Confluence

Knowledge Base as root

Comments: It has a learning curve at the beginning. Still, later on, and not so long after, you will find yourself putting everything on confluence because it is easy, well-managed, and perfect for a platform where people can find documentation and information in a well-presented format.

Pros:

Confluence is part of an already well-positioned and easy-to-implement ecosystem where multiple tools perform a specific job in a workflow. This makes it easy and friendly to set up and run; using information from other platforms like JIRA and Bitbucket, everything comes together in an excellent and organized way without much effort.

Cons:

It might be overwhelming at first; there are plenty of options and personalization elements you can include, so you might think, "It is too much for me." But by watching a couple of YouTube videos, you will see how you can customize it to suit your needs and start using its powerful features.

Alternatives Considered: Slack

Reasons for Choosing Confluence: We used to have documentation inside our bitbucket repositories, but we required a well-defined and easy-to-access platform where the team could both collaborate and access the information for a particular part of the application without needing to go through the code to find it

Switched From: Bitbucket

Reasons for Switching to Confluence: We found that Confluence integrated naturally with JIRA and our Bitbucket repositories, giving us an organic way to set up all our workflows in a single platform. While we could use Slack or any other messaging platform to communicate, Confluence worked perfectly for our documentation needs.

An Easy To Use Platform For Knowledge Management

Comments: Am happy to have known Confluence because it gets me better than other platforms. Confluence is fully packed with amazing features that simplify things for me.

Pros:

Confluence gets the work done in a fantastic way. Confluence is an open and shared workspace, and that's why I love Confluence. It is easy to use Confluence. It is so easy to integrate Confluence with other platforms like Slack.

Cons:

Confluence is fine and doesn't have any issues.

Confluence is a good option for document and process visibility

Comments: It is a better option than having documents spread out in different folders. It is good how it can hold multi-media and it is relatively easy to edit.

Pros:

It is easy to add content to Confluence and flexible when you need to adjust where it lives.

Cons:

The search function is poor, there is no AI to help guide your choices and people find it hard to navigate and understand where to find the content.

Confluence - great application documentation tool

Comments: Confluence is being used by various software application teams and my experience has been great with documenting solution documents.

Pros:

Confluence is a great tool to write software applications documentations, organize them in Team folder, having pages, whiteboards, Database of related documents grouped together. Easy to search and write structured contents with great formatting.

Cons:

Its easy to create tables in confluence pages. But its hard to control the table formatting which comes with default template and size. There can be more technical symbols and drawing features.

Alternatives Considered: Microsoft SharePoint

Reasons for Switching to Confluence: It is great for easy usage and search features are very good.

Confluence a game changer

Comments: my experience with Confluence has greatly improved our documentation processes and collaboration across projects

Pros:

Centralized Documentation: I've found it particularly useful for creating and managing various types of documentation, such as knowledge bases, meeting notes, and project plans

Cons:

Confluence is a little bit to navigate and time consuming