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What is Confluence?

Confluence is a collaboration and knowledge management platform. It is often used by teams to create, organize, and share content within organizations in a seamless and centralized way. Confluence offers tools such as knowledge base creation, document collaboration, as well as task management tools that allow teams to work together more efficiently. It also provides a central hub where users can share and collaborate with ease.

Company Atlassian
Year founded 2002
Company size 5001-10,000 employees
Headquarters Sydney, NSW
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Last updated: October 18, 2024
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3,708 Confluence Reviews
4.1 out of 5
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Mar 17, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Milind N. avatar
Milind N.
Business Analyst
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"Integration of Confluence to Jira is a must have to power Project management with documentation"
What do you like best about Confluence?

It allows an intuitive way to organize pages. The concept of having public and private spaces helps in managing content while helping to organize thoughts of individual.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

The test editor is patchy and needs more improvement. It's a little difficult to format the spaces.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps capturing and organizing the requirements given by the client. These requirements are further converted into issues in Jira. The integration helps view and access the knowledge in both the applications through internal links.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 08, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
NK
Nuthigattu K.
Senior Executive
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"Best platform for project management"
What do you like best about Confluence?

We manage various admission cum learning programs, and for the same, we use confluence for program and project management purposes. We can create multiple dashboards with project timelines, course of actions, dependencies, required stakeholders etc. It helps us to simply each project and achieve the goals. We can share the same over the intranet and update the dashboards in real time.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

The clustering of tasks is sometimes confusing over confluence. Even on the same project page, the dashboard is overloaded with various tasks simultaneously, and for a newbie, it takes time to understand and navigate. The Ui can be more interactive and self-explaining.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Confluence as a collaborative platform to share ethe data of various projects among the team. We use it as a knowledge bas e to exchange and share information. We can update, modify, and add new details to project pages. Keep track of all the activities and confluence is a single point place to all the project-related tasks.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Feb 22, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Lalit K. avatar
Lalit K.
Software Development Engineer
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"Best tool for documentation"
What do you like best about Confluence?

The easy interface enables you to create documents with lots of plugins quickly. Also allows reviewing and managing the history of the documentation as well. You can even create a watchers list to update the users automatically about the changes

What do you dislike about Confluence?

It should allow the folding and unfolding of code snippets as well. That could make the page with lots of code look simpler and more readable. Also, It should be able to import MS Word documents directly

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps maintain documentation, HLDs, and LLDs and also helps attach JIRAs and track them in a single place. Hence easing the process of SDLC quite a lot. It is an excellent tool for Software development

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Feb 18, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Ankush A. avatar
Ankush A.
Program Manager
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"Great tool for collaboration, notes and documentation"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Has a simple and intuitive user interface. Multiple users can work on the same document simultaneously. Wide range of customizable templates for different types of documents. Easily integrates with other Atlassian products as well as third-party tools. Allows to create, store, and organize documents in a centralized location. Allows easy customization, HTML edits. macros.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Might take time to familiarize, for the first time users. Doesn't allow complex workflows. Can have more advanced designing options. I especially dislike its 'Table-formatting'. Access-control and management could be easier and more granular.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Centralised Collaboration, document repository, knowledge management and sharing, can even serve as a website.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 13, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
SR
Sushree R.
Founder
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"Wonderful app for documenting"
What do you like best about Confluence?

We are best using confluence for adding documentation etc

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Actually, I like everything about this product

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Team collaboration, connecting with Jira tickets on the fly

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 09, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Shweta B. avatar
Shweta B.
Program Manager
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"Powerful Confluence!"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Confluence helps to keep documents for multiple topics at one location. Confluence makes data entry simple and Easy. Default templates are really very good.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Pages are increasing with time which makes it challenging to manage. Changes are not reflected in real-time.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Confluence is very helpful for sharing and organizing new content.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 20, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Umesh M.
Deputy Manager
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"Stories and Dashboards are easy on Confluence"
What do you like best about Confluence?

