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Confluence

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

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What is Confluence?

Confluence is your remote-friendly team workspace where knowledge and collaboration meet. Confluence turns conversations into action built for lasting knowledge so you never lose great ideas or context in a transient notification or chat. From marketing and sales to development and operations, Confluence has solutions for every type of team and project to get your team doing the real work right away.

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Awards & Recognition

Confluence won the following awards in the Document Management category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

0 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2024

Confluence Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Confluence?

2% Negative

5% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Enables Productivity
Helps Innovate

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Document Hosting

Document Sharing

Security and Access Control

Access Tracking

Version Control

Searchability

Metrics and Reporting

Editor Functions

Publication Workflow

Indexing and Classification

Check Out Check in

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

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Score 9.3

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Project Management - Enterprise

Score 9.0

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Knowledge Management

Score 8.8

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Confluence Reviews

Basil J.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Jul 2023

Deliver good feature set and value for the price

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Workflow automation Efficient search Mobile access

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Files sharing and management of versions Simultaneous editing of documents Easy Document collaboration

What do you dislike most about this product?

Lack of text completion feature Inflexible design Smart commit linking

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is a best suite for documentation with tree structure arrangements gives proper visual to the docs

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Kunal C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Education
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

A great documentation tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

A great documentation product with alot of features like easy integration with JIRA.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy integration with JIRA.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Less customization feature.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Definitely go for it if you are using JIRA or Atlassian products.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Trustworthy
Unique Features
Effective Service

Dhavan M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

One of the best product to manage knowledge base

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Confluence seamlessly integrates with other popular Atlassian tools like Jira, Trello, Bitbucket, and Confluence itself, creating a comprehensive ecosystem for project management, development, and collaboration.Confluence provides a user-friendly editor that allows users to create and edit content easily. It supports various content types such as text, images, videos, tables, files, and macros. Confluence offers a hierarchical organization structure through spaces, pages, and nested pages. Spaces act as containers for related content, and pages can be structured and organized within spaces.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Confluence is a very reliable and robust product for managing a knowledge base. I like the way it provides to manage documents and knowledge in a well-structured manner by providing spaces. I also like the way it provides flexibility to integrate it with JIRA and bit bucket.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I think confluence is a complete product for document management.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would highly recommend confluence to an organization that wants to maintain its knowledge base in the most efficient and well-structured way.

Pros

Generous Negotitation
Transparent
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Confluence Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

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Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Document Hosting Centralized hosting of electronic documents, allowing the ability for contributors to upload to a secure area.

Document Sharing Document sharing is the ability to share a document with those who have not been granted explicit access

Security and Access Control Securing of electronic documents from unauthorized access and the ability to assign access to specific users or user groups.

Access Tracking The tracking of document access, including who had opened it or downloaded it.

Version Control Tracking of document versions with each iteration of document changes.

Searchability DMSes generally allow for the ability to conduct searches on document content.

Metrics and Reporting This feature enables the DMS administrator to produce reports on the DMS, such as document volumes, document access, publication trends, etc.

Editor Functions Features to allow designated editors to have the ability to review a document, make notes, corrections, and insert markups for re-editing by the author(s).

Publication Workflow Workflow capability that routes documents across defined roles in the publication process, either for review, editing, publication, etc.

Indexing and Classification Where the DMS will search the contents of all documents, index search results and organize them based on the organization’s taxonomy

Check Out Check in Similar to checking out or signing out a book from the library, this option enables a similar function for designated documents.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Task Management

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Confluence Reviews

Basil J.

Deliver good feature set and value for the price

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kunal C.

A great documentation tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Dhavan M.

One of the best product to manage knowledge base

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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