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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

26.9%

7,636 installations of 28,392

“When used company-wide you can find the information yourself rather than having to bother somebody for it.”
— Customer Support team leader, Trimble Transport & Logistics (10,001+ employees)

#2 most frequent

Information

15.2%

4,324 installations of 28,392

“Permissions management. Controlling permissions and access of internal users who need custom access.”
— Marketing Automation Manager, MassMutual (10,001+ employees)

#3 most frequent

Manufacturing

10.7%

3,030 installations of 28,392

“Preserves context from conversations in a central source of truth. Saves us time remembering what was said”
— Manager, Curation, DrugBank (51-200 employees)

#4 most frequent

Retail Trade

3.5%

989 installations of 28,392

“Atlassian Jira, Miro, Mural and Trello”
— UX Researcher, The Home Depot Canada (10,001+ employees)

#5 most frequent

Health Care and Social Assistance

3.2%

920 installations of 28,392

#6 most frequent

Other Services (except Public Administration)

2.5%

696 installations of 28,392

#7 most frequent

Construction

0.9%

263 installations of 28,392

Overview

Synthesised from 47 reviews

This product assessment is based on a synthesis of 47 recent reviews analyzing Atlassian Confluence across multiple dimensions. Confluence primarily functions as a collaborative workspace and documentation tool, often used by teams to centralize knowledge, manage projects, and facilitate communication. One of Confluence's most lauded strengths is its seamless integration with Jira, with 28% of reviewers specifically highlighting this feature. This integration streamlines workflows by linking development tracking, bug reports, and documentation. Confluence is also praised for its ease of use, with 19% of reviewers noting its simple interface for structuring pages and creating documents. Many users, 43% of reviewers, report significant time savings and efficiency gains as a result of using Confluence. Another 34% of reviewers cite improved collaboration, and 32% value it as a centralized knowledge base. However, some reviewers (9%) report challenges with search and usability, indicating that finding information can sometimes be difficult, which can offset some of the platform's efficiency gains. When considering alternatives, Microsoft SharePoint is the most frequently mentioned competitor, appearing in 23% of reviews.

Pros

Seamless integration with Jira, enabling linked workflows between development and documentation.
User-friendly interface, simplifying page structuring and document creation.
Centralized knowledge base, facilitating efficient information sharing and project documentation.
Improved time savings and efficiency, streamlining workflows and reducing meeting overhead.
Enhanced collaboration through multi-user editing and commenting capabilities.

Cons

Search and usability issues can hinder information retrieval.
Some users find it difficult to locate specific information within the platform.

What other products like Atlassian Confluence have you used or evaluated?

From 47 reviews

Summary

In a review set of 47, users were asked what other products they have used or evaluated that are similar to Atlassian Confluence. Microsoft SharePoint is the most frequently mentioned alternative, appearing in 23% (11 of 47) of reviews. Atlassian Jira was also commonly cited, with 13% (6 of 47) of reviewers mentioning it. Miro and Trello were each mentioned by 9% (4 of 47) of reviewers. Google Drive and Notion were mentioned by 6% (3 of 47) of reviewers. Other products mentioned include Coda, Slack and Basecamp, each appearing in 4% (2 of 47) of reviews. Reviewers often mentioned multiple products in conjunction, indicating that they may be used together or have overlapping functionalities. This suggests that users often consider a range of tools when looking for solutions similar to Atlassian Confluence.

Top Quotes

Coda

“Coda, Microsoft SharePoint, Spekit, Highspot and Asana”

Slack

“Miro, GitHub and Slack”

Basecamp

“Basecamp and monday.com”

What positive or negative impact (i.e. Return on Investment or ROI) has Atlassian Confluence had on your overall business objectives?

From 47 reviews

Summary

This report synthesizes 47 recent reviews to assess the return on investment (ROI) of Atlassian Confluence. Reviewers most frequently cite improvements in time savings and efficiency (43%, 20 of 47) as contributing to Confluence's positive impact on business objectives. A substantial number of users also highlight improved collaboration (34%, 16 of 47) and its function as a knowledge base and documentation tool (32%, 15 of 47). These benefits are closely linked, as Confluence's ability to centralize information streamlines workflows and reduces the need for meetings. Furthermore, many reviewers (21%, 10 of 47) specifically mention increased productivity as a result of using Confluence. However, a small fraction of reviewers report issues with search and usability (9%, 4 of 47), noting difficulty in finding information, which can offset some of the time-saving benefits.