I use confluence for my Business story updates and dashboards. The user interface or UI is the thing I like the most on confluence, We can create business stories and dashboards that all stakeholders can access without hassle. The navigation, story identification, and search features are all in sync and give a pleasant user experience.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Identification of mistakes and errors is sometimes difficult in confluence as the system doesn't pop up or highlight the errors. Even the fonts and formats are sometimes hard to rectify and fix.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Confluence is a site go for all business-related topics storage. Once can easily navigate to confluence and search the project name or details to get the full overview of the same. We get entire updates, cases, stories associated with the projects, Simple to use and business effective,

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Dec 25, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
CJ
Charles J.
Senior Web Manager
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"Favorite tool for writing and organizing documentation"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Long ago, I began using a Wiki to record interesting, novel, and useful approaches to solving problems. I decided I had spent too much time "re-finding" a solution that I had discovered months ago and needed again today. I built a wiki, and promised myself that I'd take just five minutes and record a few notes each time I found a novel or useful technique. Over the years, that simple discipline has saved me DAYS of time. That old Perl-based wiki is long gone. But the information lives on in Confluence. It is VERY simple to create pages, hierarchies, tag those pages, and share them. My most-used feature, though, is search. If I need to find something I wrote months (or years) ago, I need only to type a vague recollection of that information, and Confluence search takes me there.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Confluence lacks a spelling checker. Instead, it relies on browser-based spelling checkers, which are not always up to the task.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

My most-used feature, though, is search. If I need to find something I wrote months (or years) ago, I need only to type a vague recollection of that information, and Confluence search takes me there.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 15, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
MO
Md O.
Senior Level
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"Confluence Review"
What do you like best about Confluence?

The ability of the many teams working on our projects to construct runbooks and keep project-specific documentation is confluence's best feature. This is ideal because it allows us to easily access the confluence page for our project if we run into a problem and obtain the necessary information.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

We are unable to access the page continuously. For instance, if one user addresses access-related difficulties, other users may suddenly lose access. This isn't very pleasant because we have to open a ticket to reaccess the page.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Because we are working on a support project and need runbooks and documentation to refer to when resolving new issues, using confluence has many advantages. When we discover a new ticket, we can quickly navigate to the confluence website, conduct a subject search, and find the necessary page with all the details. The installation instructions for the numerous tools we use daily can also be stored.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 01, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Alexandru Cristian I. avatar
Alexandru Cristian I.
Quality Assurance Engineer
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"Confluence is the place for documentation"
What do you like best about Confluence?

I like the most the: • rich text options • all the customisations that can be added • the fact that it's collaborative • the notifications when someone edits a page created by you

What do you dislike about Confluence?

I don't have any dislikes in regards with the Confluence application.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Confluence helps documenting all sorts of documents in depth, having integrations with Jira of course, and with many other softwares. Bottom line, helps teams document their efforts / projects.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 29, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Pramodh K. avatar
Pramodh K.
Dev Sec Ops Consultant
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"Knowledge Base for your Teams"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Confluence in an Organization can be used for various use cases such as Knowledge Base to share the documentation with team members, capture the meeting minutes of important calls, Sprint retrospectives, BRD, Project requirements, etc. Along with default templates that come with Confluence, we can also build our own templates and tweak them based on our requirements. Analytics & Team calendars are good to have features. Integrates well with Jira.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

The features such as building our own templates have limitations w.r.to user macros which can be implemented in the cloud version. Macros functionality can be improved by keeping Integrations with other products as a factor apart from Atlassian applications.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knowledge base and documentation sharing have been the use case and are solving the problem of team members never knowing any concepts that are shared in Confluence. Sometimes meetings can be skipped since MOM would be captured and action items would also be registered.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 24, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
FK
Fotios (Fotis) K.
Customer Support Team Lead
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"Confluence is awesome"
What do you like best about Confluence?

What I like the most about Confluence is the simplicity.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

If your database has many many articles you might experience slow website response times.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows my company to have a huge database and knowledge center.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 23, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
JD
Jay D.
Engineering Manager
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"Super versatile, simple to use"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Quick and effective collaboration is key in today's workplaces - especially if you have a number of remote team members as we do. I have used Confluence on several teams and it quickly becomes our go-to medium for documenting results, findings, projections, take-aways. I love that it is a complete package that doesn't require a number of add-ons to really do what you want (looking at you, Jira).

What do you dislike about Confluence?

