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light weight Best collaboration tool of the current generation
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about confluence is the light weight social platform.
one if the best feature i liked is meeting notes. very crisp and time saving feature.
others include the collaboration and discussion forums.
good to discuss items on official forum and get constructive output.
chatting feature adds beauty on top of all.
one if the best feature i liked is meeting notes. very crisp and time saving feature.
others include the collaboration and discussion forums.
good to discuss items on official forum and get constructive output.
chatting feature adds beauty on top of all.
What do you dislike about the product?
Confluence dashboards can be beautified a little bit.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we do a lot of team collaboration on this tool. this saves a lot of time over meetings and disruptive discussions.
helps quickly put further ideas that might be missed in personal discussions.
keeps track of all discussions hence solutioning becomes easy.
helps quickly put further ideas that might be missed in personal discussions.
keeps track of all discussions hence solutioning becomes easy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a very light tool with loads of features. installation and setup is very fast.
plug in and plug out easily.
one of the best collaboration tool you can think of.
plug in and plug out easily.
one of the best collaboration tool you can think of.
Workhorse wiki/documentation product
What do you like best about the product?
Confluence makes it easy to document processes and procedures. Though documentation isn't always an enjoyable activity, making it simple for people means that it's more likely to get done, and done well.
I personally document rather extensively and I appreciate the ease with which I'm able to format my writing from the keyboard through keystroke actions or macros, without having to switch to a mouse.
I personally document rather extensively and I appreciate the ease with which I'm able to format my writing from the keyboard through keystroke actions or macros, without having to switch to a mouse.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't anything notable about this product that I dislike. I use it on a daily basis and the only thing that I find annoying is that sometimes search results don't seem to be ordered by the relevance I would have expected. That may be perception on my part or a configuration decision made by the administrators. Either way, it's a minor thing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Confluence to manage our internal wiki and documentation, and as a document repository. Over my 30 years in IT, I've found that one of the most difficult things to accomplish is to get people to write documentation. Confluence makes writing and editing documents easy enough that the "It's too hard or time consuming" excuse just doesn't fly. I'm not saying that writing docs is fun, but if you can make it less dreary the reluctance goes away, and we have a robust repository of knowledge to refer to.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I'd suggest really digging into the full capabilities the product offers. It integrates well and has a lot to offer besides just being a knowledge base management tool,
Confluence for Requirements Management
What do you like best about the product?
I have learned that there are many plug-ins that help accomplish the things we need to do, such as tractability to Jira and Approvals
What do you dislike about the product?
Much of what we do requires manual intervention
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Requirements management
The best project documentation system I ever used.
What do you like best about the product?
Its seamless integration with Jira and the components it has to build different kind of documents. It has templates to create Retrospective meetings, Tasks Reports, etc. On the same note, it allows you to use and create your own templates.
Spaces are ways to separate different environments for documents and the permission model is the same as Jira, allowing you to configure the access at different levels.
One small thing that I like is that you can embed a Jira report inside a document, as well as different reports, allowing you to communicate with data taken directly from Jira.
Spaces are ways to separate different environments for documents and the permission model is the same as Jira, allowing you to configure the access at different levels.
One small thing that I like is that you can embed a Jira report inside a document, as well as different reports, allowing you to communicate with data taken directly from Jira.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is something that I dislike but I understand is something very common on these licensing models is that everything is tied to the Jira licenses, meaning that if you pay for 100 Jira licenses but only 20 uses Confluence, you pay for 100 Confluence licenses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm solving the problem of sharing information within a project and the need to communicate progress in a project lifecycle. Also, be able to control the access of those documents across the project and company.
The benefits were clear during the project, by having a place to store all the knowledge we built in the team and with the client. Also, when problems arise, storing the meeting summaries and documenting decisions in the tool has proven to be fundamental to reach to agreements.
