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Confluence vs Microsoft Teams: What are the differences?
Developers describe Confluence as "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. On the other hand, Microsoft Teams is detailed as "Chat-based workspace in Office 365". See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.
Confluence and Microsoft Teams are primarily classified as "Project Management" and "Group Chat & Notifications" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Confluence are:
- Spaces
- Pages
- Editor
On the other hand, Microsoft Teams provides the following key features:
- All your content, tools, people, and conversations are available in the team workspace
- Enjoy built-in access to SharePoint, OneNote, and Skype for Business
- Work on documents right in the app
"Wiki search power" is the primary reason why developers consider Confluence over the competitors, whereas "Free" was stated as the key factor in picking Microsoft Teams.
According to the StackShare community, Confluence has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1172 company stacks & 654 developers stacks; compared to Microsoft Teams, which is listed in 46 company stacks and 33 developer stacks.
Since now Jira is offering pretty wide free plans, it can compete with asana at small teams. And they have a significant advantage especially if you're working in agile methodology. Confluence is also a big advantage, and also comes with a free plan, so it's a pretty big thing. But we had also talked about asana and used to work with it before a lot, but we chose to go with Jira, and it's pretty good for now.
As it is the communication tool chosen for the course, our team will be using Slack to monitor the course announcements from our instructor as well as to communicate with the instructor and industry partners. The tool for communicating within the team will be Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams enables the team to share documents and edit them synchronously(Google Drive is not an option due to one team member's location). Since it also provides a group chat feature, we chose to use it as our communication tool to avoid using too many softwares.
Communication We have chosen two tools for our team communication.
- Slack
We choose Slack since all of us are familiar with this communication tool. We have a private channel for our team Sphinx for text messages. We added Github apps inside our private channel for repo update notifications. Furthermore, we could contact the subject matter experts within the workspace DCSIL directly for the issues we meet.
- Microsoft Teams
We use Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings for its fast connection speed. In addition, the call feature in Slack is a paid feature, and we could have virtual meetings and share screens for free in Microsoft Teams.
Pros of Confluence
- Wiki search power93
- WYSIWYG editor61
- Full featured, works well with embedded docs41
- Expensive licenses1
Pros of Microsoft Teams
- Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow26
- Mobile friendly22
- Free17
- Great integrations12
- Well-thought Design11
- Channels9
- Easy setup8
- Unlimited users6
- Strong search and data archiving5
- Multi domain switching support4
- Same interface on multiple platforms3
- Web interface3
- Easy to integrate with3
- Great voice quality2
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Cons of Confluence
- Expensive license2
Cons of Microsoft Teams
- Confusing UI15
- Bad performance on init and after quite a use11
- Bad Usermanagement9
- No desktop client (only fat and slow electron app)6
- Can't see all members in a video meeting6
- No Markdown Support5
- Unable to Mute users5
- MIssing public channels4
- You don't really own your messages4
- Forced WYSIWYG3
- No linux support3
- Challenging Onboarding3
- Stubborn, unused friendly3
- Is bad2
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