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Confluence

8.8 /10

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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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Confluence Ratings

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87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 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?

3% Negative

6% Neutral

91% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Efficient Service

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Document Hosting

Document Sharing

Security and Access Control

Access Tracking

Editor Functions

Version Control

Publication Workflow

Searchability

Metrics and Reporting

Check Out Check in

Indexing and Classification

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

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Confluence Reviews

Tony F.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Finance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2024

best tool for organizing documents

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

great user interface intuitive easy to use

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It helps me organize all my sales materials and training

What do you dislike most about this product?

nothing, it works just as needed

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

this has been a daily use for sales traing

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Efficient Service
Effective Service
Inspires Innovation

Ahikam K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2024

One easily accessible source of knowledge

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Confluence simplifies quick browsing of important pages and efficient sorting of information. It excels at creating a clear path for knowledge sharing between team members. I love the fact that it fosters collaboration, creates versatile tracking methods, and always has open channels for feedback, which helps manage our knowledge base and create and document reports.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best thing about Confluence is the card system, where any member can create a card with tasks and send it to members to ensure it is updated and documented as required. I love the tagging and commenting features, which enhance our understanding of the content within each card. I also like the ease of creating forms and reports, and the ease of sharing them and documenting comments on them.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There are no downsides to Confluence, it's easy to learn and surprisingly useful.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend Confluence as it greatly improves the knowledge base and delivers impressive results to any team that takes advantage of its features as required.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Gaurav P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2024

Confluence - A place for Knowledge sharing

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Document management , sharing is awesome

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Define, write a knowledge base gives so many options.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing as such

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Definitely a yes ..

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Confluence Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Confluence?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Document Hosting Centralized hosting of electronic documents, allowing the ability for contributors to upload to a secure area.

Document Sharing Document sharing is the ability to share a document with those who have not been granted explicit access

Security and Access Control Securing of electronic documents from unauthorized access and the ability to assign access to specific users or user groups.

Access Tracking The tracking of document access, including who had opened it or downloaded it.

Editor Functions Features to allow designated editors to have the ability to review a document, make notes, corrections, and insert markups for re-editing by the author(s).

Version Control Tracking of document versions with each iteration of document changes.

Publication Workflow Workflow capability that routes documents across defined roles in the publication process, either for review, editing, publication, etc.

Searchability DMSes generally allow for the ability to conduct searches on document content.

Metrics and Reporting This feature enables the DMS administrator to produce reports on the DMS, such as document volumes, document access, publication trends, etc.

Check Out Check in Similar to checking out or signing out a book from the library, this option enables a similar function for designated documents.

Indexing and Classification Where the DMS will search the contents of all documents, index search results and organize them based on the organization’s taxonomy

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Confluence Reviews

Tony F.

best tool for organizing documents

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ahikam K.

One easily accessible source of knowledge

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Gaurav P.

Confluence - A place for Knowledge sharing

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Document Hosting

Document Sharing

Security and Access Control

Access Tracking

Editor Functions

Version Control

Publication Workflow

Searchability

Metrics and Reporting

Check Out Check in

Indexing and Classification

Vendor Capability Ratings

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support