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Serves our needs well
What do you like best about the product?
We post articles to our Confluence Wiki, do some collaboration on the items. we use Confluence mostly as a static board for knowledge base items, or to post procedures or how-to's, that sort of thing.
the structure and permissions setup makes it easy to setup knowledge base wiki items for just the teams that care about that data, so we dont clutter up the feed for everyone.
the structure and permissions setup makes it easy to setup knowledge base wiki items for just the teams that care about that data, so we dont clutter up the feed for everyone.
What do you dislike about the product?
the text editor is a bit dated; it would be great if we could use a more modern UI and functionality, something more like Google Docs or that sort of thing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
collaboration online negates the issue of version control or lost files.
Need for Confluence
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it is connected to Jira. I also like the ablility to create jiffy diagrams. The ease of use is pretty simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that you cannot create excel sheets in there with vertical text.. I also don't like all the levels of security. If I create a document, I should be able to delete it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am a Business Analyst that is creating my requirement documents in here. I have to attach my BRDs to Epics in Jira.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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Collaborative Tool for document sharing
What do you like best about the product?
Confluence is a good tool, with a tree folders management, which allows to manage the documentation. It is able also to add comments, to share (or not) some part, and get an history of all modifications.
As this is an "open tool", a lot of goodies are available to make very great documentation.
As the tool can be linked with JIRA, it's easy to include links between all tools of this family, which help a lot to share document - in Confluence - and tasks linked - in Jira.
The presentation, and look and feel of the pages are very good, and nearly as reactive as a Word document.
As this is an "open tool", a lot of goodies are available to make very great documentation.
As the tool can be linked with JIRA, it's easy to include links between all tools of this family, which help a lot to share document - in Confluence - and tasks linked - in Jira.
The presentation, and look and feel of the pages are very good, and nearly as reactive as a Word document.
What do you dislike about the product?
The confluence tool is a good to do documentation, but not to export them in PDF, HTM or DOC format for user not connected to the tool, like third part. Too many export issues are still existing. Moreover, the format of the export is very "light" and can't do a professional export - like a user manual.
The conversion from already existing document - like MS Word - is working good but need manual adjustment.
The conversion from already existing document - like MS Word - is working good but need manual adjustment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The goal is to share information, and to be able to do modification, shared to everyone, with automatic e-mail on any update between stakeholders.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get a better export function, with template, history, summary, header / footer management. to get a professional document export.
Confluence allows your team to document anything related to the project, and even things that aren't
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use is probably my favorite feature for this application. Whether you like to use wiki markup or just stick to Rich Text Formatting it fits your needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
One item that I dislike about Confluence is the irregularity for issues when we do an upgrade. Sometimes the upgrades go fine, sometimes they don't. But when they don't go fine we are usually down for around 4 hours waiting for our team to figure out the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Technical Documentation, Team Discussions, Meeting Notes, Contests, and General Documentation/Communication around the company.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're a startup this is the tool you need to use. If you are not using this tool and have been in the business awhile, why not? This tool does everything you need it to.
Great product
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and organization is great for knowledge management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having to connect with vpn for authentication.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Knowledge management and organization
Great way to collaborate and "get work done!"
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of getting information on a page that everyone can contribute to and see is amazing. I've used Confluence for about 5 years and love it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, when Atlassian pushes a new update, legacy versions are left behind on fixes. Maybe Atlassian could offer more hotfixes/patches instead of forcing a version bump?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With distributed teams, a wiki system like Confluence is a must. It helps to write how-to and document systems so that people, even seasoned members of the team, have a reference point.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take a look at core offerings, and also available plugins. Often, if the core product doesn't have exactly what you want, a plugin will. However, be wary of plugins that are not maintained; as they may marry you to a specific version of Confluence. In those cases, if you upgrade and the plugin has not been modified to work with the new version of Confluence, the plugin will break.
Confluence review
What do you like best about the product?
Sharing the task with multiple members in the team at same time.
What do you dislike about the product?
I believe the front end is overloaded with lot of content. This leads to extra time to load things on screen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building front end templates for insurance clients.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The software satisfy the basic functionality what it claims to offer. However as earlier suggested working for making the front end light weight would be of much help.
Solid product for workplace Wiki
What do you like best about the product?
Good, solid editing tools and integration with Agile Jira for scrum and kanban make this product a winner.
What do you dislike about the product?
The spaces are pretty handy but I find that if you're not very proactive about making sure you add in links, it becomes unused as people revert back to throwing a bunch of documents on a page without really taking the time to structure and sort.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Workplace wiki, task tracking and problem resolution when used in conjunction with Agile Jira.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Works well if you're also using other atlassian products, like JIRA. This product really seems designed for a large organization, as I currently work in one, this seems like the target market. For small business, I think that this is a bit too heavy and requires a bit too much management for a feature set that most users will never make full use of.
Great tool for sharing and maintaining documentation and processes
What do you like best about the product?
The add-ins for things like flow charts are really nice, as is the WYSIWYG formatter for content pages. The ability to sort content unlimited levels deep is also really helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no way (that I've found) to bulk modify content pages (through find-replace, etc), nor is there an easy way to migrate between platforms. The jump in license pricing from 10 users to 11 users is also quite huge.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluence makes it easy to share and maintain documentation across a company. Using it helps reduce the amount of information that only one person is aware of.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be aware of the huge jump in licensing costs from 10 users to 11.
I used this tool for sharing status of development tasks and it was doing good
What do you like best about the product?
I like the feature of Sharing the status of development tasks to multiple users and groups.
What do you dislike about the product?
I did not find any issues while using this tool so far
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
was able to share the status of development tasks and it was doing good
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