We performed a comparison between Atlassian Confluence and Slack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Social Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is stable and reliable."
"Easy to share information and the integration with JIRA is good."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"The integration's very good. You still have integration with lots of third party products, and it's very good."
"It integrates well with other Atlassian products"
"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"Collaboration is most valuable. You can upload or create your documents on Confluence and share them with your team members. Your team members also can share documents."
"What I like the most is the Wiki software that comes with Atlassian Confluence."
"Slack provides very fast communication."
"With respect to being a clean and efficient communications platform, I think that it does the job quite well."
"The most valuable feature for me was the different channels."
"One thing I like about Slack is the ability to change the color of Slack. It depends on my mood. When I'm having a bright day, I just change the background color of my Slack, which is nice."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is communication between team members."
"The most valuable features are video conferencing and sharing content during meetings."
"Its integration with different apps is a great feature."
"I like the tool's ability to send voice mail. We can also search for conversations easily in Slack."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"I would like to see integration with Slack."
"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"The user interface is a little bit stale. The file attachments and how they work could be improved. There is also room for improvement when it comes to CDNs."
"When you are creating a table in Confluence, there is no tool to export it into Excel sheet for quick references. We can only export it as an a PDF file, but not into an editable file."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"I think the couple of improvement areas would be around Markdown support and support for adding code."
"The search function is not great."
"When scaled on a large scale, the solution's cost becomes a matter of concern for organizations."
"Customization is something that Slack is lacking."
"I have found it cumbersome to create and set up groups, or channels."
"When someone responds to my message in Slack, a new window opens. There should be an option to roll down the answers."
"We’d like it to have more capability for everyone to work on one doc in real time all at once."
"I would like the in-meeting content sharing facility to be improved."
"Notifications are not as good as they could be (especially for mobile)."
"Slack does not have videoconferencing capabilities, which would have been nice."
Atlassian Confluence is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Social Software with 99 reviews while Slack is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Social Software with 68 reviews. Atlassian Confluence is rated 8.2, while Slack is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Atlassian Confluence writes "Good usability, helpful community support, and facilitates well-structured documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Slack writes "A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity". Atlassian Confluence is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365, SharePoint and OpenText Documentum, whereas Slack is most compared with Symphony, SharePoint, ChatWork, Chatter and Zulip. See our Atlassian Confluence vs. Slack report.
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