Confluence vs SharePoint

Overview

Confluence

Stacks26.6K

Followers19.5K

Votes202

Microsoft SharePoint

Stacks440

Followers314

Votes7

Confluence vs SharePoint: What are the differences?

What is Confluence? One place to share, find, and collaborate on information. Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.

What is SharePoint? Content collaboration for the modern workplace. It empowers teamwork with dynamic and productive team sites for every project team, department, and division. Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and seamlessly collaborate across the organization.

Confluence can be classified as a tool in the "Project Management" category, while SharePoint is grouped under "File Storage".

Some of the features offered by Confluence are:

Spaces
Pages
Editor

On the other hand, SharePoint provides the following key features:

Authentication
Business Intelligence
Web Content Management

According to the StackShare community, Confluence has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1172 company stacks & 655 developers stacks; compared to SharePoint, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Confluence	Microsoft SharePoint
Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.	It empowers teamwork with dynamic and productive team sites for every project team, department, and division. Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and seamlessly collaborate across the organization.
Spaces;Pages;Editor;Macros;Tasks;Attachments;Notifications;Search;Mobile;JIRA Integration;Installation;Customize;Personal;Security	Authentication; Business Intelligence; Web Content Management
Statistics
Stacks 26.6K	Stacks 440
Followers 19.5K	Followers 314
Votes 202	Votes 7
Pros & Cons
Pros 94 Wiki search power 62 WYSIWYG editor 43 Full featured, works well with embedded docs 3 Expensive licenses Cons 3 Expensive license	Pros 3 Great online support 1 Seamless intergration with MS Office 1 Perfect version control 1 Stable Platform 1 Secure Cons 2 Rigid, hard to add external applicaions 1 User interface. Steep learning curve, old-fashioned
Integrations
GitLab Bitbucket GitHub Google Drive Balsamiq Jira Gliffy	Jira Slack

What are some alternatives to Confluence, Microsoft SharePoint?

Trello

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

Google Drive

Keep photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos, and more. Your first 15 GB of storage are free with a Google Account. Your files in Drive can be reached from any smartphone, tablet, or computer.

Dropbox

Harness the power of Dropbox. Connect to an account, upload, download, search, and more.

Asana

Asana is the easiest way for teams to track their work. From tasks and projects to conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish--and get results. Available at asana.com and on iOS & Android.

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning, and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Includes broad IDE support.

Basecamp

Basecamp is a project management and group collaboration tool. The tool includes features for schedules, tasks, files, and messages.

Redmine

Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

Taskulu

Taskulu is a collaborative project planning service. It combines task management, real-time chat and time tracking into a single interface.

Notion

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's a unified and collaborative workspace for you and your team

Box

The Box API gives you access to the content management features you see in our web app and lets you extend them for use in your own app. It strives to be RESTful and is organized around the main resources you’re familiar with from the Box web interface.