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Complex project workhorse
January 16, 2018

Complex project workhorse

Daniel Blazquez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Atlassian Confluence

At my current company different teams have some freedom to choose organizational tools as they see fit. I have used Confluence for the most part of the year, as part of a new product development engagement in the software engineering department of one of our consumer brands. In this particular project it is used as an agile communication and collaborative documentation tool.
  • Larger teams working in complex projects
  • Cross functional communication with multiple departments
  • General usability
  • Smaller projects might suffer from a large overhead due to the particularities of the tool
  • It was not easy for me to liberate the data (export it to my computer)
We mostly used Alfresco as a central content repository system (write once, read many) versus Confluence for team collaboration tool (write many, read many). Whereas Alfresco is simpler to use and admin, it lacks the powerful team syncing features that make Confluence strong
Based on what I have seen, large teams (10+ people) working on complex projects (100s of requirements) with many types of "media" files (renders, engineering schemes, drawings, etc) will benefit the most from Confluence. I was impressed by the powerful tools to manipulate "non-text" files, and to adapt the content to different screens and devices. On the other hand, smaller projects will experience a significant "tool overhead" due to the (relative) complexity of the tool. A significant factor will be how handy are the team admins, as they might become bottlenecks to run the sites (configure flows, create sub-sites, etc).

Confluence Feature Ratings

Project Management
8.2
Task Management
5
Scheduling
5
Workflow Automation
10
Mobile Access
10
Search
9
Visual planning tools
10
Communication
8.4
Chat
7
Notifications
10
Discussions
9
Surveys
6
Internal knowledgebase
10
Integrates with GoToMeeting
Not Rated
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
Not Rated
Integrates with Outlook
Not Rated
File Sharing & Management
9.8
Versioning
Not Rated
Video files
10
Audio files
10
Document collaboration
10
Access control
9
Advanced security features
Not Rated
Integrates with Google Drive
Not Rated
Device sync
10