Atlassian Confluence vs. Microsoft SharePoint

Atlassian Confluence

2,307 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft SharePoint

2,522 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Confluence	Score7.8 out of 10	N/A	Confluence 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
SharePoint	Score7.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's SharePoint is an Intranet solution that enables users to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and collaborate across the organization.	$5 Per User Per Month

Pricing

Confluence

SharePoint

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

Plan 1: $5.00
Per User Per Month
Plan 2: $10.00
Per User Per Month
Office 365 E3: $20.00
Per User Per Month

Pricing Offerings
Confluence	SharePoint
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

Prices 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
Key User Insights
	Confluence	SharePoint
Considered Both Products	Atlassian Verified User Chose Confluence Confluence has a more robust set of capabilities compared to Dovetail and Trello and also was already approved by our legal and compliance teams, so it tends to keep its stickiness due to that. It's also widely known in the market as a knowledge management tool. I would say it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence SharePoint in out organisation was mostly used for collaborating on documents, which to some degree has been moved to Confluence, where the Confluence pages have replaced the specific documents. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence We chose Atlassian Confluence over SharePoint because it's much more user-friendly and intuitive. Atlassian Confluence makes collaboration and knowledge sharing easier with its simpler interface and better search. While SharePoint can be powerful, it often feels clunky and … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager in Sales at Proximus Global (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Confluence Again, Atlassian Confluence is efficient when paired with Jira and can do most of what a company needs it to do. But, I thi Spekit is better for "just-in-time" learning, SharePoint is better for file hosting and organization, Asana is much better for project/task management, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence SharePoint is use by our operational teams as it allows team sites to be set up with links heading out to other resources. It is almost like a central hub or intranet. Confluence doesn't quite work in the same way however it does a better job functioning as a knowledge base. Incentivized Helpful? Manas Singh IT Architect in Information Technology at Guardian (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Confluence Atlassian Confluence is more intuitive than MS SharePoint, however, SharePoint has some reach features because of the MS integration with its tools stack. Incentivized Helpful? Amit Kumar Sharma CTO in Engineering at Hubble Connected (Consumer Electronics, 51-200 employees) Chose Confluence We find Atlassian better for its ease of use, real time editing, integration with Jira for bug tracking, stores our security compliance documents in structured way, it is feature rich and have lots of capabilities. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence We use Jira for the IT tickets, so the step to use Atlassian Confluence was the logical decisson. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence We were inclined to use Atlassian Confluence for its easy collaboration with Jira which is used for tracking project development tasks and issues. Using Atlassian Confluence, content creation became easy and even applying access control to the created content was possible. It … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence Atlassian Confluence is more user friendly. Is a bit slower to use than Nuclino, but Atlassian Confluence is generally better suited for our use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence I personally prefer the usage of alternative project management or document storage apps. Atlassian Confluence is useful in having a centralised spot for multiple types of information, as opposed to Trello for example, and is much more structured. However, it has low visual … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence Confluence is unmatched when it comes to enterprise-level wiki/document repositories. Since we also use Jira, it is a no-brainer to use Confluence. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence Confluence smashes competitors out of the ballpark. There is no compromise for quality and great product design with Atlassian Incentivized Helpful? Binoy Shah Software Integration Tester in Quality Assurance at Wirecard (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Confluence It's quite famous and consistency and alignment are what we're after with using Confluence and all of Atlassian's products. This has helped us to be more transparent with out product and development teams as well. Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Tillett Director, Build and Release Engineering in Research & Development at Cisco AppDynamics (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Confluence [Atlassian] Confluence is backed by direct, and superior support from Atlassian versus their vendors. For end users, [Atlassian] Confluence provides way more options for layout and content, while also being simpler and easier to use. Most other tools also require a higher … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence Atlassian is better suited for project management than SharePoint. Also, most employees are already had experience around Atlassian. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Lauer Software Engineer in Engineering at GroundTruth (Environmental Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Confluence We used Confluence because we were already using BitBucket and it was within the same family. I haven't really used any other software that would be like this other than SharePoint and this is slightly better. On a whole I am not a fan of this type of software in general and … Incentivized Helpful? Sunny Grewal IT Administrator in Corporate at MathCraft Security Technologies, Inc. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Confluence Sharepoint is a little bit more complex to get set up. You have to invent part of the wheels to make the product work for you. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence SharePoint has grown to be a very large and complicated beast. We needed something simple and easy to use that our Employees could adopt and being used very quickly with minimal or no training. Incentivized Helpful? Kaleb-John Loo Senior Firmware Engineer in Engineering at Spirent Communications (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Confluence Atlassian Confluence is a simpler platform than Microsoft SharePoint, which is good and bad. It is much easier to use and has less overhead than SharePoint, which makes it ideal for quick documentation and sharing knowledge. If more advanced features and document sharing are … Incentivized Helpful? Clay Horste Software Developer III in Engineering at Opus Solutions (Events Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Confluence We were using MS SharePoint which was integrated with TFS for managing our developer workflow and it was quite clunky. We had to be signed into the VPN to access any of it and it relied upon Internet Explorer for access. It felt slow and sometimes you could use other browsers … Incentivized Helpful? Ammar Aldaffaie Oracle Service Cloud Developer in Customer Service at Willis Towers Watson's OneExchange (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Confluence SharePoint is great, I use it and I love it. Confluence is a lot like SharePoint with a more modern look and a fancy suit. If you have the skills for implementation, it is great and developers will enjoy it more. