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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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Awards & Recognition

Confluence won the following awards in the Document Management category

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Confluence Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

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Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 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?

2% Negative
6% Neutral
92% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate
  • Effective Service

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Document Hosting

89

Document Sharing

86

Security and Access Control

85

Access Tracking

84

Version Control

83

Searchability

83

Editor Functions

83

Metrics and Reporting

83

Publication Workflow

83

Indexing and Classification

81

Check Out Check in

81

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

86

Ease of Implementation

85

Business Value Created

84

Breadth of Features

83

Ease of Customization

83

Ease of IT Administration

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

81

Availability and Quality of Training

81

Ease of Data Integration

81

Usability and Intuitiveness

80

Vendor Support

79

Confluence Reviews

Sunny H.

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

Submitted Nov 2021

Best tool for sharing information across the team

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

1. Ability to create & share information across the team. 2. Helps to organise similar design documents or information together.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Provides a platform to communicate on the share information to all the team members. The stakeholders can monitor & be notified of all the changes being made on the confluence pages.

What do you dislike most about this product?

1. Performance issues with Chrome or similar browser clients. 2. Constant email notifications about changes can be distracting; the option to mute them should be available

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

1. With Confluence, we are making release notes for each production release. 2. Development teams discuss product designs with the stakeholders using Confluence.

Saqib A.

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

Submitted Nov 2021

Excellent Product

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Confluence has a breadth of excellent features that can be used for document hosting and sharing as well as creating content directly within the application.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ability to create content directly within the application and share it with others.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The fact that anyone can edit the content (unless strict access control has been implemented), this makes version control difficult to manage.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is an excellent application to host, share as well as create content for the organisation.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Fair

Cons

  • Security Frustrates
  • Under Delivered
  • Leverages Incumbent Status

Myra H.

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

Submitted Oct 2021

Confluence is great for document management

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Confluence has an excellent search feature. It also allows for very organized structure of documents, along with version history and access control features.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Confluence has excellent search to find any document accurately.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I dislike that Confluence does not have the best integration with other products such as Microsoft Teams.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would highly recommend Confluence for documentation of any kind. It is very versatile and easy to use.

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