The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft SharePoint, and provide the capabilities, strengths and limitations of each tool for varied business needs.

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Confluence vs SharePoint compared
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Contents
 Purpose
 Disclaimer
 Overview
 Key features
 Summary

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Purpose
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of
Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft SharePoint, and provide the
capabilities, strengths and limitations of each tool for varied
business needs.
Disclaimer:
Information provided in this document is for reference use only. Information in this document is prepared based
on prior projects experience, Confluence.com, Microsoft.com, and web research. The information in this
document does not guaranty full accuracy of the items explained. For any questions or concerns please contact
Nagaraj Yerram at nyerram@netpeach.com

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An overview
SharePoint Confluence
SharePoint is the business collaboration platform
for the Enterprise and the Internet. It enables
employees in an enterprise to work with other
people, share content and information, or line-of-
business data in a seamless manner. SharePoint
comes with rich set of out-of-the-box integrated
capabilities for most enterprise functions, and also
provides the tools and gadgets to customize for the
extensive business needs.
Atlassian Confluence is the evolution of wikis
designed to perform as an online collaboration
and, document management product. Using
Confluence connect your entire business in one
place online to collaborate and capture knowledge
– create, share, and discuss your documents, ideas,
minutes, and projects. Confluence is an easy-to-
use, user friendly and powerful tool.

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Key features
Feature/Context SharePoint Confluence
On-premise and Cloud
offering
Offers both. Part of Office 365 offerings. There are third party
cloud offerings apart from Microsoft. Cloud plans start at $5
/user/month.
Offers both. Cloud offer costs ~ $2000 /2000 users /
month.
https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing
Supported browsers Supports all major browsers Supports all major browsers.
(https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-
platforms-207488198.html)
Mobile support Can be accessed through mobile browsers. Can be accessed through mobile browsers.
On-Premise Platforms
supported:
Windows Sever OS Supports window, Linux, and Solaris.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-
platforms-207488198.html
Scalability Can be scalable Can be scalable
Pros - SharePoint is a robust platform on which you can build on to
suit your business needs.
- SharePoint offers a wide range of possibilities as an integration
platform, and comes with plenty of
options/templates/Workflows to suit most complex business
problems.
- SharePoint custom lists/libraries to capture any kind of
information.
- Confluence is an easy-to-use, user friendly and powerful
tool.
- Confluence Dashboard lets you practically browse
through all the information on your portal.
- On premise version supports multiple platforms.
Cons Sharepoint's out of the box user interface is not as intuitive as
Confluence. Needs some user training. SharePoint 2013 version
has improved UI.
- Limited with Document management and wikis.
- Lack of Custom list and Libraries to collect any kind of
information.

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Summary
Confluence and SharePoint two separate platforms for different purposes which do
share similar functionality in some aspects. Both the tools are based on completely
different technology. Great advantage of Confluence is easy-to-use, whereas
SharePoint lets you design/build easy-to-use portal. Both the tools offer lots of options
and choices.
Both Confluence and SharePoint are good alternatives for intranets. To make the
choice, the most important thing is to first crystallize what you want from your
intranet. What will it be used for? For an intranet concept combining published pages
and documents, news, collaboration and social features, Confluence might be the more
user-friendly option. For an Intranet do lot more than publishing news and manage
documents, such as business process developments, application integrations, BI and
reporting services, etc. SharePoint might be a better option.

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