Confluence
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Great for Team building
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing i that we can easily share information and others can also collaborate with that.
What do you dislike about the product?
Just one feature of the real-time chat feature is missing .Other than that, all the other features are available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Confluence, we try to improve Team collaboration and Team building. We put in the common information on confluence. It was like the best practices of code were mentioned so that everybody could easily follow them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good
Not user friendly or intuitive
What do you like best about the product?
There really isn't anything I like about this product.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not user-friendly (from a content management and end-user standpoint) or intuitive. The tutorials offered by Confluence are hard to read/not helpful. It's hard to know whether what I am reading is for the Cloud-based version or not. Plug-ins are expensive. The search does not function well. Confluence roles out changes with little notice that greatly impacts functionality, and look and feel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have to use it as a knowledgebase.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would look into other options.
Confluence is easy, but can get bloated.
What do you like best about the product?
It's relatively accessible to build a knowledgebase on Confluence for your teams to utilize. Things like permissions and restrictions also make it simple to ensure the right people can see and edit content.
What do you dislike about the product?
Without being an admin, it's difficult to get a birds eye view of your content, especially if it isn't set up into proper pages, page trees, child pages, etc. When you generate a lot of pages over time, it can be potentially difficult to manage as a knowledge manager.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Knowledge management for employees, insights into human resources policies, team pages and general resources, corporate information.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Lock down your permissions for the spaces you create in your company's instance of Confluence. KBs can be quickly mismanaged if you have "too many cooks in the kitchen."
Ease of is is great.
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to use and organize information and it is very intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
Notifications could have more custom capability would be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to have team pages to better navigate and point people to the right people.
collaborate on all levels
What do you like best about the product?
I like the concept of confluence and the website
What do you dislike about the product?
there isn't much i don't like its a nice concept
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
collaborate on documents
The market leader in team collaboration software
What do you like best about the product?
Confluence provides a wealth of diversity in the functional capabilities able to be brought to bear by your team. This is not a tool only for software engineers - anyone working in a collaborative environment can benefit from the workspace that Confluence provides. Confluence provides a single point of truth for product, project, program, and portfolio management that is easy to extend to operational handoff and document retention strategy, as well as ongoing schedule management and feature backlog. Confluence also integrates seamlessly with other Atlassian tools, particularly JIRA, making it a great central hub for all of the activities of the team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Confluence has a somewhat steeper learning curve than is probably necessary for its most valuable features. It would benefit from some more user-friendly plugins and a better way to add new functionality from the community. Many new users to Confluence are coming from having relied heavily on Microsoft Office products for a long time, so additional features that could replicate some of the more common functionality of Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project would go a long way in helping new users more familiar with these tools to understand the true value of Confluence.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Confluence extensively across our software and product engineering teams. Generally, Confluence is used to communicate project status, collaborate on engineering problems, and for the documentation of business critical user guides and architecture documents. Confluence helps us ensure that the work being done by all of our resources is maintained in a consistent format, and is easily searchable and retained (with version control!).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would highly recommend using Confluence at any organization, or even for personal projects. It can be scaled to fit whatever team size is needed, and its functionality can be extended in a number of ways as required. I would recommend working with someone from a consulting perspective who can help to provide guidance on how best to use Confluence for the work you are doing on a day-to-day basis.
Searching Function Could Be Better
What do you like best about the product?
Great as a wiki and for documentation use
What do you dislike about the product?
The searching function pulls everything and anything, doesn't provide results by relevance
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Great as a wiki
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great as a wiki
Corporate wikipedia for different audiences
What do you like best about the product?
The side bars, the editing and versioning capability, and the image embedding/attachment functions. Recommended updates digest emails.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be unintuitive for a new user (when a user is added to an organization) to navigate about the site and understand what functionality he/she has access to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to commit to writing a lot of information and knowledge uncovered by development teams as they built and tested features.
We were also able to publish product administration guides to our customers that were available on the web and easy to update.
We were also able to publish product administration guides to our customers that were available on the web and easy to update.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider making all your users take some amount of training before throwing them into Confluence
Share all the knowledge!
What do you like best about the product?
Confluence allows my team to share knowledge about various topics in one place. The organization capabilities are great too, to make it even easier to find different documentation as needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
The navigation is a little tricky to use sometimes. Without streamlined organization of topics, it can be a lot of clicking to find the right page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's basically allowed our team to create various onboarding documents for any new employees that join and to help each other by providing references for the most common topics we deal with each day.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great tool for sharing information within a team. It allows you to organize all information in one place that is accessible by anyone, anywhere.
Great Organizational Tool
What do you like best about the product?
How you are able to create different how to pages for everyone to reference
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the UI was a little easier to navigate on first look through. It takes a while to get used to the way to properly navigate different pages
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Communication and Informational
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