Top Quotes

Time savings/Efficiency

“Confluence saves us a ton of time in note-taking and drafting recommendations for marketing initiatives and helps us stay on top of to-dos that come from meetings so we can go above and beyond in delivering for our clients.”

Improved collaboration

“When used company-wide you can find the information yourself rather than having to bother somebody for it.”

Knowledge base/Documentation

“Way more structured way to gather our procedures than before.”

Besides Atlassian Confluence, what other software do you regularly use? How likely would you be to recommend it to a friend or colleague?

From 47 reviews

Summary

This analysis of 47 product reviews explores what other software reviewers regularly use alongside Atlassian Confluence. Atlassian Jira is by far the most frequently mentioned complementary software, with 49% of reviewers (23 of 47) noting its use alongside Confluence. Microsoft 365, Slack, and Miro are each mentioned by 11% of reviewers (5 of 47), suggesting a notable but less dominant pattern of co-usage. Google Drive and Microsoft Teams are also mentioned, but at a lower rate of 6% (3 of 47) and 9% (4 of 47) respectively. The consistent co-mention of Jira indicates a strong integration or workflow dependency between the two Atlassian products, while the other tools suggest a broader ecosystem of collaboration and productivity software used in conjunction with Confluence.

Top Quotes

Atlassian Jira

“Atlassian Jira”

Microsoft 365

“Microsoft 365, Microsoft Excel”

Slack

“Notion, Atlassian Jira, Slack, PyCharm, Perplexity, ChatGPT, ClickUp”

Please provide some detailed examples of things that Atlassian Confluence does particularly well.

From 47 reviews

Summary

This analysis of 47 recent reviews reveals several areas where Atlassian Confluence is perceived to perform well. A strong signal is its integration with Jira, mentioned by 28% (13 of 47) of reviewers, who appreciate the ability to link development tracking, bug reports, and other work directly to Confluence documentation. Many reviewers, 19% (9 of 47), also highlight the ease of use, citing the simple interface for structuring pages and creating documents. Documentation capabilities are also frequently lauded, with 19% (9 of 47) of reviewers emphasizing its value as a central source of truth for meeting discussions, decisions, and other project-related information. Collaboration features are another strength, noted by 17% (8 of 47) of reviewers, who value the ability for multiple users to edit and comment on documents. Finally, reviewers appreciate the platform's permissions management, mentioned by 13% (6 of 47), which allows for tailored access control.

Top Quotes

Jira integration

“Connection with Jira”

Ease of use

“Easy to use interface to structure pages.”

Documentation

“Write documentation in plain text.”

Reviews

174 Reviews

Flexible solution and well worth it

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 6, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using Atlassian Confluence for our shared technical team knowledge space and supporting projects with relevant documents in an organized way. It helps address problems of supporting internal knowledge transfer and supporting the intake and development of business initiatives.

Pros

Knowledge management. Storage and maintenance of documents in a shared secure space.
Permissions management. Controlling permissions and access of internal users who need custom access.
Help and support. Supporting onboarding new users and visual guidance of how to use the tool.

Cons

Interface customization. Building a custom interface and custom menu options would help for some of our teams looking for custom modules to use within the tool.
Supporting multi lingual. Allowing for multiple languages to be used in the same workspace would help support global users.
Tool integrations. Integrating directly with other visualization tools has been challenging and doesn't work smoothly from the get go.

Likelihood to Recommend

Atlassian Confluence works great for mid size and enterprise teams looking for a solution for knowledge management, building an organized workspace and sharing digital notes across teams. Its easy to onboard and learn for technical and non technical users.

