation4.060 Ratings7.912 Ratings
    Mobile Access3.884 Ratings9.322 Ratings
    Search5.7109 Ratings9.020 Ratings
    Visual planning tools2.488 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Atlassian Confluence and Google Chat
    Feature
    Atlassian Confluence
    6.9
    111 Ratings
    Google Chat
    8.9
    23 Ratings
    Chat6.415 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    Notifications5.2109 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    Discussions3.9103 Ratings8.321 Ratings
    Surveys7.015 Ratings8.515 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase7.6103 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting6.03 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts9.37 Ratings8.216 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook9.610 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Atlassian Confluence and Google Chat
    Feature
    Atlassian Confluence
    5.9
    111 Ratings
    Google Chat
    9.0
    23 Ratings
    Versioning6.494 Ratings8.716 Ratings
    Video files4.271 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Audio files3.765 Ratings8.319 Ratings
    Document collaboration6.5106 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Access control8.0104 Ratings9.516 Ratings
    Advanced security features7.080 Ratings10.017 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive5.947 Ratings8.116 Ratings
    Device sync5.650 Ratings9.321 Ratings
    User Ratings
    ConfluenceGoogle Chat
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (128 ratings)
    9.0
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (19 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    6.6
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.4
    (25 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 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)