Atlassian Confluence vs. Microsoft Planner

Atlassian Confluence

Microsoft Planner

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Confluence	Score 8.1 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.	$0 Free for 10 Users
Microsoft Planner	Score 7.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Planner is presented as a solution to organize teamwork with intuitive, collaborative, visual task management. With it, users can create Kanban boards using task cards with files, checklists, and labels. Users can collaborate in Planner and Microsoft Teams and check visual status charts—all in the Microsoft cloud.	N/A

Pricing

Atlassian Confluence

Microsoft Planner

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
Confluence	Microsoft Planner
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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
	Atlassian Confluence	Microsoft Planner
Considered Both Products	Confluence Krishna Kumar sr. CSA Chose Confluence It has great features like integration and real time collaboration with new features like AI and automation. So it gives an edge over other tools I have used in the past few years. I am sure there are a lot of features which I have not explored yet, but the features I am using … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence Atlassian Confluence has a more comprehensive and flexible set of capabilities that stand out and made the decision upfront more straightforward for our team. The tools we evaluated have knowledge management, task management and collaboration capabilities, however Atlassian … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence Atlassian Confluence is way popular for a larger team and makes collaboration way easier. The community is strong and you get easier resolution against any request. It's integration with other Atlassian products like JIRA is an icing on the cake. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence In my experience, Atlassian Confluence is at the top of these tools. I've had first hand experience with other tools and they are not at par with Atlassian Confluence. The versatility of the tool is very well recognized and utilized. Being a new user is not a probably as all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence I think both are good Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence Atlassian Confluence is a super handy hub for sharing ideas and keeping all your docs in one place. While Jira Service Management is more about handling tickets and support issues, Atlassian Confluence really makes teamwork easy. I feel Atlassian Confluence is user-friendly, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence We choose Atlassian Confluence because it is the reference for managing a SAAS wiki service. And having such a solution in our company to manage the knowledge and especially the knowledge transfer is crucial. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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? Rodrigo Diaz Product Manager Chose Confluence It's good if you're using Atlassian products, the other ones provide different connections and better UX for documentation in different ways. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence Overall, Atlassian Confluence is a user-friendly tool and offers such a vast array of capabilities for project and knowledge management purposes and beyond. Other tools listed above have much more limited capabilities, although they are great tools for very specific needs and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence The main reason for moving to Atlassian Confluence was for: 1) Having 1 space that holds all of the org's documentation and knowledge sharing 2)We already used JSM and Jira so it would an organic move to have Atlassian Confluence as our main documentation hub 3) The cost … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence Confluence, since it is part of the overall infrastructure of Atlassian, makes it immensely powerful internally, to build an internal knowledgebase, and is far ahead of its counterparts in Zendesk and Hubspot, which is more centered towards their customers. Confluence is just … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous Chose Confluence Being a company which uses other Atlassian tools, Atlassian Confluence was a great fit; the natural and automatic linking of assets from other platforms made following paper trails seamless. Though the editing options aren't as advanced as some other options out there, it does … Incentivized Helpful? Amit Kumar Sharma CTO 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 Anonymous Chose Confluence In the past, I have used MediaWiki hosted locally as well as Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Wiki was simply a nightmare so all the money saved from paying for Atlassian subscriptions was lost in time while trying to use Wiki and format something properly. I haven't used … Incentivized Helpful? Pavel Zagorodnikh Product Manager Chose Confluence I did not select Atlassian Confluence — it was already there. I wouldn't pick it If I had the choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence We use Jira for the IT tickets, so the step to use Atlassian Confluence was the logical decisson. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence Atlassian Confluence is better suited for documenting and acting as a repository for information than the more immediate what is currently being worked on things that are better suited for in Jira. In my opinion, Atlassian Confluence certainly has it's short comings but it is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence We still use Atlassian Confluence only for its integration with Jira and Bitbucket. For everything else, we moved away from it and are using more modern solutions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence Freshdesk is basically for support teams, while Confluence is better for internal communication and collaborations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Confluence The alternatives tested are based only on the whiteboarding functionality added by Confluence Whiteboard, and not the core Confluence functionality (documentation). Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager 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 Anonymous 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?	Microsoft Planner Richard (Ric) Hazel Strategy Planning Advisor Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner is far superior and doesn't require expensive training to give people access to it. It is far easier to customize and allows for people to add projects and milestones without the cumbersome interface that Agility offers. I would far rather use Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner We tried to select software from various tools, and in the end we chose Planner both for economic reasons (it is included in the Microsoft 365 license we have in the company) and for its ease of use (we have no particular or specific needs, such as advanced scheduling or ticket … Incentivized Helpful? MC Micaella Cirilo Talent Acquisition Specialist Chose Microsoft Planner Main reason is that it is cost efficient because we're already using Microsoft 365 and it's literally part of the ecosystem. No need to purchase any other software. Microsoft is also a well known company, credible for providing business solutions and has a strong enterprise … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner is free and integrated with other Microsoft products that we use. We don't have a need for something more sophisticated given the price it would have cost to purchase licenses for a dedicated task/project mgmt tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner isn't as detailed for project planning as some of these. However, it is more user friendly. Anyone can learn how to use it. If you want simple and affordable for a diverse group, it's the way to go. Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager Chose Microsoft Planner Our organization chose MS Planner because it is an included tool in the MS Suite, and since we are unfortunately replacing our current and much better project management tool due to a consolidation of the tech stack. However, it doesn't appear that any of the teams using the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner In my experience, Microsoft Planner has much less features and less effective than other project management tools. But, it's free and included as part of Microsoft 365, so senior management may think it's saving them money. However, the poor productivity and the inefficient … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner The Planner has a more straightforward and intuitive interface, making it ideal for teams that want to get started quickly without a steep learning curve. Additionally, Planner is more budget-friendly, making it a better option for smaller teams like mine. Additionally, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner We used Microsoft Planner because it was free to our organization but ended up paying for Asana for more features we needed for our team. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner stands out for its seamless integration with Microsoft 365, making collaboration with tools like Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint effortless. Its user-friendly interface, with drag-and-drop features and color-coded labels, simplifies task management. Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Aldridge Learning Analytics Lead Chose Microsoft Planner Compared to the other options, we already had access to Microsoft Planner, preconfigured accounts, and support and ordination from tech internally to use it. We previously used Wrike, I wanted to use Asana, and other people in the organisation either used Microsoft Project, or … Incentivized Helpful? francesca turra Project Manager Chose Microsoft Planner The integration with Microsoft Teams is a must that other platform doesn't have. Incentivized Helpful? DA Deepika Arora Digital Marketer Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner was included in our package of Microsoft email. Thus, we [don't] have to pay anything separately. This is was the main reason. However, the functionality we required was similar. [Microsoft] Planner also gives a schedule calendar where we can add tasks as per … Incentivized Helpful? Quratulain Habib, PMP Partner / Director / Head of Projects Chose Microsoft Planner While Asana and Trello are mature products, Planner is getting there pretty quickly. Since our organization is on the Microsoft ecosystem, it helps to use SSO for most of the apps that are within the same license. It helps save money and does the work. For proper project … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner won out over Todoist due to it's ability to integrate other software and allow us to be able to do more work in one software. The project management functions were superior as well. Probably the biggest advantage was the task management. We liked how it worked … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Have moved to JIRA in my recent project. I can say Microsoft plan is a good option but JIRA is more powerful compare to this tool. The only thing is its integration and easy communication feature between teams or assigned groups stand it out while comparing with the similar … Incentivized Helpful? DS Darshil S Assistant Manager Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner has a clear cut edge over all the other project planning software of having its native and extensive capability of integrating with the Office 365 apps which everyone uses heavily. Also, it is highly accessible and usable to a large extent through PDAs and … Incentivized Helpful? Christie Carbone Digital Marketing Analyst Chose Microsoft Planner Pros: Communicating with all members of the plan is easy since it’s part of the Office 365 suite. This allows you to easily communicate via Outlook. You can quickly view all the tasks everyone is working across Boards Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner provides better integration with Microsoft products that are used across the organization as a whole. It provides better connection to SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Office products, and even in MS Outlook, which is the company's email client. Incentivized Helpful? Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Chose Microsoft Planner Many areas of the company still use Trello to organize their activities and tasks, but gradually Microsoft Planner must replace the activities. Users are often "attached" to familiar technologies, but Office 365 takes advantage of the more organized use of the tools. This year … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner I would recommend Planner for light project / team management with strong MS Teams integration. For a PMO / large project with resources/cost/gantt management, I would really recommend MS Project. Incentivized Helpful? John Bayerl Director of Teaching Excellence Chose Microsoft Planner I have not used any other products that serve a similar function to Microsoft Planner. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner, tho its user interface could be improved, was leaps and bounds better than TYA suite. Their user interface is difficult for many at our job site to use, especially the older generation. The decision to bring it in was largely a corporate decision. Individuals likely … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner I've used Asana and prefer it to Microsoft Planner. Asana has more functionalities than Planner and I think it is more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Trello is better as a one off product, but if you use the Microsoft suite then Planner integrates better into the rest of your day-to-day apps. The integration into team members' calendars and mail makes the ease of assigning tasks across our organization well worth using the … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Atlassian Confluence

Microsoft Planner

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Atlassian Confluence 7.1 Ratings 9% below category average	Microsoft Planner - Ratings
Task Management	7.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Gantt Charts	7.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scheduling	7.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Workflow Automation	6.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Access	6.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Search	6.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Visual planning tools	7.20 Ratings	00 Ratings