I would love to see them expand the charting abilities of Confluence. Enable teams to easily create more useful dashboards and pull in more data from more tools.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Primarily, this helps us to create and maintain ideas and team knowledge. Too many times, discussions create great results but they are too quickly forgotten. We use Confluence to persist the most relevant info without spending a lot of time doing it.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 18, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
MK
Michal K.
Principal Business Intelligence Consultant
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"Very useful tool for any internal documentation"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Very easy to use, with example templates and keyboard shortcuts. The ability to export to PDF or Word is also a plus. Smart elements such as a children pages based index is really helpful when building a multi-layered playbook.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

The biggest drawback currently is the lack of ability to open links in a new window or control the iframe behavior, but these are small issues in general comparing to all benefits of the platform.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Documentation management in an engaging way creates good-looking documents that are interactive and easy to edit by the whole team. The templates are helping in starting the new documents as the typical structure is already created for you.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Nov 12, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Ayush M. avatar
Ayush M.
Performance Engineer(ic 2) Oracle Ebs
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" Confluence is Best Product For manging Your Important Notes and Discussion"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Confluence is the best product to manage your Daily discussion and keep your Important notes or projects, you are working on .it's very easy to make pages. Conversion is an intense cooperative proofreader as it enables you to make meeting notes, project plans, and item prerequisites, simultaneously as different clients are altering and see every one of the progressions on the double.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

I don't find anything flaw as such because it's designed perfectly. Reports are perfectly built tables organization all things are best. it has all the potential to replace MS_word And PowerPoint from the market

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Manging my Meeting Notes Keeping my project discussion things aligned and we can edit and add it any team according to project deliverables Its Ui is very lucrative when we present it in front of customers and easy to build

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 11, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
JR
Jonatan R.
Technical Support Lead
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"A great solution to manage all your documentation"
What do you like best about Confluence?

We love the interface, it's clean and intuitive, and we use it for creating workflows and international documentation for training purposes.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

I wish there were fonts to choose from; the default font is okay, but for short docs but for those large documents, you can get eyestrain after 30-40 minutes of reading

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us organize all of our documentation in one single place, and at easy reach, you can find exactly what you are looking for in seconds, saving precious time for our agents.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Nov 03, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
UM
Umesh M.
Product Consultant
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"Business documents and project management over Confluence"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Confluence is a great platform to create, store and share business-related functional, and technical documents. We can easily create projects, collaborate with people, and share files across people and teams. it gives a huge collection of projects where one can go and search easily and get an overview of it.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

One thing I dislike is the sublinks of documents and the poor connection of related objects/files. In order to go to a particular project or file, we need to go through a chain of links, which can lead to a lot of time and effort wastage, instead we can actually search and go by name or code of the specific file.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Confluence is like a local wiki for us at Moodys Internal file sharing arena. Everyone gets a clear update about the relevant projects in past, and ongoing one. We can access BRDs, and FRDs and understand the scope of the project without disturbing the people involved. Self-understanding of various functionalities over a platform is the best solution given by confluence.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 03, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
HK
Hassan K.
Member Experience Associate
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"Great Knowledge Base Organizer!"
What do you like best about Confluence?

I like that it's fast to load and doesn't consume much processing power or RAM! I can easily navigate, search, like or comment on the content available. We haven't tried other solutions because we have everything we need!

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Searching for particular information can be a bit hard on Confluence. Using a lot of keywords to finally get to what I wanted.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Confluence helps in organizing our knowledge base into an easy-to-reach single destination. I'd be lost without it, as I use it daily to give our customers the best experience possible.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Nov 02, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
KL
Kelvin L.
Senior Software Architect
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"Collaboration at its best!"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Collaboration is raised to the next level with Confluence. It's so easy to jointly make changes to documents without the need to send multiple copies of the document around. The sheer number of integration with other online tools to provide diagramming and productivity adds so much more value to Confluence.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

There is really no reason to use any other productivity tool once you have Confluence. So, no, I can't find anything I don't like with Confluence. This is a solid choice for any organization.

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

It really does a great job at solving the collaboration and history tracking problem. I don't need to worry about maintaining several copies of a single document, merging different changes together, etc.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Oct 20, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
JB
Jon B.
Senior Trusted Referee
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"Beautifully laid out software"
What do you like best about Confluence?

I love the ease of use and flow of information. Having multiple admins able to update information on the fly is pivotal to our use case.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

I have yet to encounter anything that I find to be negative

What problems is Confluence solving and how is that benefiting you?

Needing to get information out quickly, this was a no-brainer for us. We are daily updating our data, and it works flawlessly