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Atlassian Confluence vs OpenText Vibe comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
109
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Enterprise Social Software (3rd), Knowledge Management Software (2nd)
OpenText Vibe
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Intranet (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Atlassian Confluence is designed for Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) and holds a mindshare of 15.4%, up 13.3% compared to last year.
OpenText Vibe, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Intranet, holds 6.6% mindshare, up 5.9% since last year.
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Atlassian Confluence15.4%
SharePoint21.6%
Drupal16.6%
Other46.4%
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
Enterprise Intranet Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Vibe6.6%
SharePoint23.0%
Jive9.5%
Other60.9%
Enterprise Intranet
 

Featured Reviews

Talha Hussain. - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Manage projects effectively with seamless task tracking and integration, but deployment requires familiarity
We are conducting all our project management using Atlassian tools. We use Atlassian Confluence for task management, reporting, visualization of tasks, and reviewing the progress of tickets and work I use Atlassian Confluence for task management and other project management tasks, such as…
it_user996663 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist in Laboratory at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The speed of opening files and folders is too slow and can be very frustrating
It's relatively easy to create folders or workspaces. It's just cumbersome because the files and folders take a while to open. So that's the only issue I have. The rest of the solution is relatively user friendly. The deployment is relatively fast. From creating a brand new workspace to actually using it can be done within a day, depending on how complex it is. I know within our organization they are basically forcing us now to move away from our servers to Vibe. That started in July and there has been a significant change over to Vibe. So it's still new but for a big organization like ours, it's actually impressive how quickly people moved over to Vibe. We did the installation and deployment ourselves and, as an end user, it's been relatively user friendly. It doesn't take long to get familiar with the program, and if you know how it works, it becomes relatively easy to set up a workspace and save documents and edit it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The productiveness of creating and improving documentation is phenomenal once you get Confluence set up and define a few guidelines on how pages should look, be interlinked, and how to generally use the tool."
"I use Atlassian Confluence for task management and other project management tasks, such as reporting, visualization of tasks, tracking the progress of tickets, and understanding how work is progressing."
"The solution offers a lot of freedom when drafting directly online."
"Confluence is the BEST wiki on the market."
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"Overall, I love the ability to quickly upload and preview documents."
"The structure of spaces, pages and child pages allows an easy way to structure content in a way which suits our business."
"The sharing of information and simple formatting are valuable features. That is, there are no templates, and everything uses one format. This means that people don't need to worry about formatting."
"There were no stability issues; it just works."
"It's relatively easy to create folders or workspaces."
"HTML and JSP elements are the most valuable features."
"Our end users find great value in building team workspaces to collaborate not only with internal employees, but with third-party consultants and customers as required."
"What I like most about this solution, is the fact that I can access it anywhere and customize it to my needs."
"The features that I found most useful were being able to see who made changes to a document, where the document was in the chain of command, and being able to leave comments to make the process more collaborative."
"We were able to centralize all customer data: files, discussions and technical notes."
 

Cons

"There is a significant difference between the data center version and the cloud version of Confluence. Providing the same features in both versions would be beneficial."
"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"When we have a project that we don't want to share with everybody but want people to know that it exists, there is no way to do this in Confluence. When a project is not shared, people cannot see that it exits."
"Maybe we're only using 10% of it, but we have to pay for everything."
"When you are creating a table in Confluence, there is no tool to export it into Excel sheet for quick references. We can only export it as an a PDF file, but not into an editable file."
"There is no concept of peer review or a draft mode - whatever you write is live."
"The user interface is a little bit stale."
"Some aspects of the drawing perspective could be improved."
"One thing that really needs to improve, is opening files or folders. It takes much longer than when you are getting it to Windows Explorer on the desktop."
"The end user experience could be improved; some functions are a little too complicated for the average user."
"The user interface can be changed to 'look' more like a Microsoft one since this will help market the product more."
"The following issues need some attention: better integration with MS Office suite, more flexibility in customizing the colors and themes, custom forms and workflows are powerful, but the interface needs revamping to be easier to work with."
"The speed of opening files is too slow and should be increased."
"You have to press the BACK button at least three times till it will go back to the previous page. This is something that must be improved."
"While we were working on implementing this product, the entire system crashed and we had to reinstall it from a previous version."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing wise, it ends up being an expensive solution. In the beginning it's cheap, but by the time you have all the functions you need, it turns out to be expensive."
"We pay $350 a month to use the solution."
"The price of the on-premises data center version is too expensive."
"We have to pay licensing fees."
"Licenses are quite expensive"
"Making integration with other tools easier would be beneficial."
"The Confluence pricing is good. The only challenge we have experienced is with Jira and the add ons we use that need to be paid for separately."
"Maybe we're only using 10% of it, but we have to pay for everything."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise54
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlassian Confluence?
Money is a factor because Atlassian Confluence is not free. I need to purchase extra components when adding new projects or employees.
What needs improvement with Atlassian Confluence?
Much of the room for improvement lies not with the tool itself but with how people are using it. In many cases where we have had issues, it has been based on the lack of structure. The company usin...
What is your primary use case for Atlassian Confluence?
We are using Jira as an asset management and ticketing system along with Confluence. We have significant portions of the Atlassian system implemented. Atlassian Confluence is used as a Wiki for Jir...
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Also Known As

Confluence
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