The benefits were clear during the project, by having a place to store all the knowledge we built in the team and with the client. Also, when problems arise, storing the meeting summaries and documenting decisions in the tool has proven to be fundamental to reach to agreements.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you suffered from not having a place to store the information you build on a project and after a year you need to find information to resolve a conflict, having a document repository such as this is critical.
Its easy of use and features allows you to have a quick climbing of the learning curve.
Its easy of use and features allows you to have a quick climbing of the learning curve.
Friendly Structured Information Portal
What do you like best about the product?
Simple user interface that is easy to navigate but has all of the information you need easily accessible.
Easily share pages with individuals or groups, allowing them to receive updates as you modify data within them.
The ability to group data into different "Spaces" to prevent any one area from getting cluttered and overflowing information.
Familiar functions within page creation that resemble Office applications allowing you to easily and quickly work within a page.
The ability to add attachments such as PDF, XLS, DOC, etc to a page allowing you to launch it straight away.
Easily share pages with individuals or groups, allowing them to receive updates as you modify data within them.
The ability to group data into different "Spaces" to prevent any one area from getting cluttered and overflowing information.
Familiar functions within page creation that resemble Office applications allowing you to easily and quickly work within a page.
The ability to add attachments such as PDF, XLS, DOC, etc to a page allowing you to launch it straight away.
What do you dislike about the product?
If many updates are done to a single page or multiple pages within a short amount of time and you are subscribed to the page(s) then your inbox will be flooded with email updates vs a summary e-mail sent out in intervals or something similar.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This has allowed all of us in IT to "archive" our knowledge on the tasks we do on a day to day basis (procedures, phone numbers, contact information, task lists, etc) in an easily browsable central location, This comes in handy especially if someone is out sick or on vacation, allowing us to at least "limp" along so to say, and get someone up and running vs making them wait until the person is back.
The personal spaces are especially handy for things such as notes, to do lists, etc for your own personal use. Being very absent minded this does act as a reminder on what I need to do and a good way to double check I performed all of the steps.
The personal spaces are especially handy for things such as notes, to do lists, etc for your own personal use. Being very absent minded this does act as a reminder on what I need to do and a good way to double check I performed all of the steps.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a simple but powerful portal / collaboration tool. It is simple to use, but has many many tools for your use. Allowing you to create groups for everyone, yourself, or just certain individuals so everyone who needs to be kept in the loop with certain things is updated when changes are made or new items are created.
Outstanding knowledge sharing tool for small-to-mid sized businesses
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to move articles from space to space means your team can continue to organize (and reorganize) your content library as it grows and matures. The article editing feature allows for many different versatile layouts, including tables of content.
What do you dislike about the product?
I sometimes wish the editing featured easier insertion of styled code blocks
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a central, organized place for all of our company's information now, something that's a huge step up from disparate Google / Office docs and EOL products like Backpack.
I have serveral instanses of Confluence, both for own busiensses and for a community
What do you like best about the product?
The entry level agreement of 10 users only costs 10 USD per year if you choose to host it your own server, which is how I use it. Since we host Confluence on our servers we can feel safe, that our data is in our own hands and in-house. Confluence is also easy to setup and maintain. It's also easy for the users, since it's all point-and-click. It's also well organized with "spaces". You can grant permission these spaces to specific users and give them specific role. These roles can then be very detailed, what each role is allowed to do in each space.
What do you dislike about the product?
The GUI can feel a bit slow from time to time, certainly on slower computers. The mobile interface is a bit limited but works very well if you just want to access your data on the go. We actually use the mobile interface quite a lot on meetings, where we sometimes need quick access to documents and protocols.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instead of having to e-mail Word documents back and forth, we can now all collaborate on a central document in the browser, without the need for any additional software such as Microsoft Office or LibreOffice.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As always, take your time to get to know the system. Also setup a playing-ground (space) for your users so that they can tinker and play around with it. Everything is version controlled however, so if a user should mess up a document, no worries, just rewind to a previous version.
