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Confluence Reviews: 4.1/5 — Solid Choice

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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.

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Year founded 2002
Company size 5001-10,000 employees
Headquarters Sydney, NSW
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3,708 Confluence Reviews
4.1 out of 5
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 04, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Team Collaboration "
What do you like best about Confluence?

We use it to have the same documentation on procedures all in one place. It’s really helpful for a comprehensive place to keep it all.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Sometimes I have to clear my cookies and log back in if I leave it open for too long.

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

We are creating consistency within our organization, which satisfies our customers better. I have realized that it’s so helpful to have documents in one comprehensive place for everyone to access.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 30, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Colaboracion facil y eficiente"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Utilizo las aplicaciones confluence habitualmente. Las aplicaciones son compatibles entre si y se pueden usar de forma simultanea

What do you dislike about Confluence?

El sitio web.las aplicaciones funcionan correctamente pero a veces el sitio web no se encuentra activo

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

Me permite una facil colaboracion con mis compañeros en aspectos como documentacion cuando trabajamos en la creacion de un nuevo proyecto. Las notificaciones por correo me parecen muy importantes ya que hace que el usuario tome conciencia de las situaciones que son importantes. Simplifica la rutina diaria u es util pars multitud de proyectos diferentes

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 29, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Confluence helps us keep information up to date"
What do you like best about Confluence?

we use confluence for landing pages for different customers. Rather than wait for the web design team to update pages, we control the content. We can update any time as needed. And, anyone on the team can make updates.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

I don't see a downside to this. We can add links, attach documents, insert graphics; we can basically use this platform to provide all of the onboarding information that customers need. I also don't know of a peer platform that offers this same functionality.

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

The main problem was updating landing pages. We had to send requests to web team, wait for them to review and them update. Instead, we can update our own content at our convenience. This allows us to keep the content updated, and allows us to quickly respond to customer feedback.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 21, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great product "
What do you like best about Confluence?

I like how easy it is to use, share, modify. Great integration with JIRA and other tools.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

No good revision control. Equations support is not present. Wish it would automatically allow LaTeX code.

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

Documentation, training, communication. Makes onboarding easier.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 20, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
SR
Simon R.
Founder
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"una gran herramienta para tener todo bien organizado"
What do you like best about Confluence?

lo que más me gusta es que se puede conectar a un monton mas de herramientas y que es muy comodo encontrar documentacion mas adelante

What do you dislike about Confluence?

lo que menos me gusta es que de vez en cuanto me desloguea y tengo que volver a introducir mi usuario y constraseña

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

lo utilizamos sobre todo para tener bien clasificada la documentacion

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 17, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
VM
Vivian M.
Founder
Share
"confluence review"
What do you like best about Confluence?

i like it very posting all the notes from all different meetings.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

the links posting is a little messy. it’s not clear on the priority on posting.

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

It has good for all the notes storing.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 14, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
DM
David M.
Founder
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"Confluence: A great documentary manager"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Confluence is a very good documentation management tool. What I like the most is having all the information gathered and the possibility of creating documentation trees to make it more related and more easily accessible. Also, since they made the integration with Jira, it is much more useful to be able to relate Jira's issues with the documentation that is believed appropriate in confluence

What do you dislike about Confluence?

What I consider worse is when it comes to making diagrams, it gives you the possibility, but it has many shortcomings and it takes a lot to leave it fairly well.

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

I have used it for almost all my work experience for project documentation. It helps a lot to relate the documentation and you get great benefits of time by avoiding a lot of time transmitting knowledge to the members of your team

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 10, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Confluence"
What do you like best about Confluence?

I like that it has helped my project management and collaboration to be more seamless so that we can keep all of our projects in one place and communicate in the same location

What do you dislike about Confluence?

