Atlassian Confluence vs Microsoft OneDrive comparison

The compared Atlassian and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Atlassian is ranked #2 in CP , with an average rating of 8.4, and holds a 15.1% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #11 in CCP , and holds a 9.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Atlassian Confluence

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90% willing to recommend

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90% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

105

Ranking in other categories

Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Enterprise Social Software (3rd), Knowledge Management Software (1st)

Microsoft OneDrive

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (11th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Atlassian Confluence is designed for Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) and holds a mindshare of 15.1%, down 18.2% compared to last year.
Microsoft OneDrive, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 9.6% mindshare, down 12.9% since last year.

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Rabindra K Maharana

Business Consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited

Editing features improve document accessibility

There is a holiday calendar, however, I need to install an app or add something to it. The add-on feature is not readily available or well-documented. Guidance on this should be available in a forum. Recently, I used a feature in another tool—perhaps GitHub—where it helped prepare a chart. It involved listing resources, like having fifteen people in the X team, ten in the Y team, and seven in the Z team. It created a bar chart showing these numbers. This chart used AI to offer users the option to create it based on the data. It was then created on a separate page and made available.

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Victor Bayouwa

Owner at VBTECH-IT

I love the backup capabilities and the offline sync

We use OneDrive to share documents throughout the organization and collaborate. It is also used for backups. The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again. It takes too long for…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is very intuitive and provides excellent content management."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"With respect to our experiences with Confluence, we haven't had any issues."

"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."

"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."

"There is a good library of templates for a wide range of needs."

"Document collaboration is the most valuable aspect of the solution."

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"It gives you access to important files from virtually anywhere."

"It was extremely easy to setup."

"Image management is great since the search is simple, and accessing images with labels is easy."

"It's pretty easy to learn. Once someone taught me, I was able to navigate it quite easily."

"It is simple to use and it allows me to give me the opportunity to access anything I want from any device."

"It helps you keep organized."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the amount of space allotted to each user that is issued a subscription."

"They have support for integration with a lot of tools."

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Cons

"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."

"Atlassian Confluence could improve how information is shared outside our company. We had some negative experiences with the rights we have with our information when sharing it within Atlassian Confluence and with other teams outside the company. It's due to the limitations on the rights we have on the export capabilities. We don't have sufficient rights to do so."

"The add-on feature is not readily available or well-documented."

"Confluence cannot replace Microsoft Word at the moment, so even though it can be used as a document management system, it is not meant for document creation, which adds a lot of limitations to it."

"The user interface could be improved."

"It would be good if they can continue working towards making documentation and editing as quick and easy as possible. It has got a lot of capability, but I don't know how to use it. I don't find some of the things that intuitive. Sometimes, it doesn't seem obvious to me how to use it, but it is like learning any new tool. You actually need to get trained on the tool to get maximum out of it."

"The UX is a little bit all over the place."

"In the next release, I would like to have the ability to import pictures."

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"The solution has sub-folders, which are visible to various team members. If you want to ensure the information is private, you would need to have a certain level of seniority in the office."

"The online application is quite limited, for this and other Office offerings."

"The area that can be improved is to be able to share easily with folks outside the organization and with folks who don't have an office account. Sometimes, when you send a link, you might have some form of repetition. If you don't know how to share it properly, whoever you are sharing it with will have issues using it. Also, the link that you use to share a document can be made a bit shorter. It doesn't have to be long. Typically, when you want to share a document, it has everything, such as the name of the organization, SharePoint, etc. A short URL will be easier to use, and it will just make life easier, especially because a lot of people are now going mobile. I'm not sure if there's a mobile version of Microsoft OneDrive, similar to Google Drive. If they don't have a mobile app, it would also be nice to have a mobile app because that would help in checking out your documents. It would be easy to check your documents on the go on your phone."

"No one gets an alert when files are deleted."

"Microsoft OneDrive could improve because it doesn't support backing up .PST files, which are Outlook data files, and email archives. This is a substantial setback when it comes to Microsoft OneDrive."

"I think it should be more user-friendly with more tutorials on the full scale of the program."

"An increase in the capacity of storage in the free version would be nice."

"The user interface could be a little more intuitive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are some cases where you can go on Confluence as a public site without a license, but you will not have all of the features. You can also have a Confluence site that does not require a license just to read the articles. When you have Jira Service Management attached to Confluence, then you can go through the portal of Jira Service Management and read the Confluence articles without the license. This is good because when you are in an ITSM environment, you have many customers, and you do not want them to have to pay just to read articles. Regarding the use of the full features of Confluence, there is a license cost, and it depends on how many users you want."

"Confluence charges an extra fee for analytics."

"We pay $350 a month to use the solution."

"In my opinion, it's worth the investment"

"For us, it's free to use. We don't pay any licensing."

"Licenses are quite expensive"

"Maybe we're only using 10% of it, but we have to pay for everything."

"We have to pay licensing fees."

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"It is free if you are using Office 365, and you get a terabyte of storage with your account."

"OneDrive comes with Microsoft 365 so it is just an added part of that package."

"Using this software, it has had an amazing impact moneywise on our business. It allows us to share documents without the need of extra hardware."

"The licensing is expensive and on a yearly basis."

"The price of Microsoft OneDrive is reasonable and compatible with competitors."

"We pay a lot for the Enterprise version, but it is a premium service."

"Costwise, it is a great option. In most cases, it is a free space, which will be more than enough for most customers."

"This is a pricy solution, given that we are only using it at 50% capacity."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

46%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

20%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Atlassian Confluence?

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, controlled documents cannot be edited by anyone else.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlassian Confluence?

With Atlassian, the costs are reasonable. Although higher than before when we used multiple platforms and licenses, having a collaborative platform like this is advantageous. It streamlines license...

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Overview

Project management is easy with Atlassian's Confluence as your single source of truth. It integrates with JIRA so you can easily add context to your projects in one central location. Create and track issues & product requirements, publish release reports, track release progress, and more when you connect Confluence and JIRA. Confluence allows you to create, share, evolve, and capture your team's project documentation so you can collaborate better, smarter, and as a team.

Confluence also organizes your powerful repository of information, opinions, and knowledge to help you answer questions, create how-to docs, and possibly identify the next big thing. Logical and consistent management of knowledge and a powerful search engine ensure that you can always find the right content, when you need it most. Share, organize, and discover content all in one platform.

Confluence has multiple deployment options to provide the flexibility your organization needs.

Cloud is a fully hosted service for customers who want to iterate quickly and have us take care of managing the infrastructure.

For customers who need to run our applications behind their firewall, we have Server and Data Center options. Server delivers greater capacity for a larger user base and gives you more control, allowing you to remain compliant with your enterprise IT, security, IP and privacy policies. For our largest customers, Data Center provides all the capability of our Server option, along with high availability, instant scalability and performance at scale.

Atlassian also offers premium support and strategic services for enterprise customers. Technical Account Managers are cross-functional technical advisors providing proactive planning and strategic guidance across your organization. Premier Support goes above and beyond our standard offerings to give you account-wide support from a team of senior support engineers.

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Microsoft OneDrive for Business gives you online storage that works seamlessly with the tools you use every day to create, communicate, and collaborate from your PC/Mac or your iOS, Android, or Windows device.

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Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.

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