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Confluence
Solutions – Collaboration
Many minds are better than one.
Why use Confluence for collaboration?
How do you get the best from a team that's scattered around the world — or even from one that shares the same building?
How can you encourage people to contribute their ideas, keep colleagues up-to-date about progress, develop documents collaboratively, and tell the whole team about important issues?
Collaborate in Confluence
Confluence, the most advanced enterprise wiki, provides online workspaces where team members can hold discussions, develop ideas, create documents, share knowledge, post blogs and meeting notes, even have a team calendar.
A powerful way to collaborate, the wiki provides:
Case Study: Why did you choose Confluence?
We were looking for something easy to use across the web with all the basics of collaboration — where
people could add notes and blogs and one with the security that could be tied to our IT directory and
Netegrity Site Minder. It was just a matter of time before we decided "okay, let's just all concentrate on
Confluence."
Easy to access, easy to use
Confluence puts everyone on the same page. As a web-based application, it removes any geographical barriers and offers an accessible 'home' or shared mind-space for your team.
The intuitive interface enables everyone to contribute, whether it is by editing text on a page, adding a comment, inserting an image or chart.
Collaborative authoring
A Confluence workspace is the perfect place to collaborate on content, such as a report involving multiple departments. Simply create a page or post a blog in your workspace, and let the ideas and responses flow back and forth.
Usage example: The marketing department kept their space open for the whole company to see. Because of this, the product development team could review the content of the brochure for accuracy. The graphic designer could upload a new image. The product manager could leave a time-stamped comment giving approval of the latest version.
Confluence provides a safe editing environment where multiple authors can confidently work together. Every time a page is saved, a new version is automatically created — leaving an audit trail so you can easily compare versions, and reverse any change at any time.
Case Study: In addition to being your default knowledge base, is Confluence used in other ways?
We use Confluence as a collaboration tool, too. Some files are edited by several people and not maintained by
one person. The same thing goes with scientific projects. These projects become spaces in Confluence and people
are constantly submitting new experimental results. People comment, summarize and organize the results.
Confluence is actually a collaborative platform, and with the ease of use Confluence provides, it's just very
convenient to share and contribute. And that's a great way to enhance the collaboration among our Research &
Development teams.
As secure as you need
Many organisations choose to keep a wiki open for all users to view, edit and comment — enabling company-wide collaboration.
Usage example: The HR department is drafting a new policy. Although the page can only be edited by members of that department, everyone within the company can view and provide feedback by commenting on the page.
For more confidential topics, Confluence's flexible security allows you to choose which teams and individuals can access different workspaces. You can even restrict access and/or edit permission for particular pages within a shared workspace.
Staying in the loop
Stay informed on the conversations within Confluence by selecting your notification preferences. Subscribe to receive emails or RSS feeds when a particular page is edited, or when a comment or blog entry has been posted.
Tap into the power of many minds
Important knowledge can live anywhere in your organisation, but unearthing it can be a challenge. The person who knows the most about a particular topic or customer might not be obvious. That's where blogging can help.
Usage example: The product manager is in the process of developing a feature specification. He blogs about his proposal in order to gather feedback from other developers. Based on the comments received, he uses that discussion as a starting point for the specification.