Confluence

I have worked in large companies where they have been overwhelmed by the various confluence sites. At the end of the day, document control has to be much better. Give confluence to developers and they run riot with half-completed pages or out-of-date material and very quickly the sites become a nightmare to administer. I would not recommend confluence where you have a serious library of documentation to maintain.

Good for documentation and tracking in general. May not be a good tool for real-time collaboration.

Integrations Users can integrate applications into Confluence either through templates created by other applications or through other Atlassian products. Users also tend to integrate their Jira software with Confluence for streamlined project management. Integrating applications with Confluence can help users centralize and simplify project planning. [Enterprise-Grade] SecurityUse the popular Atlassian tool and feel comfortable uploading your files and personal information to the public. Confluence features [enterprise-grade] security across entire organizations.

Atlassian Confluence [is] best suit[ed] for teams that already use some collaboration tools and requires shared working space that can track changes done by team members but still need more advanced collaboration space. Or for those teams which already use some of Atlassian products and requirers ease of integration.

Atlassian Confluence is well suited for any team that needs a tool to store and share information between people. There are also different privilege options that can be configured to maintain privacy or make sure some people can't edit a specific page or Confluence space.

Confluence is well suited to share knowledge on specific processes for new hires and for colleagues within the same department. It may not be suitable for interdepartmental information sharing since it can be overwhelming for those unfamiliar with certain applications. It's more suited for those with basic prior knowledge of most things.

Confluence has been a very handy tool for organizing and adding new content to the knowledge base of my team. It works fantastic for an organization that has adopted and matured the SCRUM methodology. Creating pages to inform new employees about what they need to know is what we have done great. Again the tool can work for start-ups but I believe it's stronger for larger companies.

[Atlassian] Confluence is very well suited for documentation surrounding issues or items within other Atlassian products as well as overall internal product documentation. It is not suited for documentation that is intended for an external audience or even internal people who are not member of the workspace or project since the documents would have to be downloaded and delivered through some other means.

While Confluence may not be perfect, it has long been the gold standard for enterprise wiki software. Its enterprise security model, its support for a wide array of content plug-ins, and its relative ease of use make it a winner for any technical organization. Nothing beats the model of using a wiki to connect and manage your content. And Confluence does a great job of supporting this mission-critical job for most modern organizations.

If you're looking for a wiki solution that is either internal or shared with trusted parties, Confluence is well designed as an enterprise-level product for that project. It shines best as a company wiki and document collaboration tool - allowing multiple users to edit a page in real-time at the same time (similar to Google Docs). Permissions can be set at the page level or space level to further enhance a user's ability to find content relevant to them.

Ideal for

• DevOps documentation
• Project management documentation
• Meeting minutes allowing anyone access
• Shared agendas for meeting
• Comment and markup of resources

[Atlassian Confluence] is a great place to store resources, documentation and share departmental content and knowledge easily.

I think [Atlassian] Confluence is an amazing option for larger companies however for a smaller team of less than 20 it might not be the best choice. It definitely helps our team stay connected while working remotely and we're able to stay on top of projects with ease.

Atlassian confluence is very well suited with mid and large organisations where there can be many teams scattered over world and every team requires same set of documents. So with help of confluence it can be easily achieved.
I will not recommended confluence for those organisations who do not have any heavy documentations to share or small team as it can be solved with mails also.

If you're looking to build a tightly integrated suite of documentation, code management, and task management, [Atlassian] Confluence will do a great job and serving the documentation piece of the puzzle. Through short code/actions, you can easily link in-work tickets and on the Jira side of things, you can easily point to documentation to help finish a task. We've done this on a couple of large projects with success. For a general Wiki, it may be a little bit too much infrastructure, and the system may cause you to create too many documents which leads to an organizational hassle.

When you need fast updates and a one stop area to glance at priorities and new stuff on a project, Atlassian Confluence is a great tool. It is fast and easy to consult and provides many features that are helpful, such as the use of quick templates. Might be more user-friendly and intuitive.

Confluence makes an excellent WIKI for internal usage and is especially useful for disseminating SOPs or position specific knowledge bases. In our usage we operate multiple call centers in addition to our dev/marketing focus. Confluence lets supervisors and management build knowledge repositories that is position specific and restrict access based on permissions. For our IT team, Confluence is a useful/easy way to create knowledge dumps, upload and manage technical documents, and even store things like backup decryption keys etc. etc.

Atlassian Confluence is primarily suited for medium to large organizations where departments are replicated across geographies. This makes it difficult and imperative at the same time for teams on one geography to know what work is being done by the teams in other geographies. This avoids doing the same work again and enables collaboration when multiple teams are facing the same problem.

With all its limitations, I would recommend using Confluence to pretty much every organisation that requires a tool for advanced documentation control. By default, it is a software for team collaboration, but it can in fact do way more than just that. With just a little extra effort, you can implement integration with your existing Jira instance, implement documents templates, share and collaborate with your colleagues when creating complex documentation pages.

[Atlassian] Confluence is well suited to any team. It is miles easier to configure, build content, and consume content than primary competitors such as SharePoint.

[Atlassian] Confluence makes it much easier to have fancy layouts and consistent documentation through excellent "macros" and templates. The overall system is so intuitive and easy to use, that there is little room to rationally spend time assessing any other solution.

Confluence would be less appropriate for a team that does not require long lived documentation or memorialization of decisions/projects. It would also not make sense for a team that wishes to keep information locked up and away from others, as the tool is more focused on making it easy to share information and be transparent about work and ideas.

It's an excellent tool

Documenting meeting notes and action items to take away from the meeting. Assigning who is accountable to each action item and sharing those meeting notes with the team is very easy.

After several months of use, if you have not well ordered your meeting notes section and titled the page clearly, it will be a real pain to go back and try to find the details of those meeting notes. Searching in Atlassian Confluence if all you have is a rough idea on the page name or general section and that section contains a few hundred pages....not so nice.

Atlassian Confluence is well suited for teams that are cross-functional, lean, and autonomous that need quick access to a lot of material that might not necessarily live within their specific business unit. If your organization is ran in silos with very clear ownership of materials and documents then this might not be as useful of a tool.

Atlassian Confluence is well suited in a scenario where a company aims to build sufficient workspaces and bring collaboration among the staff in order to double their productivity. The platform will organize and streamline the way you work and bring technology into the way you work thus enhancing your workflow and productivity.