Confluence vs HeyOrca

What users are saying about

Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 1574 reviews and ratings

Score 3.8 out of 10

Based on 11 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Project Management

7.5

Confluence

75%

HeyOrca

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Atlassian Confluence ranks higher in 7/7 features

Task Management

7.6

76%

82 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Gantt Charts

7.9

79%

12 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Scheduling

7.2

72%

21 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Workflow Automation

8.0

80%

54 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Mobile Access

6.9

69%

80 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Search

7.8

78%

102 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Visual planning tools

7.5

75%

81 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Communication

8.0

Confluence

80%

HeyOrca

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Atlassian Confluence ranks higher in 8/8 features

Chat

6.4

64%

15 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Notifications

8.6

86%

102 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Discussions

7.9

79%

96 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Surveys

7.0

70%

15 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Internal knowledgebase

9.3

93%

96 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Integrates with GoToMeeting

6.0

60%

3 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts

9.3

93%

7 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Integrates with Outlook

9.6

96%

10 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

8.2

Confluence

82%

HeyOrca

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Atlassian Confluence ranks higher in 8/8 features

Versioning

8.6

86%

88 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Video files

7.7

77%

65 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Audio files

8.0

80%

59 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Document collaboration

8.5

85%

99 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Access control

8.8

88%

97 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Advanced security features

8.5

85%

73 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Integrates with Google Drive

7.9

79%

46 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Device sync

8.0

80%

45 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Publishing

Confluence

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.0

HeyOrca

70%

HeyOrca ranks higher in 3/3 features

Content planning and scheduling

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

5 Ratings

Audience targeting

N/A

0 Ratings

6.0

60%

3 Ratings

Workflow management

N/A

0 Ratings

6.0

60%

5 Ratings

Engagement

Confluence

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.0

HeyOrca

70%

HeyOrca ranks higher in 1/1 features

Bulk actions

N/A

0 Ratings

7.0

70%

4 Ratings

Channel coverage/integration

Confluence

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.5

HeyOrca

75%

HeyOrca ranks higher in 4/4 features

Twitter

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

Facebook

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

Instagram

N/A

0 Ratings

6.0

60%

5 Ratings

Account management

Confluence

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.5

HeyOrca

85%

HeyOrca ranks higher in 2/2 features

Role-based user permissions & privileges

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

5 Ratings

Mobile access

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Atlassian Confluence is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
HeyOrca is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Usability

Confluence

83%

121 Ratings

8.1

HeyOrca

81%

5 Ratings

Confluence

97%

19 Ratings

10.0

HeyOrca

100%

1 Rating

Confluence

83%

12 Ratings

9.0

HeyOrca

90%

1 Rating

Confluence

90%

5 Ratings

HeyOrca

N/A

0 Ratings

Confluence

80%

9 Ratings

HeyOrca

N/A

0 Ratings

Confluence

66%

45 Ratings

HeyOrca

N/A

0 Ratings

Confluence

84%

6 Ratings

HeyOrca

N/A

0 Ratings

Confluence

80%

2 Ratings

HeyOrca

N/A

0 Ratings

Pros

QUICK How-to Guides that can be generated and share instantly
One can subscribe to the pages and spaces and receive updates in the feed on their home page
Automatic Email notifications of new updates in the Confluence area
The platform integrates easily with other Atlassian platforms including third-party apps thus improving its reliability

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Binoy Shah

Software Integration Tester

WirecardFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees

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Provides client friendly view that allows clients to easily see what content will look like on their social platforms.
Provides a one-stop option for multiple client and platform content to live.
Great customer service and extremely responsive help center.
Easy to use and learn interface.

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Lydia Tissandier

Assistant Art Director

OOHologyMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Some of the components can be a little clunky to use and configure on pages.
I've run into a few issues where edited pages refuse to publish and work is either lost or time wasted copying and pasting to a new document that will publish.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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The interface is kind of slow to respond.
The media library sometimes breaks.

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Verified User

Director in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$10 per month

Confluence Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Server	10.00¹
Server	2700.00²
Server	5300.00³
Server	10,200.00⁴
Server	19,800.00⁵
Server	30,000.00⁶
Server	45,000.00⁷
Server	90,000.00⁸
Server	150,000.00⁹
Data Center	15,000.00¹⁰
Data Center	30,000.00¹¹
Data Center	52,000.00¹²
Data Center	79,200.00¹³
Data Center	105,600.00¹⁴
Data Center	132,000.00¹⁵
Data Center	143,000.00¹⁶
Data Center	154,000.00¹⁷
Data Center	165,000.00¹⁸
Data Center	176,000.00¹⁹
Data Center	187,000.00²⁰
Data Center	198,000.00²¹
Data Center	209,000.00²²
Data Center	220,000.00²³

10 Users - Perpetual License
25 Users - Perpetual License
50 Users - Perpetual License
100 Users - Perpetual License
250 Users - Perpetual License
500 Users - Perpetual License
2,000 Users - Perpetual License
10,000 Users - Perpetual License
10,001+ Users - Perpetual License
500 Users - Annually
1,000 Users - Annually
2,000 Users - Annually
3,000 Users - Annually
4,000 Users - Annually
5,000 Users - Annually
10,000 Users - Annually
15,000 Users - Annually
20,000 Users - Annually
25,000 Users - Annually
30,000 Users - Annually
35,000 Users - Annually
40,000 Users - Annually
40,001+ Users - Annually

SaaS Edition

Free	0.00¹
Standard	5.00²
Premium	10.00²
Enterprise	Contact Sales

Free for 10 Users
Per User Per Month
none

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$99 Per Calendar per month

HeyOrca Editions & Modules

Edition

Annual Price	$99.00¹

Per Calendar per month

Additional Pricing Details

Plans start at: $99 USD Per Month. From there, the price scales according to your needs, up to a maximum of $499 USD per month.

