Confluence Reviews & Product Details

Having all of our documentation all in one central location really helps the team function more efficiently. We're not duplicating work anymore, and can get to important things whenever we need.

Some of the editing tools are lacking. It doesn't take formatting well from a Word document. It makes putting in some older documentation we have kind of a pain.

We had no repository for institutional knowledge. Now that we do we can all get the information we need, and stop duplicating work. We also can set soft procedures by documenting them in Confluence. Now everyone has one place to look for how to do things.

The portal built and the searching in the confluence is awesome. The ease of sharing the page on confluence is really good.

Nothing as such till now i have disliked about it. But yeah can definetely see on integrating with other tools as well

Mainly information sharing across the team members have been very easy. documenting Standard Ops doc

It's significantly easier to use than Sharepoint. The AD permissions are easier to manage than a non-AD integrated platform. Space management and user management are easy and granular. Having used Sharepoint in the past, and having to have tried to be the admin without training was nearly impossible. With Confluence, it's easy to migrate from user to Admin then release Admin when you're done with it, preventing you from accidentally deleting or moving something.

Lack of HTML5 support is the biggest. Sometimes the documents don't display properly inside the product, but download fine. Excel editing is nearly impossible inside Confluence, but word documents seem to be fine.

Knowledge sharing; document sharing; forms and how-to repository. External sharing with non-domain users through an LDAP portal for sales partners and international non-domain users.

We can add all details about the a features coming out and etc.

Little bit complicated, needs some time to get use it.

We are building apps, so we are using confluence to describe features and etc.

Confluence is amazingly customizable and the integration with JIRA and HipChat is an amazing plus. For our team (10 people) the price point is unbeatable.

The interface leaves a little to be desired for non-technical users (some of our less tech savvy staff struggled with navigating and finding their way around) I also feel that the JIRA integration could offer a little more (though perhaps that's more of a check against JIRA - I don't know).

How-tos, Knowledge Base, General Documentation

I can store and share project documentation in one place and it is easy to read

At first it was hard to understand the flow

Managing a progect documentation. Every member of the team has access to it

The tool is easy to use and manage. I started using Confluence recently, and I had "fear of new software". Learning new tool especially if it is not related to career directly is last thing I need. I would rather spend my time where it is worth it. But confluence was easy to use and navigate. I do not remember going through formal training process, which is achievement in its self. We call it wiki internally, because that is what it really is.

I wish it had better flow chart diagrams, something like Visio has. Adding Visio extension would be nice.

We use it wiki to store all internal documents, process flows, new hiring, best practices, etc. We are using Jira and BitBucket too. So it is nice to have all those integrated.

Page editing is straightforward and simple to do, allowing you to create efficient and professional looking resource pages. Resources can be structured in a way that makes them easy to find using sidebars and the product is reliable and consistent in its performance.

It can feel cumbersome at times when you need to do more regular updates, and other more agile products based around activity feeds may be more suited to the task of sharing the sort of day to day updates a department might want to do.

Knowledge base storage, daily updates, inter department communication

The ability to customize and use the space as you need it.

It isn't the prettiest thing it the world.

Providing our company and organization with a one stop shop for everything they need, and a space they can customize.

The best thing about Confluence is it's ease of use and scalability.

One of the few dislikes is the text editor. It has a lot of room for improvement but gets the job done at a "basic" level.

We have a lot of client based documentation we build and there's always issues with what software is used, updated docs, doc transferring and storage. An online solution is really the best way for a company to house documentation on processes, general info, specifications etc.

In my opinion, Concluence is a really easy to use platform that helps me communicate and collaborate efficiently. It has great support, a wide variety of integration with other platforms and one of my favorite features is the ability to see the history of changes on each worksheet, this means that the user is able to see who did the last updates on what the team is working on.

The design and layout of Confluence looks a bit outdates and simplistic. It lacks a more modern visual and even though that is not a major problem, it is something to keep in mind. I also dislike Confluence's pricing system, I find it a little too expensive and it can become a risky investiment for smaller companies.

I was having a hard time organizing all my documents and spreadsheets with my employees and Confluence made it much easier. Also, the search feature really makes it easier to look up older documents.

Very low barrier to entry - easy to setup, simple to add documents or pages - great tagging. It's also a great tool to notify colleagues of new articles - simply use @ and type in their username - boom they're notified. Want to add a word document? Simply drag and drop the item into the web page.

Integration with confluence is pretty easy with their API, however integration with certain things (Sharepoint) for example requires purchasing an app. It's unfortunate that some of these items need to be purchased in addition to the package in general.

We needed a KB that was accessible to our teams and easy to add/edit. If the item was hard to use, adoption would not work. Confluence has solved this problem. We have well documented business processes that are updated on a fairly regular basis. When a new employee comes onboard they can reference confluence and get up to speed quickly. It's a very efficient tool.

Like: - how flexible the tool is in terms of ways to display information and hierarchy building. - its interactivity - comments can be used for both text and lots of other types of content. - color-coding and pre-determined formatting on a page - saves you time.

Dislike: - sometimes when pasting a table or a chart plug in into the document, it can get funky and look a bit off, so you'll spend time correcting it.

- process documentation - communication tool - project management tool

I found out that Confluence's integration with other platforms such as Hipchat helps a lot when you are working in a project because most of the time you will need to transfer files from one platform to another, so this integration beween them is really useful. Also the wide range of different templates that you can work with is an excellent feature.

Confluence can get quite expensive when you have a whole team using it. I also dislike it's layout and design, I find it confusing and it can take quite a while before you really understand how to navigate through the software.

Confluence helped me develop a project with a small-sized team that aimed to organize in a more eficient way our company's financial balance.

Confluence is a great place for EVERYTHING "Insert Company Name Here". This is YOUR company page to collaborate and work together on projects. If I ever have any questions on How-To's or company procedure, I can do a search on Confluence and find what i need. A great way to create project one-pagers. Great sub layering for different departments. Confluence can scale with your business really well.

The design and user experience is a bit choppy, however most wiki type sites tend to be. This isn't a deal breaker, would love to see it look a little nicer design wise.

Project communication with multiple stakeholders. This is the standard place to find information on any project or subject being worked on. I've realized it's very important to keep consistent your collaboration between teammates. Medium of communication is huge.