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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Confluence

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AConfluence is a collaboration and content sharing platform used primarily by customers who are already using Atlassian's Jira project tracking product. The product appeals particularly to IT users.

    $6.40

    per month per user

    Quickbase

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AQuickbase helps users tackle any project, no matter how complex. Quickbase helps customers see, connect and control complex projects. Whether it’s raising a skyscraper or coordinating vaccine rollouts, the no-code software platform allows business users to custom fit solutions to the way they work – using information from across the systems they already have.

    $700

    per month

    Pricing
    ConfluenceQuickbase
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    Free for 10 Users
    Standard
    $6.40
    per month per user
    Premium
    $12.30
    per month per user
    Data Center
    220,000.00
    40,001+ Users - Annually
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Enterprise
    Full Customizable
    per month/billed annually
    Business
    Starting at $2,200
    per month
    Team
    Started at $700
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ConfluenceQuickbase
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsPrices shown here reflect prices for deployments with 100 users or less. The prices decrease wien the user base surpasses 100.Quickbase offers three key plans, with feature distinction, simple and consistent entitlements, and a flexible licensing model, giving users the option of either user based or usage based licensing across all 3 plans.
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    Community Pulse
    ConfluenceQuickbase
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    No answer on this topic
    Quickbase
    Chose Quickbase
    I've lately found Quickbase lagging in being able to easily build dashboards from the data versus Microsoft BI as an example. However, for smaller scale projects/items, I do still prefer Quickbase. It's more on the larger scale cross-team projects where there seems to be a gap …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    QB is a true database so can do much more.
    Having said that, it’s more complex to develop in so end users can do more themselves in Smartsheet.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    If we talked about the agile feature Jira is a better well-suited application for managing and that is one of the main reasons Quickbase is not the selected one for us, also we preferred to use two or more apps to handle everything in their specialized application whether to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    While Jira is a powerful and useful tool, we found that Quick Base offered more customization, simple to use interface, and a better pricing model. At the end of the day, the decision was a good one, as our output increased after making the switch from Atlassian JIRA Align to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Quick Base has a different use case than Zendesk which is ticket triaging that is customer-facing. Quick Base is internally focused like JIRA but also not as development team heavy. If Quick Base could strike a nice balance to only cater to the needs of internal management …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    We were looking for a collaborative team task tracking solution and reviewed many different products that were dedicated to solving such a problem, or had the capability.
    QuickBase can both allow you to create it from scratch or apply a pre-defined template from its market …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    For the smaller company I was at where we did all of the production in-house, JIRA was definitely a better match. QuickBase works well for the larger corporation that our company is because it helps manage those larger moving pieces that are part of our process.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    95 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    141 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    85 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    122 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    98 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    142 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    106 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    107 Answers
    Features
    ConfluenceQuickbase
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Atlassian Confluence and Quickbase
    Feature
    Atlassian Confluence
    5.3
    111 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management6.389 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.912 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.221 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation4.060 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access3.884 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search5.7109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools2.488 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Atlassian Confluence and Quickbase
    Feature
    Atlassian Confluence
    6.9
    111 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Chat6.415 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications5.2109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions3.9103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase7.7103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts9.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook9.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Atlassian Confluence and Quickbase
    Feature
    Atlassian Confluence
    5.9
    111 Ratings
    28% below category average
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning6.494 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files4.271 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files3.765 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration6.5106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control8.0104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features7.080 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive5.947 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync5.650 Ratings00 Ratings
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    ConfluenceQuickbase
    Small Businesses
    Flock
    Score9.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Microsoft Viva Engage
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Microsoft Project Server
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Keep
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Planview PPM Pro
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ConfluenceQuickbase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (128 ratings)
    9.4
    (520 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (19 ratings)
    9.9
    (54 ratings)
    Usability
    6.6
    (15 ratings)
    8.4
    (40 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.4
    (25 ratings)
    7.4
    (44 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    9.8
    (22 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ConfluenceQuickbase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    I would recommend Atlassian Confluence for companies that want to have internal documentation and minimum governance processes to ensure documentation is useful and doesn't have a lot of duplicated and non-updated content. I wouldn't recommend Atlassian Confluence for companies with a low budget since this product might be a little costly (especially with add-ons).
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    I no longer think that Quickbase is the way of the future. They do not fix major bugs in a timely manner, and are releasing basic functionality behind a paywall. I believe that Enterprise Level Tier should be given certain things, like SLAs on Support and up-time. However, as a low-code no-code platform the majority of the accounts, "builders", and users are not going to be able to justify the cost of an Enterprise Tier Plan, and won't be able to use the features that Quickbase continues to advertise.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • Cross product linking - If you use other Atlassian products then Atlassian Confluence is a no-brainer for your source of documentation, knowledge management etc. You can show previews of the linked asset natively E.g. showing a preview of a JIRA ticket in a Atlassian Confluence page.
    • Simple editing - Though the features available may not be super complex right now, this does come with the benefit of making it easy to edit and create documents. Some documentation editors can be overwhelming, Atlassian Confluence is simple and intuitive.
    • Native marketplace - If you want to install add-ons to your Atlassian Confluence space it's really easy. Admins can explore the Atlassian marketplace natively and install them to your instance in a few clicks. You can customise your Atlassian Confluence instance in many different ways using add-ons.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    • Rapidly bring new ideas to life
    • Great authentication and authorization system out of the box
    • Connects with many major third-party services (via Pipelines)
