Confluence Reviews

It's a great collaboration software if you have multiple team members working at their own pace.

If you are looking for a scalable solution for confidential notes, knowledge, or for a place to throw a general memo, then Confluence is a great system.
This system carries quite a cost to it, so if you aren't willing to fork out the funding or if you don't have a large enough user base (I'd recommend at least 500 active users), then there are alternative solutions that are rather effective such as Sharepoint or a Gsuite equivalent.

Atlassian
Confluence is the best project management software for each and every type of
organization regardless of their size and working resources. Moreover, this
product is beneficial enough to make my work history at a safe place for longer
period of time. I would definitely recommend it to others to take benefit out of it.

We find it can be a good "knowledge base" for projects and ideas. You can load up process ideas and finalised processes easily, documents, tables for marking off progress. I personally find the design and styling uninspiring and I think that is why usage in the team is lower than I would like.

Atlassian Confluence is the best for collaborative user story writing. It gets linked to the JIRA issues so we can keep the tickets as simple as possible and add all the details in Atlassian Confluence.

Atlassian Confluence is well suited for managing a knowledge base for an organization. It is easy to search for information that one may need about a particular project or subject. It is, however, more of a wiki and less of a document management platform, so if there is a need to manage heavy documents, then this may not suit that need.

Large companies would do well with Confluence. Small companies who don't need broad communication would be wasting money. It's hard to get important info easily accessed with larger companies, and Confluence allows that information to be readily available to anyone who needs it, regardless of position.

Very good support for all main scenarios such as team collaboration on documents, organization of work and tracking the progress. It provides a clean, nice view of the actual version of documents of any kind, including graphics, schemes, and diagrams, etc. Supports mobile devices with a responsive interface, allowing us to keep in touch with other content creators on the go.

The pre-designed templates are great to get started. From there you may modify it to suit your needs.
Uploads from OneNote or PDFs are not an option.

Great for DevOPS and CloudOPS software development as a repository for code revisions, trouble tickets, collaboration and beta version testing.

If you have an organization that needs to document security policies, it’s a great file repository for all staff to access. The access can be limited as well.

It's great for engineering and software teams who need quick access to software notes and details. It is even better if you use other Atlassian products as the idea integration is through other tools by Atlassian.

Atlassian Confluence is extremely well suited for capturing knowledge and sharing it with your organization. Whether that takes the form of blog posts, technical documentation, or project status reports, Confluence can handle it all. Anytime that written documentation with detail would be valuable to your organization, Atlassian Confluence is THE tool to use.

The only time I'd say that it is less suited for use is as a substitute for a face-to-face conversation. Sometimes people will use Atlassian Confluence as a communications vehicle when an in-person dialog would be much more expedient. Of course, you could always capture the output of that conversation as a Confluence page!

Confluence is very good in situations where you need to share with the customer what are your instructions and procedures to resolve a specific problem. When asked, you only need to send him the knowledge-base article as a proof of work. We also use it to share this kind of information with the overseas team, as we are in a country and some of our coworkers live in another country far away.

Great for creating company documentation and/or manuals. Being able to create spaces makes organizing your wiki easier. It is better than many free or cheap/open-source alternatives where you would have to do a lot more work to create something similar. Having add-ons for further features is excellent.

The Service Desk utilizes the Confluence sections where access has been granted for customer visibility so that when they are looking to submit a ticket, it gives recommended solutions prior to submitting the ticket. Also, from the agent side on the Service Desk, they will be giving a few possible solution documents to the ticket in question. We have not built out our documentation that much, but I can see this being EXTREMELY helpful for troubleshooting tickets.

Atlassian Confluence is great as a central place to take and store meeting notes. It's also very nice because multiple people can edit the same page at the same time. It is also a fantastic place to store project status information to make it easily accessible to many people. We find that because Confluence is so easy to use that our employees are much better at creating documentation and keeping it up to date.

Organizations that are fast-growing and/or geographically dispersed would benefit from Atlassian Confluence. Where things move quickly, it's helpful to have all processes and systems documented so new hires and other teams do not have to rely on individual people passing the information along. They can find everything they need in Confluence.

Great for corporate-wide knowledge management.

Confluence works well in a system where a lot of people are collaborating. It keeps everything organized and is located in one easy to access location. It is ideal for working on projects together. Especially projects that require information sharing. Compared to email communication, Confluence holds the information from all users. This is compared to using traditional file folders and email, whereby there are access issues and not all information is shared or searchable.

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.

If you want to write something down-- it may be design flow, project document or something else-- Atlassian Confluence is just the best option to use. It has lots of plugins available like Gliffy and Codeblock, which makes your doc more clean. Outside this scenario, I think it is not well-suited. One more thing-- it is too costly to use it on your own.

If you are looking for a CMS-style, text to web document system, and you don't have access to Google, then Confluence is a viable option. Its tight integration to JIRA makes it more useful than Google in our scenario, although I often wonder if we would do ourselves a favor and write some Google Scripts to tighten that end of the integration and drop Confluence.

We use Atlassian Confluence to organize our software development and IS teams. We use it for meeting agendas, documenting software releases, documenting server updates, policies, procedures. We don't, however, use it for documenting software development requirements or for documenting QA test cases. Confluence feels like it could go the extra steps and provide a good place for documenting the actual creation of software, but we still end up going to other vendors for those items.

If you ever need a site where you can share knowledge and maintain documentation, this is one of the best options. You might have heard of SharePoint, which is similar in a lot of ways. Confluence is very modern and flexible. This is great if you have a team of developers who need to document their process and use of the software or provide documentation to agents.