Communication

Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
	Atlassian Confluence 7.9 Ratings 1% below category average	Microsoft Planner - Ratings
Chat	6.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Notifications	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Discussions	7.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Surveys	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	9.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	9.60 Ratings	00 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Atlassian Confluence 7.7 Ratings 4% below category average	Microsoft Planner - Ratings
Versioning	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Video files	6.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	6.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Access control	8.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Advanced security features	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	5.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Atlassian Confluence	Microsoft Planner
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (0 ratings)	7.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.1 (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Atlassian Confluence	Microsoft Planner
Likelihood to Recommend	Atlassian Confluence is a great tool for housing important information and resources across the organization, as it's very easy to search and find content across different teams and departments. The search function is mostly very accurate and the additional tagging with keywords also helps in the search experience. It's also good at tagging other team members, which triggers an automated email to them. Atlassian Confluence also has an extensive template library for all kinds of purposes like project management, etc., which saves time overall. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Planner is a user-friendly visual tool for organizing tasks and workflows. It’s great for team collaboration, integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 tools like Teams and Outlook, and offers flexibility for projects of all sizes. Additionally, it provides mobile and web access for seamless productivity on the go. That’s a big plus right there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Its integration with Jira for tracking development and the bugs and work linked to detailed Confluence documentation. We use it extensively for writing Software Product Requirement Documents, feature specs, architecture designs, and retrospectives. Our company follows compliance very seriously, so it helps in streamlining all documentation for ISO27001/27017 compliance and security-related information. Its integration with various tools allows us to create flow diagrams which are often required to make client and customer understand the overall flow of interactions across various modules of the design architecture Incentivized Amit Kumar Sharma CTO Read full review	I love the ability to tag and untag others as needed I love the ability to customize the tag labels and that there are so many options I love the ability to add comments and it notifies the others tagged in the task I love that the task description can be changed as needed without notification to others assigned to the task Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	You need to watch over the structure of the content yourself. if not you can get information added anywhere so nobody can find it. Top search field is hard to set to only search a section of pages. You really need to think your structure through before starting. a guide when setting up at the start could help in that perspective. Incentivized WO WANNES OOSTERLYNCK Customer Support team leader Read full review	Does not allow you to view all tasks and sub-tasks (checklist) in a nested view. Comments have character limits that can make it harder for teams to communicate exactly what they want to share. There is no way to mention a teammate in a comment and share files and documents in the conversation (collaborative tool???). Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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. Charles Thomasset, MBA Director, Project/Process Management Read full review	It is a very useful tool that brings teams in sync with one another. The integration with other Microsoft products makes it an obvious choice because you don't have to purchase a license for a completely different tool that doesn't have cross-functional capabilities with the software you already use on a daily basis. Incentivized Richard (Ric) Hazel Strategy Planning Advisor Read full review
Usability	It's very intuitive for most things, making it easy to jump in and start creating pages and collaborating. This makes it ideal for onboarding new members to the team. There are a few areas that could be a little smoother, but overall it's a great experience. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The tool is easy to use, but it is just as easy to set up. No specific skills are required, but its usefulness in our work is immediately apparent. Colors are very helpful in creating a clear interface and providing a very precise overview of the tasks to be performed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	I do not recall having outages or applications error so far, very reliable and available. Incentivized Normand Whitehead Senior R&D Eng. Technologist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	We never worked against the tide while using Confluence. Everything loads considerably fast, even media components like videos (hosted on the platform or embed external videos from Youtube, for example). We are not using heavy media components a lot, but in the rare occasion we happen to use one we have no problems whatsoever. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	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! Incentivized Bill Kratzer Chief Innovation Officer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Atlassian Confluence is a super handy hub for sharing ideas and keeping all your docs in one place. While Jira Service Management is more about handling tickets and support issues, Atlassian Confluence really makes teamwork easy. I feel Atlassian Confluence is user-friendly, integrates smoothly with other Atlassian tools, and helps everyone stay in sync. It's great for brainstorming, and project planning as well. Overall, it is a great way to boost collaboration and ensure all team members are on the same page. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Our organization chose MS Planner because it is an included tool in the MS Suite, and since we are unfortunately replacing our current and much better project management tool due to a consolidation of the tech stack. However, it doesn't appear that any of the teams using the current program intend to use MS Planner due to its poor functionality. We will likely be pivoting to Jira instead. Incentivized Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager Read full review
Scalability	This tool is very adaptable. So much so we use it for three completely separate projects, in three very different ways. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Merging instances has saved search time - We used to have several instances of Atlassian Confluence, which means they're separate and so can't communicate with each other. We've since merged into one instance and now with the help of the search feature can find the documents you're looking for in seconds rather than several minutes. Cross linking product assets streamlines following paper trails - Being able to click on a BitBucket link from a Confluence page which then links to a JIRA ticket means you can follow paper trails really easily; seconds rather than several minutes. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Saved over $1000 each year by not having to purchase a third party tool for our content planning Not sure that I can provide a hard number to this, but having the oversight to see when something is coming due and making sure everything gets executed in time Incentivized Christie Carbone Digital Marketing Analyst Read full review
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