    • Reporting and Dashboards are awesome
    • Excellent emails notification system to keep us in the loop when data changes
    • Intuitive UI for building forms and reports
    • Nice playground to test new ideas
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • UI Design is very simplistic and basic could make use of more visually interesting colour choices, layout choices, etc.
    • Under the 'Content' menu, it defaults to having a landing page for all L1 and L2 category pages. Meaning as long as the broader content category has a sub-category, it still creates a separate landing page. In my team's case, this often creates blank pages, as we only fill out the page at the lowest sub-category (L3).
    • Hyperlinks are traditionally shown as blue, however, this results into very monotonously blue pages in cases where a lot of information is being linked.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    • I'd like to see a link on email notices that take you directly into said notice. On an app that only has 1 or 2 email notices firing, there's no issue. However, we have some tools that are so complex that they have about 20 email notices firing at any given time based on the action users take. In this case, if we have to go in to modify a notice, we have to guess or scroll down the long list of notices to see which one we need to customize. It would be great if Quickbase had the URL of said notice somewhere at the footer of that notice so when Administrators click on it, it takes them into the exact notice they need to update.
    • When filling out or reviewing a lengthy form, I'd like to see the Save & close button, as well as a Save & next option at the bottom of the form rather than having to scroll back up to the top of those forms just to click on those choices.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atlassian
    I am confident that Atlassian can come with additional and innovative macros and functions to add value to Confluence. In 6 months, Atlassian transformed a good collaborative tools into a more comprehensive system that can help manage projects and processes, as well as "talk" with other Atlassian products like Jira. We are in fact learning more about Jira to evaluate a possible fit to complement our tool box.
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    Quickbase
    For our use-case of QuickBase, there really aren't any other products out there that can offer us the same out-of-the-box solutions they provide to us. We're also so integrated with it in our daily processes that to move away from it abruptly would cause mass chaos, so it's going to be renewed for at least the next several years.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Atlassian
    Great for organizing knowledge in a hierarchical format. Seamless for engineering and product teams managing software development. Helps in formatting pages effectively, reducing manual work. Tracks changes well and allows for easy rollbacks. Granular controls for who can view/edit pages. Search function is not great which needs improvement. Hire some google engineers
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    Quick Base has done everything we have asked it to do and then some. Our original goal was to have one system for CRM that encompassed both the sales process and the customer management. We have gone w-a-y beyond that with analytics, project management, system bug logging, and historical effort reporting.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Atlassian
    I do not recall having outages or applications error so far, very reliable and available.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    Once we did get Quick Base configured and customized it was reliably available when we needed it. We may have had one or two occasions when the product was inaccessible but those were few. The greatest challenge with its availability was its difficulty with integrating with our systems.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Atlassian
    We never worked against the tide while using Confluence. Everything loads considerably fast, even media components like videos (hosted on the platform or embed external videos from Youtube, for example). We are not using heavy media components a lot, but in the rare occasion we happen to use one we have no problems whatsoever.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    Some of our tables that hold over a million records are starting to perform poorly, with some summaries taking over 20 seconds to load. This may be an indication that it is best to archive old data when reaching large volumes like this.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    This rating is specifically for Atlassian's self-help documentation on their website. Often times, it is not robust enough to cover a complex usage of one of their features. Frequently, you can find an answer on the web, but not from Atlassian. Instead, it is usually at a power user group elsewhere on the net.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    If you utilize the community, the support is amazing. Unfortunately, I find their actual support system a bit underwhelming. They don't seem to have a great process for interacting directly with an issue and often sweep significant issues under the rug by categorizing them as "Enhancement" ideas or legacy items.
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    In-Person Training
    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    It is very easy to get training from their University portal and still if we don't know their, then we can ask their support too.
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    Online Training
    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    Quick Base already is having a separate portal of providing training to customers and it is very easy to use and updates as per the new features added in to the application
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    Implementation Rating
    Atlassian
    Overall, I am very satisfied with the initial implementation (and the subsequent upgrades and implementations made over the years).
    This product has never rose to the level of being an major issue at an executive level. It has quietly and valiantly done it's job for our company!
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    Quickbase
    I was not directly involved with the initial account implementation, only a bystander. For the app I directly implemented for my department only, I wish I had know to create an app diagram first. I don't remember if that was suggested. I think that would be a great help tip tool when a new app is created, to have a page with a check list of what is needed or how to get started. If you are a regular app builder, then you can bypass it or have the ability to turn it off in the app settings.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    We chose Atlassian Confluence over SharePoint because it's much more user-friendly and intuitive. Atlassian Confluence makes collaboration and knowledge sharing easier with its simpler interface and better search. While SharePoint can be powerful, it often feels clunky and complex, making it harder for our team to actually use it.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    Well, there's a plethora of low-code tools out on the marketplace and, you know, there's a reason that we've decided to partner with QuickBase because it has all the right balance of the ability to integrate with the ability for a citizen developer to create apps successfully. So if you look at something like Zo Ho's low-code offering, for example, yes, there are some similarities there, but they're really dependent on all of their other licensed products to get you where you want to be, where with QuickBase you have the ability to truly create something custom.
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    Scalability
    Atlassian
    This tool is very adaptable. So much so we use it for three completely separate projects, in three very different ways.
    Incentivized
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    Quickbase
    It has evolved really well with our company, but there is a hard limit to the table size that has begun to affect us and not let us grow. The table size limit is set at 500 MB and we have had to jump through quite a few hoops to be able to get by.
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    Professional Services
    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    Quickbase
    For clients we use Qucik base to develop application
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • The AI feature which lets me find relevant documents while reading one document is really beneficial.
    • Centralising of knowledge systems is one of the key differentiators for large organisations.
    • As long as folks keep using Google Docs and Atlassian Confluence, there is going to be a challenge in building a continuum.
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    Quickbase
    • ROI is HUGE. Our company saved over 3.5 million in one year alone based on developments that year in Quickbase that saved time for many teams
    • Less user error - implementing automations and standardized workflows has led to less user error as was previously seen by maintaining spreadsheets or Smartsheets
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