Your own wiki in a few minutes! Great collaboration tool!
What do you like best about the product?
The ease to deploy on cloud (hosted by Atlassian) or install by yourself and start using is incredible! You will take just some minutes to do so. You just need to decide which one is better for your business. Both ways are very easy. Confluence software is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
The documentation is pretty complete, since installation till advanced configuration. There are all wiki features available plus some improvements like being able to create a blank page based on templates, export/import functions (doc/pdf), attach files, comments, etc.
The wiki is divided in spaces and you can create pages inside each space. This is useful because you can build differents wikis based in diferrent subjects.
Looking to the administration tools, you have several native options to personalize your environment such as self sign-up, password policy, user groups, permissions, themes, layouts and plugins (add-ons).
There are also others softwares from Atlassian that are able to integrate to Confluence to mix/improve functionalities such as Team Calendars and JIRA Software.
The documentation is pretty complete, since installation till advanced configuration. There are all wiki features available plus some improvements like being able to create a blank page based on templates, export/import functions (doc/pdf), attach files, comments, etc.
The wiki is divided in spaces and you can create pages inside each space. This is useful because you can build differents wikis based in diferrent subjects.
Looking to the administration tools, you have several native options to personalize your environment such as self sign-up, password policy, user groups, permissions, themes, layouts and plugins (add-ons).
There are also others softwares from Atlassian that are able to integrate to Confluence to mix/improve functionalities such as Team Calendars and JIRA Software.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not a free version. You just get a trial version for 30 days with limited support. The license costs about $10 for 10 users.
Other fact is that I can't find any translation for portuguese. If language is a problem, is better to check the language packs available first.
Other fact is that I can't find any translation for portuguese. If language is a problem, is better to check the language packs available first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to improve team collaboration during projects development and also to build a knowledge basis to our daily tasks. When comparing to others wiki softwares, Confluence seens to be the most reliable one and with better usability.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the trial version with all features available for 30 days. In this period of time, you can get to know how to use the software and decide your number of users to buy a regular license. Despite of having is a cost, Confluence is already used by many big companies and is very reliable.
I use Confluence at work for documentation
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it works with the Atlassian Suite
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm not such a fan of Confluence to begin with; seems like most of its features can be done in Stash.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Documenting internal practices, codebases, etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I don't really have any recommendations, I think it's an alright program.
From version 4.0, Confluence no longer supports a wiki markup language. This has led to a sometimes-heated discussion from some of the previous versions' (mostly technical) users who regret the change.
In response, Atlassian has provided a source code editor as a plugin, which allows advanced users the ability to edit the underlying XHTML-based document source. However, although the new source markup is XHTML-based, it is not XHTML compliant, so it would more accurately be called XHTML-like XML.
Additionally, wiki markup can be typed into the editor and Confluence's autocomplete and auto-format functionality converts the wiki markup to the new format in real time. After this real-time conversion, content can never be edited as wiki markup again.
A Confluence user has published an XML schema and a DTD for the Confluence 4 storage format. The same user has developed web pages that convert a limited subset of Confluence XML or rich text editor content to wiki markup.
From version 4.0, Confluence no longer supports a wiki markup language. This has led to a sometimes-heated discussion from some of the previous versions' (mostly technical) users who regret the change.
In response, Atlassian has provided a source code editor as a plugin, which allows advanced users the ability to edit the underlying XHTML-based document source. However, although the new source markup is XHTML-based, it is not XHTML compliant, so it would more accurately be called XHTML-like XML.
Additionally, wiki markup can be typed into the editor and Confluence's autocomplete and auto-format functionality converts the wiki markup to the new format in real time. After this real-time conversion, content can never be edited as wiki markup again.
A Confluence user has published an XML schema and a DTD for the Confluence 4 storage format. The same user has developed web pages that convert a limited subset of Confluence XML or rich text editor content to wiki markup.
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