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Confluence SharePoint is used at my org as the main place to document projects and store other docs. While Confluence does not have the same check out functions for Word and Excel it is a living document and can do the same type of things. Also it is much easier and cleaner to look at. Incentivized Helpful? Jarod Bonino Senior Product Manager in Product Management at Blackbaud (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Confluence Overall, I would say that I do like Confluence more than tools like Sharepoint and OneNote for the purposes that we are using it for (basic team collaboration, task assignment, and decision tracking). I prefer the document relationship navigation of Confluence over Sharepoint. … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose SharePoint We still have Confluence and Google Drive, but we wanted a product that could provide document security and a single point of access that easily integrated into our active directory. Since we use this for our intranet site, we found the features easier to stand up and the UI … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint Teams is the new front end for SharePoint. So far, I like the look, feel and adaptability of it better. As for Confluence, I have never been a fan of it's searching capabilities. Additionally, we've encountered users having a hard time being aware of other "spaces" within … Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer Magoon IT Project Manager at Southern New Hampshire University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SharePoint we have tried Confluence as a collaboration tool as well. Confluence does have a steep learning curve in my opinion. I think SharePoint is easier to adapt to because it builds off of other Microsoft habits, but neither is super intuitive. If I were to pick one it would be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint SharePoint is a more mature product than Confluence but this does come with both positives and negatives. We are a heavy MS technology company so using SharePoint is a logical step for us. If you are not heavily invested in MS tech then Confluence is a perfectly viable option … Incentivized Helpful? Trent Kenelly, DTM Enterprise Applications Manager in Information Technology at Immedion (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose SharePoint Google Docs: Not enterprise ready, but great at multi user edits. Subsites and integration not native. Use of service accounts not a strong suit. Not audit friendly Slack: Discontinued due to security features and lack of AD integration (At the time) Confluence: Better at … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint JIRA has one of the easiest project management and workflow tools that have many integration points available. It also integrates with Confluence which provides easy and up-to-date information for both internal and external documentation. Dropbox and Google Drive provide a free … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Sawyer Web Developer in Information Technology at TCDRS (Investment Management, 51-200 employees) Chose SharePoint Atlassian Confluence isn't as robust with document storage but it does provide a good way to share detailed information in article or Wiki format. Microsoft SharePoint is more like a lightweight webpage creation tool while Confluence more like an enhanced notebook. Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Helmi Tatanaki Data Management Consultant in Information Technology at Shell (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees) Chose SharePoint The reasons for selecting MS SharePoint are: SharePoint provides ease of use and web design assistance and support SharePoint helps you schedule your content for publishing. enables users to share documents with external parties and offers a better internal structure of the … Incentivized Helpful? Kaleb-John Loo Senior Firmware Engineer in Engineering at Spirent Communications (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SharePoint SharePoint has more features than Google Drive, but is not free. It has the ability to present full web pages, which Google Drive does not have. It also has integration into Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Outlook which are strong product lines for business. Googl… Incentivized Helpful? Canh Tran Sr Technology Architect in Research & Development at TELUS (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose SharePoint There are overlapping capabilities of SharePoint and the above list of products. The simplest form seems to be the Google Suite of products that provide cloud integration with document creation, such as Docs/Slides/Sheets/Forms where storage is in Drive. The cloud nature … Incentivized Helpful? MEGAN BOATWRIGHT Senior Customer Care Representative in Customer Service at Helix (Biotechnology, 51-200 employees) Chose SharePoint We use Google Drive as well BUT the functions that are available in SharePoint are not translated in Google Docs. Formatting and uploading are not the same and some of the Excel functions do not transfer over. SharePoint makes it seamless! Either system is good but the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint Sharepoint stacks up very well against all of its competitor software. It gets upgrades at the right time. However, from an integration perspective, none of the other software are able to do so properly with SharePoint. It is a very basic use of project management and access to … Incentivized Helpful? Stefan Trbojevic CCC Team Lead in Information Technology at NCR Corporation (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose SharePoint MS SharePoint stacks great against its competitors for a simple reason, it is perfectly integrated into Microsoft ecosystem, as it is tightly synchronized with Skype for business, Outlook, Outlook calendar and any other O365 software. The great thing about MS SharePoint is that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint MS SharePoint has more practical functionalities because we use MS Office software. Incentivized Helpful? Stanislava Pavlovic Account manager in Information Technology at Akton Serbia (Telecommunications, 11-50 employees) Chose SharePoint SharePoint is well up front from its competitors. For a simple reason, it is integrated with THE Office package and all the Office programs which are widely used across the numerous companies. Its integration with OneDrive makes it even better and offers something that no … Incentivized Helpful? Ammar Aldaffaie Oracle Service Cloud Developer in Customer Service at Willis Towers Watson's OneExchange (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose SharePoint For the use case we have I think SharePoint is the best fit for the task being done. It is so flexible at the same time simple and powerful. It does not require a lot of coding skills and, with even with the basic knowledge, you can still do a lot. Incentivized Helpful? Jason V. Tuazon, CPM Project Manager in Corporate at UL (Outsourcing/Offshoring, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SharePoint Ease of use, ease of setup, ease of administration, ease of configuration, ease of customization... what's not to like? SharePoint's got exactly what you need. Just don't expect too many frills, bells, whistles in terms of UI, but even then, it gets the job done. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Corbett Database Administrator in Information Technology at Watco (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SharePoint We selected SharePoint mainly due to the fact that we were already using an older version. Migration to a new system would require significant end-user training. Being a "Microsoft Shop," stakeholders were well informed on how the product "should function" etc. In addition to … Helpful?
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Features

