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

"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."

"Users can create tables and directly pull all Jira tickets into a Tableau format."

"The most valuable features are hyper-linking, the Drawing Tool, and enhanced tables."

"The best feature is the automatic tagging of information in documents. The automatic algorithm highlights irrelevant information that conflict with the actual documents."

"Document collaboration is the most valuable aspect of the solution."

"The search functionality is a really powerful feature."

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

"The initial setup is very easy."

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"With this solution, the sharing of documents if very easy to do. There's a lot of collaboration you can do with your colleagues."

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

"One of the good features is that the users are not even aware that they're using it."

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

"Ability to share documents."

"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that Microsoft OneDrive works with any Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office app. You can edit a document on the cloud, share documents with your colleagues, and monitor changes. You can access your work almost anywhere. You can also sync Microsoft OneDrive with your workstation so that whatever you are working on gets automatically backed up to the cloud at regular intervals. So even if your system crashes, you still have a copy of your documents in the cloud, which I found very useful."

"The most valuable feature is to be able to modify the file online and keep it stored on the cloud, since it is not necessary to download it to make modifications."

"Being able to use OneDrive as a mapped drive in Windows Explorer is the most valuable feature. Rather than using OneDrive on a browser, you can also open up the Windows Explorer and I can see the file structure in the normal format."

More Microsoft OneDrive pros

Cons

"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."

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

"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."

"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."

"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."

"This is kind of by design, however, the lack of control in terms of editing the page to make it look the way you want it to look is an issue. It would be nice if there was more flexibility there."

"Space maintenance could be made a little more user-friendly."

"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."

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"The security is not as flexible as it is with Dropbox, which means that we can't share our OneDrive files."

"The user interface could be a little more intuitive."

"An online video player would be great, since sometimes you have to download the video to play it."

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

"The initial setup is a bit clunky."

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

"Technical support is not very impressive and is typical of large company software support."

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

More Microsoft OneDrive cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have to pay licensing fees."

"The Confluence pricing is good. The only challenge we have experienced is with Jira and the add ons we use that need to be paid for separately."

"When you purchase this solution you get some support."

"This is a very expensive solution."

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

"Maybe we're only using 10% of it, but we have to pay for everything."

"The price of the on-premises data center version is too expensive."

"I am using the paid version. My company has purchased it for company employees. We are using Confluence as a company. I don't know how much it costs, but its price is good enough. Its price is not so high."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

71%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

50%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

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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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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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