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Atlassian Confluence is your way to go for collaboration and your documentation needs

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 25, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atlassian Confluence is the perfect place for documentation, it has our component docs, strategy docs to whatever is needed at an organization level. From my QA perspective it has our test strategy, test plan, the development and deployment plans. The component guides, the training plan and programs, references to achievements and others

Pros

Documentation
Ease of Maintenance
Formatting options
AI Generated summary

Cons

AI Generated summary can improve
Copy / pasting features cross different versions
More graphic adding capabilities

Likelihood to Recommend

Atlassian Confluence is well suited: 1. Documentation is extensive and needs to be shared within a huge team 2. Exporting and sending as PDF 3. One place for all the documentation needs. 4. Formatting features w.r.t Rich text, tables and dynamic elements. 5. AI based summary for huge pages. 6. Commenting and assigning tasks to team Where it is less appropriate: 1. Huge pages stack one below the other, unlike the powerpoint. 2. Individual licenses

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

All in one documentation on hand

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 18, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atlassian Confluence is used as a documentation platform for the different projects that are being worked on by each of the employees in the company. This contains the important project details that needs to be communicated to project members. This also serves as an editing platform as this has version control and is very user-friendly with the option to have parallel editing.

Pros

Very user-friendly
Can be accessed anywhere
Is very fast and convenient to use

Cons

Integration with different platforms
More objects to add on documents
More options of types of document to be added

Likelihood to Recommend

Atlassian Confluence is best-suited for big teams. This is a very good collaboration tool that can be accessed by different team members. This also helps communication and documentation to avoid mishaps and miscommunication between teams and members. In my experience, our team consists of 10 members and we can all document different information from different projects at the same time.

Verified User

Analyst in Quality Assurance (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Atlassian Confluence Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atlassian Confluence is used within the organisation to store all sorts of documentation - requirements, process documentation, team charts, timelines, different spaces. It is a very versatile tool and can be used by multiple users (internally and client side). Its also an easy tool to grasp and so very user friendly in that sense.

Pros

User friendly
Variety of tools
Being a one stop shop for documentation

Cons

I think adding comments can be a pain in Atlassian Confluence because they're hidden
Sometimes organising where pages fit in within Atlassian Confluence
Adding images and files or creating tables within Atlassian Confluence can be a bit of a pain

Likelihood to Recommend

Atlassian Confluence is defnitely suited for the use of a collaboration tool between the client and interally. There's a variety of documentation that can be added to Atlassian Confluence and it's also quite easy to organise it in a way that works for all. We've used it to store design documentation, requirements documentation or general documentation also.

Verified User

Professional in Professional Services (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Atlassian Confluence review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for internal documentation. The business problems the product addresses is sharing documentation between teams. It's so easy to publish documentation in Atlassian Confluence. It's a good thing that also comes with a big risk: duplicated information. That being said, we should have something to manage all published content.

Pros

Write documentation in plain text.
Protect internal documentation.
Project organization.

Cons

Information architecture.
Publishing manangement.
Reviewing content without the need of so many addons.

Likelihood to Recommend

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).

Verified User

Team Lead (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Atlassian Confluence : the must have for knowledge management

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

March 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Atlassian Confluence as a wiki for our company. A lot of articles, informations, knowledge are available in the tool such as : incident management process, project infos, architecture decision records. It's quite useful to keep a track of static knowledge.

Pros

the management of wiki pages
the management of summary related to spaces
the integration with others tool like JIRA or MIRO
the design with the dark mode is great

Cons

The search is totally not good enough
integration with google spreadsheet should be improved
The management of knowledge outdated should be improved

Likelihood to Recommend

If the need is capitalizing the knowledge of the company, Atlassian Confluence is probably the good tool. The way a wiki is working is very efficient to connect knowledge together. But the search function is not enough efficient. I spend too much time trying to find a specific content. At the end, I manage a lot of bookmarks to Atlassian Confluence pages to make my life easier because of the search not working well enough.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Knowledge management and visibility made easy

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company uses Confluence to solve several problems mostly related to transparent, accessible communication. It's used for several use cases including project management, meeting notes, research repositories, product development (via Jira boards), async work, and support team resources. Each team uses Confluence in their own unique ways due to the flexibility and customization the platform provides. My team uses it for meeting notes, FAQs, SOPs, and a research repository to keep track of historical research studies and avoid duplicative work.