Confluence

SharePoint

Comparison of Project Management features of Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft SharePoint
Feature	Atlassian Confluence 5.3 111 Ratings	Microsoft SharePoint - Ratings
Task Management	6.389 Ratings	00 Ratings
Gantt Charts	7.912 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scheduling	7.221 Ratings	00 Ratings
Workflow Automation	4.060 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Access	3.884 Ratings	00 Ratings
Search	5.7109 Ratings	00 Ratings
Visual planning tools	2.488 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Communication features of Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft SharePoint
Feature	Atlassian Confluence 6.9 111 Ratings	Microsoft SharePoint - Ratings
Chat	6.415 Ratings	00 Ratings
Notifications	5.2109 Ratings	00 Ratings
Discussions	3.9103 Ratings	00 Ratings
Surveys	7.015 Ratings	00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	7.7103 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	6.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	9.37 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	9.610 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft SharePoint
Feature	Atlassian Confluence 5.9 111 Ratings	Microsoft SharePoint - Ratings
Versioning	6.494 Ratings	00 Ratings
Video files	4.271 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	3.765 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	6.5106 Ratings	00 Ratings
Access control	8.0104 Ratings	00 Ratings
Advanced security features	7.080 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	5.947 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	5.650 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Confluence	SharePoint
Likelihood to Recommend	6.7 (128 ratings)	9.5 (194 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (19 ratings)	9.8 (21 ratings)
Usability	6.6 (15 ratings)	8.2 (17 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.4 (25 ratings)	8.6 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	4.5 (1 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.8 (4 ratings)	6.0 (4 ratings)
Configurability	6.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Data Sources	- (0 ratings)	6.1 (2 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)