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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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Since last award

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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.

+90 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

6% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Respectful
Helps Innovate

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Document Hosting

Document Sharing

Security and Access Control

Access Tracking

Version Control

Metrics and Reporting

Searchability

Editor Functions

Publication Workflow

Indexing and Classification

Check Out Check in

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

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Score 9.3

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Score 9.0

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Score 8.8

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Confluence Reviews

Airton O.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Content and workflow management.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Teams can collaborate on projects, set deadlines, and track each other using Confluence. Search engines, page archiving, and hierarchical page trees are simplified. To make the information more alive, you can use themes and personalize them with your own touches, such as GIFs, photos and videos. With popular programs and platforms like Jira, Team Calendars, and Trello, you can power Pages.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like Confluence has great capabilities to: Deploy on-premises and in the cloud. Employees can write content, meeting notes, product specifications, and research reports using the editing tool. Allows you to go to documents and comment on them. In one place, you can publish, organize and access company information. Content editing options are available. Images and videos can be added to documents, text can be organized in blocks or tables, and critical comments can be highlighted.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Confluence is expensive for small businesses.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For the following, I recommend Confluence: To create pages, collaborate with team members, and keep track of all your tasks in one place. You can create a knowledge base and use it to provide customers with quick answers and automate the processes behind all project plans.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Ilana S.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Retail
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Easy to use but not very fancy

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

It makes communication between different teams seamless. Passing knowledge along is incredibly easy.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

How I can find information from all around the company in one place.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I dislike how few features Confluence has, its very bare bones from my perspective.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Make sure you need it before you get it, I think workfront is better honestly.

Pros

Effective Service
Acts with Integrity
Appreciates Incumbent Status
Helps Innovate

Cons

Wastes Time
Less Efficient Service
Less Generous

Alejandro P.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Great to create a knowledge Database

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Confluence from other similar products?

Easy to manage and share contents with others inside the company

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Is easy to use and easy to create documentation

What do you dislike most about this product?

It could be have an easy integration with sharepoint, in order to create workflows or integrate confluence with actual workflows

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

First you need to understand the needs of the business and see if confluence is what you need, because it is great to do a wiki internal for your company and if that you need, will work great

Pros

Transparent
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

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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

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Confluence?

Pros

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Airton O.

Content and workflow management.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ilana S.

Easy to use but not very fancy

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Alejandro P.

Great to create a knowledge Database

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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