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Atlassian

Confluence

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

232 Reviews Write a Review

What is Confluence?

Confluence is your remote-friendly team workspace where knowledge and collaboration meet. Confluence turns conversations into action built for lasting knowledge so you never lose great ideas or context in a transient notification or chat. From marketing and sales to development and operations, Confluence has solutions for every type of team and project to get your team doing the real work right away.

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Awards & Recognition

Confluence won the following awards in the Document Management category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2024

Confluence Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Confluence?

2% Negative

6% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Document Hosting

Document Sharing

Security and Access Control

Access Tracking

Editor Functions

Version Control

Searchability

Metrics and Reporting

Publication Workflow

Indexing and Classification

Check Out Check in

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

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Confluence Reviews

Harry M.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Outstanding Project Management Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Compared to its competition the tool shines in enhancing how the project management and document sharing happens. Its an easy to use fro all the ends. With the tool you are able to know the status of a project in the background.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ease of use and integration. The tool is also easy to customize.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Every feature of the tool just works fine.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommend the tool to any organization that carries project and document management.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Basil J.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Deliver good feature set and value for the price

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Workflow automation Efficient search Mobile access

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Files sharing and management of versions Simultaneous editing of documents Easy Document collaboration

What do you dislike most about this product?

Lack of text completion feature Inflexible design Smart commit linking

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is a best suite for documentation with tree structure arrangements gives proper visual to the docs

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Prerna G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2024

Very popular and works great with Jira

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Since its from Atlassian which already has a Jira for issue tracking and project management and is very popular especially for engineering teams and since it has nice integration with Jira and engineering team has lot of documents(design documents, notes, knowledge articles) to manage, which requires good RTE(rich text editor) and also works a lot with Jira, so it works great for the software teams to manage their project documents.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

In the document, you can easily collaborate also by commenting and resolving them, this is used by my team for the design document which goes through various edits based on the comments and suggestion by other team members.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Atlassian products search in general is not good, whether its searching for issues in Jira or searching for relevant document in Confluence, in jira, you can still use JQL and save it but Confluence is like a website and its full text search lots of time doesn't bring the fresh and relevant search results.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

if you are already using Jira than go for Confluence but if you are not using jira, have some comparison and ask other team members of other document management software and take their feedback before finalising anything as this is difficult to change later.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Saves Time
Includes Product Enhancements

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Confluence Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Confluence?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Document Hosting Centralized hosting of electronic documents, allowing the ability for contributors to upload to a secure area.

Document Sharing Document sharing is the ability to share a document with those who have not been granted explicit access

Security and Access Control Securing of electronic documents from unauthorized access and the ability to assign access to specific users or user groups.

Access Tracking The tracking of document access, including who had opened it or downloaded it.

Editor Functions Features to allow designated editors to have the ability to review a document, make notes, corrections, and insert markups for re-editing by the author(s).

Version Control Tracking of document versions with each iteration of document changes.

Searchability DMSes generally allow for the ability to conduct searches on document content.

Metrics and Reporting This feature enables the DMS administrator to produce reports on the DMS, such as document volumes, document access, publication trends, etc.

Publication Workflow Workflow capability that routes documents across defined roles in the publication process, either for review, editing, publication, etc.

Indexing and Classification Where the DMS will search the contents of all documents, index search results and organize them based on the organization’s taxonomy

Check Out Check in Similar to checking out or signing out a book from the library, this option enables a similar function for designated documents.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Confluence Reviews

Harry M.

Outstanding Project Management Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Basil J.

Deliver good feature set and value for the price

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Prerna G.

Very popular and works great with Jira

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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