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The visual collaboration system that often works well
What do you like best about the product?
There are many varieties of layout templates for Confluence. We can use it for our primary departmental business activities or more miscellaneous needs we have for company-wide events. The designs of many of the project templates are often makes it easy to see and digest the information. We can add text, grids and graphics to help organize our information in a way that can boost engagement.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think Confluence has mostly worked well but it's not really a collaboration system that can be used for deeper project management needs with layered activities and dependencies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Confluence has helps for team members to plot out project activities, lay out event agendas, and to generally list ideas that each member can comment on. We can have detailed discussions that are backed with resources we can attach to the project. We don't have to meet at a set time as much since we can all log in and interact at any time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I'd just try to search for a project template that closely meets your project needs as much as possible to avoid having to fiddle around too much with the layout.
The best workflow tool for a product development company
What do you like best about the product?
I have explored Confluence on my own. Designed the workflow for our documentation structure and designed it in such a way that it falls into our document development life cycle process. The best part about Confluence is it's very much user friendly and easy to learn. We had a discussion group where questions come to us go with a positive answer. Our business analysts are quite happy once they got used to Confluence's workflow. Write, review, publish that's the goal and its as easy as our day to day work.
I personally liked it, what about you?
I personally liked it, what about you?
What do you dislike about the product?
I personally do not have any dislike for this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem with our system was to define a workflow to suit our requirement which Confluence has sort out. Moreover it made our life easy, when the work is done we get the notification to move it for further action. Instead of complications it made our life easy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its easy to use. You can go for it if you are looking for a proper workflow tool.
Arrogant customer service - they don't listen
What do you like best about the product?
New editor is pretty slick and fast for basic pages
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of functionality has been removed from the editor. If you're making complex documentation pages, it's not a good choice.
The product management team come across as aloof and uncaring. Have a look at their comments (or lack thereof) in this page: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/2019-All-Wrap-ped-Up-Like-a-Present/ba-p/1235288
The product management team come across as aloof and uncaring. Have a look at their comments (or lack thereof) in this page: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/2019-All-Wrap-ped-Up-Like-a-Present/ba-p/1235288
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Team documentation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't use it. Find another solution where the product managers actually care about users.
Used to be good, but now most of the functionality has been removed.
What do you like best about the product?
I used to love Confluence, I wrote most of my pages with wiki markup, but now I'm constantly finding that I just can't do things that were simple in the past.
What do you dislike about the product?
Markup support has been removed
No longer possible to resize tables
Code macro has been removed and replaced with a cutdown version - code snipits
Can't indent text anymore
Have to publish the page before you can put in a link to a heading
The link functionality is greatly reduced and much harder to use
No longer possible to resize tables
Code macro has been removed and replaced with a cutdown version - code snipits
Can't indent text anymore
Have to publish the page before you can put in a link to a heading
The link functionality is greatly reduced and much harder to use
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use confluence for our online documentation, but we are storing more and more in sharepoint now to to the loss of functionality in Confluence
Works great as a source of truth
What do you like best about the product?
Centralized location to store all knowledge articles related to the product and procedures
What do you dislike about the product?
A bit tricky to navigate and libraries continue to split
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using confluence as a source of truth. The benefit is that we can use the confluence link for all resource materials. The negative is that if we paste text into let's say a Google slide, that will not update as the confluence page gets updated. Not that I expect it to update, but it would be nice if we could copy/paste as a live modal in other applications so information only needs to be updated in one place.
Pretty decent collaboration application
What do you like best about the product?
In many cases, Confluence is a complete collaboration application for companies with different page layouts for many different project types. It is a simple and accessible information source, especially for the newcomers and interns. Since it is a cloud-based solution it is also suitable for people who work abroad. It is integration with the Jira software works beautifully.
What do you dislike about the product?
