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Confluence

Composite Score
9.3 /10
CX Score
9.5 /10

What is Confluence?

Confluence is your remote-friendly team workspace where knowledge and collaboration meet. Confluence turns conversations into action built for lasting knowledge so you never lose great ideas or context in a transient notification or chat. From marketing and sales to development and operations, Confluence has solutions for every type of team and project to get your team doing the real work right away.

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Awards & Recognition

Confluence won the following awards in the Task Management category

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Confluence Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

90 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:
97%
Negotiation and Contract:
95%
Conflict Resolution:
96%
Strategy & Innovation:
97%
Service Experience:
96%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Confluence?

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0% Negative
2% Neutral
98% Positive

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate

Feature Ratings

Average 88

Task Assignment

91

List Tasks

90

Due Dates

89

Add Notes

89

Task Status

88

Calendar View

88

Task Reporting

88

Add Attachments

88

Task Categorization

88

Notifications

87

Task Prioritization

87

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 88

Business Value Created

90

Quality of Features

90

Ease of Implementation

89

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

89

Breadth of Features

89

Ease of IT Administration

88

Usability and Intuitiveness

87

Ease of Customization

87

Ease of Data Integration

86

Availability and Quality of Training

86

Vendor Support

85

Confluence Reviews

Rohit S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2025

The ultimate solution for Knowledge !

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Real-time collaboration: This feature allows teams to brainstorm and co-author documents more efficiently Structured Organization and Searchability: Combined with powerful search and tagging features. Seamless integration with Jira: This tight integration helps developers and project managers easily link the documentation.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It's a centralized repository for our organization, which helps everyone from all the teams access the content easily, and our support team can easily help our customers by referring to the SOP's through Confluence. Also, it has a feature to add a comment on the article so that if anything in the article needs to be corrected, they can write down the comment and can discuss it as well in the comment box.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The interface can become more user-friendly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Anyone looking for a clean and intuitive knowledge center must consider them in their evaluation once.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

Chirag C.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Finance
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2025

Great tool for organizing, collaborating, managing

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

The ease of use of the product and high quality content as well as the integration capabilities

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Creating your own space to keep track of all the important documents categorized in well structured manner and the search capabilities across spaces

What do you dislike most about this product?

It gets stuck sometimes on a single space but recovers after a refresh

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go for it, its a great too to manage tasks, planning and organizing the project related aspects in a consolidated space and very good for collaboration

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service

Tawfeeq A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

Confluence:The Collaboration Powerhouse

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Confluence differentiates itself through deep integration with Atlassian tools like Jira and Bitbucket, ideal for technical teams managing projects tied to development workflows. It combines enterprise-grade security, scalability, and structured content organization (spaces, templates) with collaborative flexibility, offering dynamic macros, version control, and a robust marketplace for plugins. Unlike more generalized platforms (e.g., Notion, SharePoint), it excels as a centralized hub for technical documentation and knowledge management, balancing creativity with standardization for large organizations..

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Confluence is its seamless integration with tools like Jira, which bridges project management and documentation. It transforms static wikis into dynamic hubs by linking pages directly to tasks, sprints, or code repositories, ensuring alignment between technical work and knowledge sharing. This real-time connectivity eliminates silos, streamlines updates, and keeps teams in sync—making it indispensable for collaborative, fast-paced environments.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I havent faced any such inconvenience yet while using the confluence

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

First, align Confluence with your team’s workflow—it excels for technical documentation, project tracking, or internal wikis, especially if you use Jira or other Atlassian tools. Leverage its templates and spaces to organize content early, ensuring scalability. For large teams, prioritize governance (permissions, naming conventions) to avoid clutter. Explore the Atlassian Marketplace for niche integrations, and invest in training to maximize features like macros or version control. If security is critical, verify compliance needs upfront. Ultimately, treat it as a living knowledge hub, not just a document repository

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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