Confluence

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Confluence simplifies quick browsing of important pages and efficient sorting of information. It excels at creating a clear path for knowledge sharing between team members. I love the fact that it fosters collaboration, creates versatile tracking methods, and always has open channels for feedback, which helps manage our knowledge base and create and document reports.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best thing about Confluence is the card system, where any member can create a card with tasks and send it to members to ensure it is updated and documented as required. I love the tagging and commenting features, which enhance our understanding of the content within each card. I also like the ease of creating forms and reports, and the ease of sharing them and documenting comments on them.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There are no downsides to Confluence, it's easy to learn and surprisingly useful.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend Confluence as it greatly improves the knowledge base and delivers impressive results to any team that takes advantage of its features as required.

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Confluence remains an easy to use, feature rich document and knowledge management platform that continually improves but always leaves something to be desires in the editing experience that makes me wish I were in Google Docs.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love easy of organization of the docs, the life-saving version history and the ever improving ability to format different types of content like tables and lists.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I still find the editing experience clunky, less intuitive and less attractive than Google Docs, but it's so much better than it used to be a few years ago.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It really makes sense at an enterprise scale and even smaller and if you're using Jira, it's a great integrated compliment.

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Since its from Atlassian which already has a Jira for issue tracking and project management and is very popular especially for engineering teams and since it has nice integration with Jira and engineering team has lot of documents(design documents, notes, knowledge articles) to manage, which requires good RTE(rich text editor) and also works a lot with Jira, so it works great for the software teams to manage their project documents.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

In the document, you can easily collaborate also by commenting and resolving them, this is used by my team for the design document which goes through various edits based on the comments and suggestion by other team members.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Atlassian products search in general is not good, whether its searching for issues in Jira or searching for relevant document in Confluence, in jira, you can still use JQL and save it but Confluence is like a website and its full text search lots of time doesn't bring the fresh and relevant search results.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

if you are already using Jira than go for Confluence but if you are not using jira, have some comparison and ask other team members of other document management software and take their feedback before finalising anything as this is difficult to change later.