Confluence 10 Reasons To Use Confluence

1. Features you won't find elsewhere.

Confluence has a unique combination of features that you will just not find in other wikis:

  • Fine grained security with space and page level permissions.
  • Spaces allow you to easily have multiple linked wikis.
  • Create a blog in every space with 'News'.
  • Pages, comments, blogs and attachments are all searchable.
  • Email integration, refactoring, PDF exporting, and more...
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2. It... just... works.

We believe life is too short to punish yourself by using difficult, complicated, over-priced enterprise software.

We think Confluence is simply the best wiki in existence, and so do our customers.

"One of the most important aspects was the willingness of all staff to use Confluence to capture knowledge. The general consensus was that the process was addictive."
Adam Kierce - Shine Technologies (more testimonials...)

3. Fair, upfront licensing policy.

You won't find any 'contact us for a price' forms here. We passionately believe in our fair, upfront licensing policy. Confluence's upfront licensing scheme ensures that all your costs are known in advance.

Find out more about how group-based licensing, source code access, 12 months of free upgrades and legendary support make Confluence compelling case on the licensing page >>

4. Battle tested by the world's corporations.

Confluence is used by organisations in over 81 countries across Fortune 1000, public enterprise, academic and technology sectors.

"Any new tool requires some degree of training and guidance before staff catch on, but Confluence was so easy and intuitive that it took off in no time."
Paul Rene Jorgensen - Telenor. (more testimonials...)

Companies large and small have benefitted from Confluence's ease of use and simple but powerful approach to collaboration and knowledge management.

View our customer list, read user testimonials and download in-depth case studies. >>

5. Your information, your way.

Different users use Confluence in different ways:

  • Collaborate with team members in geographically dislocated offices with Confidence.
  • Use Confluence as an intranet - it's never been easier to publish or find information with powerful and comprehensive indexing.
  • Replace your share drives - store and search documents centrally so that your team can always access the latest information.
  • Search everything - spaces, pages, blogs, attachments and even team email - to find the information you need rapidly.
  • Monitor project or company developments with page and space watching.

These users all have different needs. Confluence allows them to organise their information to suit these needs. Our security and adminstration features allow them to configure the system to suit their individual teams.

6. Easily customisable and extensible.

Confluence is very extensible and interoperable. It is, quite simply, the most extensible wiki available.

"When we tested the trial version of Confluence, we could see there were endless possibilities for customisation"
Paul Rene Jorgensen - Telenor (more testimonials...)

The Confluence Development Hub can help you to customise, extend and integrate Confluence into your organisation's systems.

Learn more about our open development philosophy >>

7. Legendary Service.

Atlassian's support is legendary, just ask our customers. We believe that legendary support is part of a legendary product, and all our support staff have extensive knowledge of Confluence.

"I have never dealt with a company that really does deliver on support but the service is truly excellent."
Neil Kelly - Cognotec (more testimonials...)

But don't take their word for it - contact us today to find out!

8. Integrated with your existing systems.

In addition to the extension possibilities, which allow bidirectional information flow with your existing systems, Confluence also has other integration features:

  • Confluence is developed using HTML standards and is tested with all major browsers.
  • RSS and email allow you to interact with Confluence from your daily work tools.
  • RPC plugins allow you to deploy SOAP or XML-RPC services within Confluence.
  • Themes allow you to skin Confluence to match your look and feel!
  • Java Servlets can be deployed directly onto the Confluence server, dynamically!
  • Hook into Confluence's event-driven architecture to drive other applications or systems from Confluence activity.

9. Confluence runs everywhere.

Don't spend hours or days setting up your wiki - Confluence can be up and running on your system in less than 30 seconds!

Confluence will run on your existing hardware and software platform. It runs on all operating systems which have a JDK, with almost all JDBC compliant databases. Confluence has been run on hardware from a Compaq iPAQ to an IBM AS400 and everything in between.

10. Continually improving.

Software is never "finished". We are continually working to improve our products, for you.

In less than 2 years, Confluence has developed into the easiest to use and most extensible wiki on the planet - bar none.

Our licensing policy includes 12 months of upgrades - for free. This means you're not just getting Confluence as it is today, you're getting all the improvements for a year.

What are you waiting for? Try Confluence today >>