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Atlassian Confluence vs Microsoft OneDrive for Business comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
Atlassian Confluence improves onboarding, centralizes knowledge, and is regarded as a cost-effective tool enhancing efficiency and satisfaction.
Sentiment score
1.5
Microsoft OneDrive for Business boosts productivity and financial gains by simplifying document sharing and synchronizing files across devices.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Confluence users praise support's expertise but note issues with resolution speed, service limitations, and regional coverage variations.
Sentiment score
2.6
Microsoft OneDrive for Business support experiences vary, with some satisfied users and others frustrated by responsiveness and resolution effectiveness.
This team manages all queries and uses various plugins, such as Tempo for time tracking.
I have not dealt with Microsoft support related to Microsoft OneDrive for Business, but I would rate their customer service in the range of seven or eight at least.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Atlassian Confluence scales well for many users; however, cloud setups and costs can present challenges for some organizations.
Sentiment score
4.9
Microsoft OneDrive for Business is scalable, supporting thousands, with SharePoint integration, though free storage capacity could improve.
Microsoft has provided the extended version of SharePoint alongside Microsoft OneDrive for Business.
The solution is scalable.
It should be increased for the free version users, making it more reachable to many people.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Confluence users praise stability but note occasional connectivity issues; setup quality and updates influence performance and data integrity.
Sentiment score
5.9
Microsoft OneDrive for Business is stable and secure but has minor file migration and search issues with acknowledged historical connectivity improvements.
As a certified Microsoft product, it maintains high security standards.
I would rate the stability of Microsoft OneDrive for Business an eight out of ten as it has improved significantly since I started using it from the very initial days of Skydrive.
 

Room For Improvement

Atlassian Confluence struggles with integration, pricing, and user access, needing improvements in collaboration, customization, and interface efficiency.
Microsoft OneDrive for Business needs better sync, sharing, interface, file handling, tutorials, support, accessibility, and integration enhancements.
The software does not currently have any kind of AI integration.
This chart used AI to offer users the option to create it based on the data.
I have experience with multiple version controls, including Git, TFS (Team Foundation Server), and GitHub.
Microsoft OneDrive for Business currently lacks AI integration for management and collaboration, which is an area of interest for me.
 

Setup Cost

Atlassian Confluence pricing varies with user base and setup, with costs increasing for plugins and external access.
Microsoft OneDrive for Business pricing varies by user experiences, with perceptions influenced by usage and organizational requirements.
It streamlines license management and renewal processes, which can otherwise lead to complications or lapses in access.
 

Valuable Features

Atlassian Confluence excels with ease of use, collaboration tools, Jira integration, customizable templates, and cross-device accessibility.
Microsoft OneDrive for Business enhances collaboration and accessibility with integration, cloud storage, security, global access, and robust sharing features.
This tool provides a single repository for interacting with the entire team.
I appreciate the feature in SharePoint where it's difficult to permanently delete a file, as you can always recover files very easily.
Sometimes when we work on PowerPoint or large Word documents, there is a chance that the document gets rolled back to a previous version, and you lose your work.
 

Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
106
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Enterprise Social Software (3rd), Knowledge Management Software (1st)
Microsoft OneDrive for Busi...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
3.7
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (4th)
 

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 13.8%, down 17.0% compared to last year.
Microsoft OneDrive for Business, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 9.4% mindshare, down 12.4% since last year.
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Atlassian Confluence13.8%
SharePoint28.0%
Liferay Digital Experience Platform19.4%
Other38.800000000000004%
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
Content Collaboration Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Microsoft OneDrive for Business9.4%
Dropbox Business - Enterprise10.1%
Google Workspace9.1%
Other71.4%
Content Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Rabindra K Maharana - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Richard Griggs - PeerSpot reviewer
Long-term data security and automatic saving features improve efficiency with smooth setup and deployment processes
Some of the best features of Microsoft OneDrive for Business are the ability to ensure automatic saving. I've been in IT for over thirty years and have seen plenty of times when people forgot to hit file save and lost data, and having this automatically saved constantly is a very nice feature set. The synchronization capabilities of Microsoft OneDrive for Business certainly support my work as it is handy if you're concerned about people writing data on their local PCs and the laptops getting stolen or crashing, to have it sync everything up to your Microsoft OneDrive for Business account so that you're not having to worry about backing up locally. You try to make sure that people are putting things in the right folder to ensure they'll get backed up. Before using Microsoft OneDrive for Business, we were actually storing things locally and had shared folders or home folders out on the network. They made the change to Microsoft OneDrive for Business because they wanted to put it out in the cloud and get better performance, automatic backups, and all the rest of it.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business38
Midsize Enterprise26
Large Enterprise52
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise15
 

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.
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...
What needs improvement with Atlassian Confluence?
There's room for improvement in the way folders are structured in Atlassian Confluence. Sometimes it's frustrating when we have two documents that we want to have the same name. For instance, we mi...
What needs improvement with Microsoft OneDrive?
Regarding Microsoft OneDrive for Business's versioning control, sometimes there are syncing problems. Microsoft OneDrive for Business is available on the cloud as well as on my local machine. When ...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft OneDrive?
I have been working with Microsoft OneDrive for Business for three years; I started my job in that industry when I came and began with the Office 365 technology.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft OneDrive?
The pricing for Microsoft OneDrive for Business would be average. If we analyze deeper or require extra storage apart from other products in the market, I would rate it at 4 or 4.5 concerning the p...
 

Also Known As

Confluence
MS OneDrive
 

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Sample Customers

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