Atlassian Confluence vs Microsoft OneDrive comparison

Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)

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Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

105

Ranking in other categories

Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Enterprise Social Software (2nd), Knowledge Management Software (1st)

Microsoft OneDrive

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (3rd)

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 15.1%, down 19.6% compared to last year.
Microsoft OneDrive, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 10.2% mindshare, down 13.4% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Rabindra K Maharana

Business Consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited

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.

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Victor Bayouwa

Owner at VBTECH-IT

I love the backup capabilities and the offline sync

We use OneDrive to share documents throughout the organization and collaborate. It is also used for backups. The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again. It takes too long for…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product has a valuable feature for quick verification of documents."

"Copying another page and providing an option to edit everything is valuable."

"This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance."

"Confluence is easy to use and integrate with other solutions, including social media platforms."

"The scalability is enough for our use cases. It covers all our needs."

"Many people enjoy its zero learning-curve."

"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."

"Easy to share information and the integration with JIRA is good."

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"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."

"Ability to share documents."

"The stability of Microsoft OneDrive is very good, it is reliable. There were multiple instances where I had lost my valuable data on hard drives in several other places. However, with Microsoft OneDrive, I've never lost a single file."

"They have support for integration with a lot of tools."

"It gives you access to important files from virtually anywhere."

"Image management is great since the search is simple, and accessing images with labels is easy."

"Scalability is good just because it is a cloud-based product."

"It is good as a central hub for the storage of documents and sharing among team members."

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Cons

"I'd like to see some improved reporting on usage."

"There could be an option to collaborate with other users while editing the documents."

"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."

"We have to use other applications that make Atlassian Confluence more customized for what you want. They should improve by adding the ability to make more customizations."

"I would like to see more macros provided by the company included in the license."

"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."

"The discoverability of documents could be improved."

"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."

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"OneDrive is a bit behind competing products like Dropbox and Box."

"There are not enough ways to assign permissions to shared folders and files."

"The technical support is really very bad."

"The file structure insight could be made more flexible like for creating more flexible folders."

"I would advice not storage sensitive information since it could be prone to hacking."

"The initial setup is not easy."

"If I want to pick out certain criteria of pictures, Google enables me to do that whereas OneDrive is a bit sort of flaky."

"The scalability has room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For us, it's free to use. We don't pay any licensing."

"We have to pay licensing fees."

"The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons."

"We have a site license for Atlassian Confluence and there are some limitations on external users."

"Pricing wise, it ends up being an expensive solution. In the beginning it's cheap, but by the time you have all the functions you need, it turns out to be expensive."

"Confluence charges an extra fee for analytics."

"There is a license needed to use Atlassian Confluence."

"There is an annual license."

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"OneDrive comes with Microsoft 365 so it is just an added part of that package."

"The price of Microsoft OneDrive is reasonable and compatible with competitors."

"This is a pricy solution, given that we are only using it at 50% capacity."

"Using this software, it has had an amazing impact moneywise on our business. It allows us to share documents without the need of extra hardware."

"It is free if you are using Office 365, and you get a terabyte of storage with your account."

"Costwise, it is a great option. In most cases, it is a free space, which will be more than enough for most customers."

"The licensing is expensive and on a yearly basis."

"We pay a lot for the Enterprise version, but it is a premium service."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

73%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

54%

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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?

What do you like most about Microsoft OneDrive?

The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again.

What needs improvement with Microsoft OneDrive?

It takes too long for OneDrive to synchronize various applications, especially when you are saving office data. It also requires too much bandwidth.

What is your primary use case for Microsoft OneDrive?

We use OneDrive to share documents throughout the organization and collaborate. It is also used for backups.

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Also Known As

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Overview

Project management is easy with Atlassian's Confluence as your single source of truth. It integrates with JIRA so you can easily add context to your projects in one central location. Create and track issues & product requirements, publish release reports, track release progress, and more when you connect Confluence and JIRA. Confluence allows you to create, share, evolve, and capture your team's project documentation so you can collaborate better, smarter, and as a team.

Confluence also organizes your powerful repository of information, opinions, and knowledge to help you answer questions, create how-to docs, and possibly identify the next big thing. Logical and consistent management of knowledge and a powerful search engine ensure that you can always find the right content, when you need it most. Share, organize, and discover content all in one platform.

Confluence has multiple deployment options to provide the flexibility your organization needs.

Cloud is a fully hosted service for customers who want to iterate quickly and have us take care of managing the infrastructure.

For customers who need to run our applications behind their firewall, we have Server and Data Center options. Server delivers greater capacity for a larger user base and gives you more control, allowing you to remain compliant with your enterprise IT, security, IP and privacy policies. For our largest customers, Data Center provides all the capability of our Server option, along with high availability, instant scalability and performance at scale.

Atlassian also offers premium support and strategic services for enterprise customers. Technical Account Managers are cross-functional technical advisors providing proactive planning and strategic guidance across your organization. Premier Support goes above and beyond our standard offerings to give you account-wide support from a team of senior support engineers.

Atlassian

Microsoft OneDrive for Business gives you online storage that works seamlessly with the tools you use every day to create, communicate, and collaborate from your PC/Mac or your iOS, Android, or Windows device.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

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

Chevron, Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, DBS, Nestle, Lowe's, MGM Resorts, Textron, MGM Resorts

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