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Confluence

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

237 Reviews Write a Review

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 Project Management - Enterprise category

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2026 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2026

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2026

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

10 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

8 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

5 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2022

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.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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.

+94 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?

1% Negative

3% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Collaboration

Document Management

Resource Management

Planning and Scheduling

Workflow Management

Reporting

Time & Expense Tracking

Hierarchical Task Management

Dependency and Milestone Tracking

Budget Management

Mobile Access

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

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Confluence Reviews

Sanil J.

Role: Operations
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2023

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Easy to understand and documents

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We can tag a person from the document.

What do you dislike most about this product?

a little confusing.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

All works fine for me and i feel it is a complete package.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Harry M.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Outstanding Project Management Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Compared to its competition the tool shines in enhancing how the project management and document sharing happens. Its an easy to use fro all the ends. With the tool you are able to know the status of a project in the background.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ease of use and integration. The tool is also easy to customize.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Every feature of the tool just works fine.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommend the tool to any organization that carries project and document management.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Ease to maintain all documents in Hierarchy Form

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

How We Deliver

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Awards & Recognition

2026 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

Confluence Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 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

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Document Management Includes features such as check-in/check-out and versioning controls on documents and artifacts.

Resource Management Includes resource allocation, expense tracking, and resource planning.

Planning and Scheduling Includes milestones, tasks and resource assignments (can also include WBS and CPM).

Workflow Management Includes ability to support flexible and comprehensive workflow-based capabilities.

Reporting Straightforward data storage with ability to create reports easily. Able to easily modify and build dashboards for real-time updates on KPI's and timelines.

Time & Expense Tracking Ability to track time for planning and estimating

Hierarchical Task Management Ability to create both templates and unique projects and support tasks that can be divided into sub-tasks and delegated

Dependency and Milestone Tracking Ability to define project development stages and task dependencies while setting milestones to mark specific points in a project

Budget Management Includes financial planning, cost management, and payroll budgeting.

Mobile Access The solution can be easily accessed by employees through a dedicated native application or HTML5 access.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sanil J.

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Harry M.

Outstanding Project Management Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ease to maintain all documents in Hierarchy Form

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Collaboration

Document Management

Resource Management

Planning and Scheduling

Workflow Management

Reporting

Time & Expense Tracking

Hierarchical Task Management

Dependency and Milestone Tracking

Budget Management

Mobile Access

Vendor Capability Ratings

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support