I do not like that people who are coming from outside of my company to work on the project it is more difficult to share with them and keep them solely on that one channel for the project they are collaborating on

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

Easier to work together as a team and get our projects completed regardless of location of all of the team members

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 08, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Useful tool"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Easy to learn, well organized, good for storing a lot of content

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Not straightforward to grant access / share content with colleagues

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

Creating, storing, and sharing content with team members without using a publicly accessible space

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 03, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
RG
Russell G.
Director Of Plm Information Systems And Software Development
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"Confluence - we depend on it"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Integration with JIRA, where we manage our work. Easy-to-use place for central management of documents for policy, standards, process, projects, and work details.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Tables are clumsy - there is a plug-in we could license to make tables better, but should be part of core function.

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

Central management of documents for policy, standards, process, projects, and work details. Makes it possible for us to drive documentation as part of the process as stories are closed.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 01, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"We used Confluence to showcase our department's tasks/duties to other departments"
What do you like best about Confluence?

That we were able to design our own webpage or interactive website for end users to use.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

there could be better functions such as being able to make it more like a whiteboard to draw on etc.

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

Benefits would be able to connect with other departments, this allows us to interact with one another - greater communication

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
FK
Frank K.
Founder
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"Team Organization"
What do you like best about Confluence?

This software is flexible and allows us to create different schedules and notes for organizing every new project in the company. Also, its chat is great for communications between team members.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Maybe the price per members that can participate.

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

We solved problems like organizing meetings. New project with visitors or task that has to be done in a certain period of time.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"A great tool for team collaboration"
What do you like best about Confluence?

It's very easy to use for people who are familiar with Wikipedia. People can create, modify pages as well as the relationship between different pages. Very convenient for teams that want to have a shared documentation.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Every time there is an update on the certain pages (the pages that are related with you), I would receive an email notifying about it, which could be kind of annoying sometimes. But I believe there is some way to have the settings to get rid of these notifications.

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

Confluence is really a good tool for team collaboration. With Confluence, teams can create, modify shared documentations as they want. People from other teams or departments can also refer to these pages to gain knowledge that they want to know.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
EB
Eric B.
Founder
Share
"Data management linked with JIRA"
What do you like best about Confluence?

It works perfect as linking knownerrors and others with the ticketing tool JIRA.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Like other kind of data management tools it is complicate to update the information.

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

Linking the information between the incident management process and the complexity of the items inside.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
JF
Jordi F.
Jordi Ferreras
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"Confluence in IT"
What do you like best about Confluence?

We use this tool in our IT Technology department because is a great collaboration tool. We have divided the tool for departments and we create groups in order to give access to the employees to the section that they need to access for the information. We have a lot of manuals, videos, trainigs...Is the best Knowledge management Tool.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

You have a lot of information and you only have access in the section that you have permissions and if you need to access to a manual that you have the information, you need to request this permissions and you loose time in this action.

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

We have all the manuals and the information in a site that you can access where ever you are, you don't need to spend time in trainings and if you have a problem you can see the solution in confluence.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"great documentation product"
What do you like best about Confluence?

This product is great for documentation and sharing information.Also this product keeps a revision history so if you need to find an old version of the document you can.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

the product was a little confusing and took more training time then it should.

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

this product is great for sharing and downloading documents with ease. A key benefit of the product is eliminating the need to approach different people for documents

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
MP
Matthieu P.
Senior Software Engineer
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"Simple internal collaboration"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Very simple to share information internally from FAQ to Project schedule

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Nothing to complain about. simple enough to create and access information

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

Simple and efficient way to store information to be shared between teams

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great security features for important information"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Great security and complete customization

What do you dislike about Confluence?

When changing security accesses for new employees, a lot of steps to go through and some part is always missed.

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

It was a collective place to put all of our sensitive information where everyone could add to it or access it if needed.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"A very useful team collaboration tool where we can create file and share with peers"
What do you like best about Confluence?

The best thing that I like about the confluence is, it is very easy to use, no issue in navigation, multiple people can edit the file, creating the page is easy. I feel it is user friendly

What do you dislike about Confluence?