Likelihood to Renew

Confluence 9.7

Based on 19 answers

I am confident that Atlassian can come with additional and innovative macros and functions to add value to Confluence. In 6 months, Atlassian transformed a good collaborative tools into a more comprehensive system that can help manage projects and processes, as well as "talk" with other Atlassian products like Jira. We are in fact learning more about Jira to evaluate a possible fit to complement our tool box.

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Charles Thomasset, MBA

Director, Project/Process Management

Lehigh UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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HeyOrca 10.0

Based on 1 answer

We decided today that we were renewing our use

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Lydia Tissandier

Assistant Art Director

OOHologyMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Confluence 8.3

Based on 12 answers

Confluence can - and in my personal opinion, it will - be a bit hard to use in the first moment. Atlassian is a great company and is eager to help you with any question you have, though. The interface seems to be a bit clumsy at first but the customization options are enough to make it easier and simpler. In general, Confluence is easy to use when you understand what each section does, but this can take a while.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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HeyOrca 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Hey Orca has a lot of really great features, they make the workflow really easy and are extremely available for help with questions. I think there are some minor workflow issues that it could overcome and features it could add on that are available in other apps. It definitely doesn't offer the best analytics and also hasn't offered single image direct publishing like hootsuite does. Yet, it's benefits outweigh those minor inconveniences for our team

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Lydia Tissandier

Assistant Art Director

OOHologyMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Confluence 9.0

Based on 5 answers

I do not recall having outages or applications error so far, very reliable and available.

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Normand Whitehead

Senior R&D Eng. Technologist

Trilliant IncTelecommunications, 201-500 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Performance

Confluence 8.0

Based on 9 answers

Pages load very quickly, which makes it useful for quickly obtaining information. The search functionality is also very quick and is able to parse through all of the documents to provide the most relevant results for the query. Other information based software gets bogged down, but so far Atlassian Confluence maintains its performance.

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Kaleb-John Loo

Senior Firmware Engineer

Spirent CommunicationsTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Support Rating

Confluence 6.6

Based on 45 answers

This rating is specifically for Atlassian's self-help documentation on their website. Often times, it is not robust enough to cover a complex usage of one of their features. Frequently, you can find an answer on the web, but not from Atlassian. Instead, it is usually at a power user group elsewhere on the net.

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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Pharmaceuticals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Implementation Rating

Confluence 8.4

Based on 6 answers

Overall, I am very satisfied with the initial implementation (and the subsequent upgrades and implementations made over the years).

This product has never rose to the level of being an major issue at an executive level. It has quietly and valiantly done it's job for our company!

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Bill Kratzer

Chief Innovation Officer

Versatile CreditFinancial Services, 11-50 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

I haven't use any other software that I could compare to AtlassianConfluence. The closest one would be Sharepoint, but it's a different beast. Sharepoint has more feature, but it's a lot harder to use and understand. Furthermore like many Microsoft solutions the UI is terrible and very difficult to understand sometimes. Atlassian Confluence is just plain easy to use.

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Benoît Desroches

Senior Web Team Lead

AlithyaComputer Games, 10,001+ employees

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Much easier to use and understand.HeyOrca does what they do and they do it best, they don't complicate it with other things like Sprout Social does.

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Morgan Alverson

Content Strategist

Syrup MarketingMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

Confluence 8.0

Based on 2 answers

This tool is very adaptable. So much so we use it for three completely separate projects, in three very different ways.

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Verified User

Consultant in Marketing

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Return on Investment

We've gone from folders and folders of Word documents and PDFs into a single system with a search feature to bring all of our data together and trackable
While onboarding took a bit longer for the company (to switch from a Word document centric mindset - to a web-based one), overall the company has embraced the features and power of Confluence within the working stack
However, as costs continue to climb for the Atlassian product, we are forced to continue our evaluation of the product - with replacing it a remote possibility if it begins to outprice its usefulness to us.

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Brandon Patton

Manager, Information Technology

Engineering InnovationIndustrial Automation, 51-200 employees

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Sustains our clients due to its layout and user-friendliness
Doesn't really allow for a lot of SEO work in the platform which doesn't help get clients

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Michael Neubert

New Sales Consultant

University of DenverHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Confluence

HeyOrca

Confluence

HeyOrca

Task Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Mobile Access

Search

Visual planning tools

Confluence

HeyOrca

Chat

Notifications

Discussions

Surveys

Internal knowledgebase

Integrates with GoToMeeting

Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts

Integrates with Outlook

Confluence

HeyOrca

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

Advanced security features

Integrates with Google Drive

Device sync

Confluence

HeyOrca

Content planning and scheduling

Audience targeting

Workflow management

Confluence

HeyOrca

Bulk actions

Confluence

HeyOrca

Twitter

Facebook

LinkedIn

Instagram

Confluence

HeyOrca

Role-based user permissions & privileges

Mobile access

Confluence

HeyOrca

Confluence

HeyOrca

Confluence

HeyOrca

Confluence

HeyOrca

Confluence

HeyOrca

Confluence

HeyOrca

Confluence

HeyOrca

Confluence

HeyOrca

Likelihood to Recommend

Confluence

HeyOrca

Pros

Confluence

HeyOrca

Cons

Confluence

HeyOrca

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?