You have to pay for even for the simplest plugin in the market (like gif support). Table creation and editing are also not as detailed (customizable) as in the MS Excel. And their server goes down from time to time. I've lost some of my typing because of this issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can work on a single file with many people meaning we can edit/add the opinions of many people in a single file at the same time. We are also communicating during our Confluence writing sessions. We can see the changes immediately and comment on things before publishing them. It is also easier to do version-control with the Confluence. We can easily go back to an older version if we dislike something.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Confluence makes things easier for companies especially for people who work abroad. The version control feature is detailed enough and works pretty decent. Its support of Latex also another plus for people who like to write in Latex. It can be also used for a reliable information storage since it is a cloud-based solution.
Great tool for document collaborating and with team members
What do you like best about the product?
I love the collaboration feature. Sharing ideas by providing web document URL to team members. Getting their input and uploading files for sharing as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't require a lot of training however I do recommend you spend at least 5-10min looking at free online training videos to see all the supported things with Confluence
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
File sharing. Creating documents and sharing my ideas with team members for their feedback
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great tool especially if you are using a lot of other Atlassian products
Incredible collaboration in each business planning
What do you like best about the product?
I believe that the software is really solid in terms of organizing data in one place. It is also important to note that it is very easy to use, its interface is completely intuitive and very bright. It is worth mentioning that it integrates very well with Jira and this has given me benefits in each of my projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not like that the software has deficiencies in terms of the calendar, that is, occasionally it does not respond to my executions in an optimal way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this product in order to maintain a solid database to document the most important files of the company. In turn, we can build project requirements so that customers can see the advantages we have. It has really been very helpful for collaboration and information management.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This software is highly recommended. You will have at your disposal a multipurpose tool, with an important capacity for collaboration to keep everything in optimal conditions in your company. It is customizable and contains large databases to keep the information in one place.
Confluence usage for a Tech Product company
What do you like best about the product?
The software suite works amazingly to hold and arrange information in a methodical manner.
Multiple pages, hierarchical structure and links within pages is a must have when there is a lot of interconnected information to be shared across teams.
Also, Confluence has some neat integrations with other apps, like Draw.io etc which allow the user to not having to switch apps to access information.
jira and Confluence work pretty nicely hand in hand, and that's how we have been using it.
Multiple pages, hierarchical structure and links within pages is a must have when there is a lot of interconnected information to be shared across teams.
Also, Confluence has some neat integrations with other apps, like Draw.io etc which allow the user to not having to switch apps to access information.
jira and Confluence work pretty nicely hand in hand, and that's how we have been using it.
What do you dislike about the product?
A few things I dislike are
1. The new Page edit interface is not really an upgrade on the previous page edit interface. They have cut down on a few features which were of quite a lot of use.
2. A soon as slightly heavy media is uploaded on a Page, the page gets really non-responsive and hard to use.
1. The new Page edit interface is not really an upgrade on the previous page edit interface. They have cut down on a few features which were of quite a lot of use.
2. A soon as slightly heavy media is uploaded on a Page, the page gets really non-responsive and hard to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We as a Hardware Product company use Confluence to manage and store all technical information for the Systems, as well as sub systems.
We have Team dedicated pages, where specific teams can publish all the new developments, test results, datasheets, as well as documentation for code-bases.
This helps immensely to bridge the information gap between multiple teams.
We have Team dedicated pages, where specific teams can publish all the new developments, test results, datasheets, as well as documentation for code-bases.
This helps immensely to bridge the information gap between multiple teams.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Confluence is a good tool to be used when you have multiple teams working on information which is essential to all teams, as it brings transparency as well as ease of use together in a very streamlined manner.
Improve Quality work using Confluence
What do you like best about the product?
It helps for in Webinars. The documentation made by this is excellent. And ofcourse, the mobile version is perfect.
What do you dislike about the product?
The editor of confluence behaviour is quite terrible. When we scroll the page down, unfortunately we just went to edit page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The templates are customised. We can track our milestones and Idea management.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great plateform to set the company's milestones and achieve the same using smart work and constant resource management.
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