I feel that it should have more type of text fonts, table use is a bit tricky, often I get confused, and there could have been the better search option for file search. Apart from these I did not find any other issue with it.

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

It helped me manage my files, records, their versions and gave me the flexibility to modify the files whenever I want. overall satisfied with this product.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"the best website to store documentation"
What do you like best about Confluence?

it's simple, customizable, reliable and well done

What do you dislike about Confluence?

mostly nothing, everything is good and also the settings are well done

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

store the documentation

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Collaborative Space"
What do you like best about Confluence?

The UI is were easy to navigate and the platform itself It is very easy to use and administer .

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Users get bombarded by emails when a page is updated. Any small change on a page triggers the email alert.

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

We utilize confluence as a collaborative store for all information in the company. It is a great resource for actively sharing and updating informational stores

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Nice comprehensive collaboration tool"
What do you like best about Confluence?

I like the freedom it gives the users to share information with the rest of the team

What do you dislike about Confluence?

I dislike how difficult it can be to write and properly format everything.

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

We use Confluence as a team collaboration tool and a wiki for processes. It's also used extensively for training.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
TS
Thibaut S.
Head Knowledge Management
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"Using Confluence Wiki in an IT environment"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Ease of page creation. Page setup and maintenance is quite straight-forward. Documents can be very easily attached and non-native documents (e.g. Word or PDf docs) can also be imported. Users can subscribe to a page so changes to it will notify them, which is convenient as well.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Setup and maintenance of the on-premise version can be time consuming, and need knowledgeable staff to implement.

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

We are using Confluence Wiki to organize our IT documentation and informartion regarding all applications and software. We also use it to keep project notes as well as supporting documents from our daily activities.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 30, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Great Collaborative Documentation Software"
What do you like best about Confluence?

It's structured similarly to Google Sites, robust auto-linking to other documents

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Pay structure is on the higher side, requires hosted solution

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

Documentation of both internal and external features

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 30, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Collaboration done right"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Collaborative tools, multiple spaces/pages and allowing of tagging/notifying users.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

The learning curve required to learn the ins and outs of confluence.

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

Project management

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 30, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Easy collaborative tool"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Love the fact that you can tag users and action items after a meeting

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Page trees are a bit combursome to manage

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

Collaboration and shared space

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 30, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Great tool. "
What do you like best about Confluence?

Easy to navigate interface, makes it very easy to exchange information between departments. You can instantly see relevant updates.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

Crashes a bit too often than preferable. Sometimes a bit hard to find specific info because of page organization.

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

IT department keeps everyone updated on current issues and solutions. Multiple departments can collaborate on a problem, increasing information sharing. Definitely improved company-wide communication.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 30, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Helpful in the workplace"
What do you like best about Confluence?

Confluence is a place where the whole team can collaborate and document processes. It provides an easy way to organize this documentation as well.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

At tones the sleast arch feature makes it hard to nail down the correct location of the information that you are trying to acquire.

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

Makes the work easier to document with links and easy to read access of additional documents.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 30, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Easy way to stay on top of work"
What do you like best about Confluence?

This program allows for you to work on projects while away from the office.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

It works well for mobile devices as well as desktop

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

The ability to work together on projects

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 30, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
JJ
Jessica J.
Founder
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"Game changer for CS!"
What do you like best about Confluence?

I like being able to keep everything for my team in one place. We used to have one place for FAQs, another place for meeting notes/general updates/links, etc. Having one place to point the team toward that is also accessible by other teams is very convenient.

What do you dislike about Confluence?

It is a little confusing to use at first. Thankfully I was able to find a few YouTube videos that helped walk me through the process. Those were so helpful!

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

It helps all of our teams get on the same page about company policies. It helps us empower our CS agents to answer questions because they have one place in which they can find the information necessary to best help.