Pros

Customization of pages + information hierarchy
Balancing accessibility with security via SSO log in and enterprise level user licensing
Jira boards for product development and project management

Cons

Merging environments between companies - we've had M&As affecting our company and access between legacy company versions has been a huge pain point
Search functionality needs serious improvement especially given the mass of information that lives in it
Integration with SharePoint - when linking to SharePoint documents, if you move a file within the sharepoint, it breaks the link in Confluence

Likelihood to Recommend

Confluence is a great tool to document and make work visible. It's pretty scalable meaning small teams can use it and as your team/company grows, it still serves useful during that growth. Confluence has pretty robust functionality, so it can be a good tool to solve multiple challenges within an organization that could prevent teams with smaller budgets from having to contract / purchase licenses from multiple vendors.

Verified User

Employee in Product Management (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Organization, project planning, and documentation are all possible with Confluence

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 6, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atlassian Confluence helps us to organize operations, project planning, and important company knowledge within one central repository. This product helps us by keep everything we need as a Product Development team in one spot. The flexible formatting of pages as well as the introduction of whiteboards makes this even easier for us. We use whiteboards primarily to story map larger projects, and we absolutely love the feature to convert sticky notes or other posts on the whiteboard into stories/tickets on our Jira board. The seamless connection between Jira and Confluence also makes Confluence the ideal spot for me as a Product Manager to plan future sprints for our Development team and lay out stories from Jira within the sprint plan.

Pros

Connection with Jira
Ease of use
Ability to communicate with others in-product

Cons

Whiteboards are still a little janky to use, hard to switch between the cursor and the hand, etc.
When editing a page in Atlassian Confluence with tickets from Jira, it does not show the amount of story points per ticket on hover. You have to publish the page/go out of editing mode to see the # of story points which has been a pain point during sprint planning
It would be great to create custom templates for pages by user so we can add those templates to pages when we want to use them, ie for a Sprint Plan

Likelihood to Recommend

Atlassian Confluence is great for documentation, planning, and communication across teams. I use this platform exclusively for all my sprint planning as a Product Manager/Product Owner, and it is incredibly easy to share these plans with my team and link them back to our project in Jira as well. I use Atlassian Confluence for pretty much every facet of my role, so I am not sure where it is less appropriate to use it.

Jessica Kloss

Associate Product Owner in Product Management at Expert Institute (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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If you're using Atlassian products it's the reason to use this

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

March 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

A lot of our documentation for both the products and internal way of working is setup there. We've at a certain point made it the place where business logic was defined so developers could access it.

Pros

Ties directly with Jira
You can reference someone in the organization
Has some nice formating on the warnings and other widgets

Cons

Layout of the pages are a bit restrictive and they could look nicer
Working with other colleagues at the same time
Having more dynamic spaces that are more seemless integrated

Likelihood to Recommend

If you're connected with Atlassian and you are working on things that don't change too much. It helps to keep track of documents.

Rodrigo Diaz

Product Manager in Product Management at Futurewhiz (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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An all-in-one tool that every organization needs

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

March 4, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a researcher, I mainly use Atlassian Confluence as a repository for all the current and past research reports that I can access to and share with other team members. In my team's space, I create pages to summarize the research findings and recommendations, while also attaching other related resources and files. I also leverage other teams' spaces and pages to refer to their resources, such as current and past product roadmaps, or if I want to learn about a specific team's work in more detail.

Pros

Search
Tagging
Page sharing

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Atlassian Confluence is a great tool for housing important information and resources across the organization, as it's very easy to search and find content across different teams and departments. The search function is mostly very accurate and the additional tagging with keywords also helps in the search experience. It's also good at tagging other team members, which triggers an automated email to them. Atlassian Confluence also has an extensive template library for all kinds of purposes like project management, etc., which saves time overall.

Verified User

Employee in Research & Development (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Organization, project planning, and documentation are all possible with Confluence

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 6, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Connection with Jira
Ease of use
Ability to communicate with others in-product

Cons

Whiteboards are still a little janky to use, hard to switch between the cursor and the hand, etc.
When editing a page in Atlassian Confluence with tickets from Jira, it does not show the amount of story points per ticket on hover. You have to publish the page/go out of editing mode to see the # of story points which has been a pain point during sprint planning
It would be great to create custom templates for pages by user so we can add those templates to pages when we want to use them, ie for a Sprint Plan

Likelihood to Recommend

Jessica Kloss

Associate Product Owner in Product Management at Expert Institute (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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