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Confluence

Overview

What is Confluence?

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.

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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud
Free for 10 Users

Standard

$6.40

Cloud
per month per user

Premium

$12.30

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $6.40 per month per user
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Product Demos

Confluence-Demo: Unterseiten bis in beliebige Tiefe anlegen

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Atlassian Confluence 101 - Delete and Restore a Page

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Atlassian Confluence 101 - Organize Pages

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Sibling Tabs User Macro for Atlassian Confluence

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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

7
Avg 7.7

Communication

Features that allow team members to communicate about collaborative projects and keep each other informed of their opinions and progress.

7.9
Avg 7.9

File Sharing & Management

Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.

7.7
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

What is Confluence?

Confluence aims to give you the power to create anything and everything, from meeting notes, project plans, product requirements, and more. Include multimedia, dynamic content, and make your work come to life.

Share PDFs, Office docs, images, and more in Confluence. Automatic versioning, instant previews, full-text search, and pinned comments make it easy to manage your files.

Confluence Features

Project Management Features

  • Supported: Task Management
  • Supported: Workflow Automation
  • Supported: Mobile Access
  • Supported: File tracking
  • Supported: Tagging
  • Supported: Search
  • Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools
  • Supported: Visual planning tools

Communication Features

  • Supported: Status updates and activity feed
  • Supported: Notifications
  • Supported: Comments and feedback
  • Supported: Discussions
  • Supported: User directory and online status
  • Supported: Sharing and privacy
  • Supported: Internal knowledgebase

File Sharing & Management Features

  • Supported: Versioning
  • Supported: Document files
  • Supported: Image files
  • Supported: Video files
  • Supported: Audio files
  • Supported: Document collaboration
  • Supported: Shared folders
  • Supported: Access control
  • Supported: Advanced security features
  • Supported: Integrates with Google Drive
  • Supported: Device sync
  • Supported: Web interface
  • Supported: File change notifications
  • Supported: Simultaneous editing

Confluence Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Confluence starts at $6.4.

Microsoft Viva Engage, Microsoft SharePoint, and OpenText Vibe are common alternatives for Confluence.

Reviewers rate Integrates with Outlook highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Confluence are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

(1-5 of 112)

Easy to use, clean interface, expandable

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 24, 2013
VG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Atlassian Confluence
1 year of experience
  • Enterprise intranet wiki.
  • Primarily designed for documentation, how to's, instructionals.
  • Also used as a bulletin board for posting meeting minutes, project info & specs, announcements.
  • Very expandable with modules and plugins. Allowed embedding of Word and Excel sheets, and integrates with the JIRA ticketing system.
Cons
  • Could have a more robust system for comments.
  • Could have more options for more embedded content, like multimedia.
A fantastic intranet wiki for enterprise, with a cleaner interface and far more expandable options than standard wiki solutions.

Atlassian Confluence - basic user review

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 17, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
Atlassian Confluence
2 years of experience
We (stake managers who write stories for the development team) use it for creating the backlog for the development team and the development team uses it for managing sprints. The interface is very intuitive, so even users with no experience or knowledge of the process can easily understand it. Confluence helps us prioritize different development tasks from the business and revenue standpoint and we can also track how successful our dev team was in each sprint, which makes estimation of the following sprits easier.
  • Dashboard with backlog of dev tasks. Prioritization becomes just a matter of drugging items in the list and assigning points to each task. Super easy.
  • Sprint reports are also very helpful, they allow us to estimate how successful was our last sprint and what should be changed to successfully finish next sprint on time.
  • Cards for writing user stories are very intuitive and even people from production department, with no technical knowledge whatsoever can write a story.
Cons
  • Integrations with major calendars (Google, Apple, Outlook etc.) would be a good idea.
  • No other issues.
I think it's great for any project, as it helps to structure and streamline the process. Maybe the only scenario where it wouldn't be as appropriate would be a big art team with a lot of images and other art assets that they would need to collaborate on.

Well Managed and Very User Friendly

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 18, 2014
VJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Atlassian Confluence
1 year of experience
It was used to develop a wiki for employees. This wiki was intended to help understand the importance of information security, and the do's and dont's in the organization.
  • It has a very good Good GUI with lots of features particularly creating macros; it made my job easier.
  • The Task List and its notifications helped me to synchronize my work.
Cons
  • Nothing that I can think of now.
It will be always well suited to any organization where they want to share specific information and also restrict access to people who are not supposed to have access. It is a well managed tool.

User for collaboration with IT on HR Projects

Rating: 6 out of 10
April 03, 2019
JP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Atlassian Confluence
1 year of experience
Our organization utilizes Confluence along with Jira for additional project documentation and collaboration. Details on every part of our projects are captured, stored, and shared using confluence. This includes meeting notes, shared worksheets, requirements documents, system architecture as well as some process and procedures/outcomes of the projects. IT utilizes this system as a required way to store change information for updates and enhancements.
  • Fairly easy to use this product. The UI itself is user-friendly and easy to follow.
  • Collaboration and updates are easy to turn on or off.
  • The product is very scalable and can capture and organize a lot of data in one place.
Cons
  • Some of the options do not always work, this may be local setting but I find the option to edit some documents via Confluence to not always work, and we need to download, update, and then re-upload the document as a new version.
  • Where there are a lot of notes and documentation entries it can be difficult to keep track of or sort through everything. How you utilize the program and label things is very important.
Confluence can link to Jira and be utilized as part of your project management solution. I think if you are using Jira this application may make sense to utilize for tracking all important details. However, I haven't seen other projects that have a connection to Jira to say that this is the best product available. With big projects, the document trail seems to be a little messy.

Confluence does a lot, but needs to be more user friendly

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 03, 2018
We use Confluence across our organization. We all work remotely so it is a place where we can collaborate on projects, we post our meeting agendas, we post tutorials, training, etc. Any content that employees need to access to do their jobs we put on Confluence. For example, we can put processes on how to complete certain tasks on confluence and we also task each other to complete certain items.
  • Organizing content so that people can find what they are looking for.
  • Putting restrictions on certain pages so that it can be seen/edited by appropriate employees
  • Letting people collaborate on documents simultaneously
  • notifying when a page has been updated
  • combining content with tasks so that things get done
Cons
  • The tables feature is horrible. Really hard to edit, and make look nice. I end of just posting screen shots of excel.
  • It can be confusing and overwhelming for new users. I would not say it is intuitive.
It works well for remote teams that need to communicate and keep track of many projects happening all at once. It keeps everything all in one place so that everyone can find things and we all know where stuff should go. If you are tracking KPIs using complicated formulas in excel, you will find it annoying to try and replicate that in confluence.
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