Confluence
About Confluence
Confluence is a shared workspace to create and manage all your work. Unlike document and file-sharing tools, Confluence is open and collaborative, helping your team and your company do their best work together. From technical teams and project management, to marketing, HR, and finance - the more people in an organization that use it, the more value teams get from it.
Confluence makes it easy to organize and find the information you need. Group related pages together in a dedicated space for your work, your team, or cross-functional projects. Depending on permissions, a space in Confluence can be made accessible to just you or the entire company. Page trees, which create a hierarchical list of pages within a space, highlight topics on parent pages and help keep work tidy.
Need to find something? Do a quick search to find any page ever created. You can even locate a comment someone posted to a page. Even after someone has left your company, you can still search for work they did, so knowledge is never lost.
Just about every type of project imaginable has started as a simple page in Confluence, from planning an office party to NASA's mission to Mars. Whether you need to capture meeting notes, document product requirements, or kick-off a design review, Confluence is a flexible platform for all your team's work.
Adapt Confluence to your specific work style to create a familiar place for your team to connect. Confluence's open workspace helps teams collaboratively create, review, revise, and finalize plans so work keeps moving forward.
No surprise that Confluence works seamlessly with Atlassian tools. Its pages provide a great backdrop for Jira Software tickets or Trello cards and boards. Inserting Jira tickets on your Confluence pages is as simple as copy/past, or create new tickets directly from your page by right-clicking on highlighted text. If you work in Trello, you can make updates directly to your cards right from Confluence pages.
In addition to seamless Atlassian integrations, there are hundreds of apps available for Confluence in the Atlassian Marketplace. Whether you want to add spreadsheets to your page, insert diagrams, showcase design prototypes or integrate with other popular apps like Google Drive or Salesforce, Marketplace apps make it easy to add more power to your pages to do your best work.
Pricing starting from:
US$4.89/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Key benefits of Confluence
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Pricing starting from:
US$4.89/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Confluence: 99
Alternatives
Dropbox Paper
Drupal
Microsoft 365
IT Glue
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- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The Collaboration Platform You've Waited For
Reviewed on 31/10/2019
We document everything in Confluence. I run a digital marketing team of around 20 people and have...
We document everything in Confluence. I run a digital marketing team of around 20 people and have a total of 40 users in the tool (a few other teams besides mine use it). It's been a fantastic tool to get everyone on the same page and keep track of our how-tos, meeting notes, plans, goals, features/specs, etc.
Pros
Real-time simultaneous editing
Ease of finding and organizing what I've written
Constantly adding new features
Integration with Jira and Trello is great, but also works as lightweight project management by itself
Cons
Honestly, they've fixed my biggest cons, like storage space (now you can buy a bigger plan) and they keep adding more things.
I think my colleagues would say there's still a learning curve, which is understandable, and I think Confluence has been changing the interface with more tips and features for new users (which is sometimes confusing for long-time users like me, LOL)
One big con is still the limited integration with MS Office. Confluence fully replaces the need for Word in most cases, so that's not a big deal, but I wish the Excel integration and/or the table functionality was better.
Also, printing is pretty tough when you have tables.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft SharePointReasons for Switching to Confluence
Confluence is quite inexpensive for what you get and it's super powerful. I really love the quick, accurate search results. The macro functionality and new "Slack" style slash commands are really cool. The notification system is very nice, especially the @mentions.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best knowledge management and wiki out there
Reviewed on 20/11/2020
If you use other Atlassian products, Confluence is the perfect complement. Because exporting...
If you use other Atlassian products, Confluence is the perfect complement. Because exporting documents is so bad, it works best if you, your colleagues and your stakeholders/clients all exist in the same Atlassian ecosystem.
Pros
Highly configurable and easy to use document templates, beautiful interface akin to using Medium, and deep integration with Jira Software and Jira Service Management are the features I find most useful. Recent changes to Templates to enable you to quickly search and preview available templates is incredibly helpful, as inline commenting while editing and being able to quickly convert anything into a Jira issue. Being able to use Confluence to defer service management requests by offering reporters the option of self serving an answer to their question/problem is a stroke of genius.
Cons
It's beyond irritating that exporting documents as a PDF is so horrendous out of the box. I also find the concept of Actions vs Jira issues confusing. I consistently find myself missing actions that have been buried in Confluence.
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Good is your are already with atlassian
Reviewed on 1/9/2024
Pros
Easy edition for the documentation and all stuff for a team
Cons
Not reactive as other products. Need more features
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent for shared knowledge base
Reviewed on 12/6/2024
Excellent, transformed the world of agile delivery - every business should have this!
Excellent, transformed the world of agile delivery - every business should have this!
Pros
Perfect way to store documentation in a single repository. Seamlessly integrates with Jira (another one of the Atlassian suite products), bridging the gap between content sharing and delivery. Documents can be as public or as private as you like in seconds. Can be altered to your needs and be as complex or as clean as fits your needs.
Cons
I actually can’t think of much I dislike, can’t even remember what life at work was before confluence :d
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
A good documentation tool
Reviewed on 4/9/2024
I use confluence mostly for documentation but also for project management and knowledge sharing.
I use confluence mostly for documentation but also for project management and knowledge sharing.
Pros
I like all of the formatting features and easy collaboration of Confluence.
Cons
I found the UI a bit confusing at first. I found it difficult to find things I was looking for.
Confluence FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Confluence.Q. What type of pricing plans does Confluence offer?
Confluence offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$4.89/month View Pricing Plans
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Confluence offers flexible pricing. $0 for teams up to 10 Standard: $5.50 per user/month Premium: $10.50 per user/month
Q. Who are the typical users of Confluence?
Confluence has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Confluence support?
Confluence supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Q. Does Confluence support mobile devices?
Confluence supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Confluence integrate with?
Confluence integrates with the following applications:
Balsamiq, Docusign, Evernote Teams, Gliffy, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Workspace, HipChat, Jira, Lucidchart, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SharePoint, draw.io
Q. What level of support does Confluence offer?
Confluence offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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