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Confluence: About Confluence by Atlassian is a leading content collaboration software for modern teams. It empowers teams to create, share, and collaborate on projects in one place, easily publish and access company information, capture, store and grow team's knowledge, and so much more. Confluence is also available on mobile, enabling teams to track team activity, give feedback, and stay in sync regardless of device.	MkDocs: About MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file. There's a stack of good looking themes available for MkDocs. Choose between the built in themes, mkdocs and readthedocs, select one of the third-party themes listed on the MkDocs Themes wiki page, or build your own. Get your project documentation looking just the way you want it by customizing your theme and/or installing some plugins. Modify Markdown's behavior with Markdown extensions. Many configuration options are available. The built-in dev-server allows you to preview your documentation as you're writing it. It will even auto-reload and refresh your browser whenever you save your changes. MkDocs builds completely static HTML sites that you can host on GitHub pages, Amazon S3, or anywhere else you choose.
Confluence: Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Supported iPad Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	MkDocs: Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Confluence: Audience From technical teams and project management groups, to marketing, HR, legal, and finance.	MkDocs: Audience Developers and anyone looking for a project documentation solution to generate documentation source files
Confluence: Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported	MkDocs: Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
Confluence: API Offers API Not Supported	MkDocs: API Offers API Not Supported
Confluence: Screenshots and Videos View more images or videos	MkDocs: Screenshots and Videos View more images or videos
Confluence: Pricing $10.00/month Up to 10 users - $10 monthly flat fee 11-100 users - $5 per user/month Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported	MkDocs: Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported
Confluence: Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.7 / 5 ease 4.7 / 5 features 4.4 / 5 design 4.3 / 5 support 4.6 / 5 Read all reviews	MkDocs: Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
Confluence: Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Confluence provides millions of integration and collaboration tools between teams to contribute to each other on important work projects. I like the fact that its platform is an open space to create an exchange of ideas and labor participation to put together marketing campaigns, commercial projects, brand management, strategy planning or whatever we need to do. It allows us to prioritize and put all our ideas in order, traceability allows us to follow up our product step by step, in addition to the fact that thanks to the forums and the creation of reports we have been able to make everything clear and captured to correctly follow the workflow, marked route to achieve the completion of each of our projects. With Confluence we have achieved that all work teams, regardless of the work area, can participate and contribute to each part that makes a project essential, in this way we save a lot of work and time, we can all advance in a single plane, keeping constant the development of our work. Being able to access from our cell phone is important to be able to supervise work progress or collaborate when needed and not in the office, having this has been essential. The cost is also quite comfortable and fits perfectly to what we need. Confluence is a great place to have information quickly accessible for reading and is great for having lots of storage space. It's nice to be able to have one platform for all parts of an engineering company. Being able to create a page from scratch without need for code or developer knowledge is nice. Easy to use. Plenty of integration in the cloud version. All in one product, if you need an integration Probably confluence have it. Confluence seems to me to be a very suitable program for my work, and my results confirm this; with it, I can have very positive editing options. In addition to having many theme features with customization influences that encompass colorful themes. It is fundamental because it has a platform that adapts to the management of files, either heavy or light. Another critical factor is its flexibility and variety; it allows me to have very suitable templates for every circumstance and type of client. Cons The interface can be a bit boring, it would be ideal to have more customization power, edit the background or structure, since it is a bit complicated to find the tools that we need to use, as well as the creation of pages, we do not know how to control the creation much of these and makes the panel too dense, having a better guide and documentation of each aspect of the platform would greatly facilitate understanding and use. Also, when editing documents, the options are limited, it does not provide model templates and the fonts are very few, sometimes we need to expand our possibilities. Until now these have been the limitations that we have had at work, the rest regarding functionality and the real usefulness of the platform has undoubtedly been good. There are little to no features to help separate sections and is not the easiest to navigate. Sometimes the wiki pages can get a little crazy to find or edit. If you don't know the name of what you are looking for, it can be really hard to find. The wiki pages can get a little confusing when trying to set them up. Pretty hard to configure. Text formatting structure "standard" - no cute presentation. The interface is not very graphical, it does not include novelty in its movements, that is to say, it is a little outdated, it is nothing serious but it would be encouraging to update its image. It would also be great if they implemented an alphabetical order in each of its pages, this would facilitate the search.
Confluence: Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported	MkDocs: Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Confluence: Company Information Atlassian Founded: 2002 United States www.atlassian.com	MkDocs: Company Information MkDocs Founded: 2014 United States www.mkdocs.org
Confluence: Alternatives Universal Knowledge Knowledge Powered Solutions Ltd 4.7 out of 5 stars	MkDocs: Alternatives Docusaurus
Confluence: Guru 5.0 out of 5 stars	MkDocs: GitBook 3.0 out of 5 stars
Confluence: Smartsheet Smartsheet.com 4.6 out of 5 stars	MkDocs: Read the Docs
Confluence: Bit.ai Bit Tech Labs	MkDocs: Daux.io
Confluence: Nuclino 5.0 out of 5 stars View All	MkDocs: ClickHelp 5.0 out of 5 stars View All
Confluence: Categories Collaboration Supported Component Content Management Systems (CCMS) Supported Corporate Wiki Supported Document Collaboration Supported IT Documentation Supported Knowledge Management Supported Process Documentation Supported Project Management Supported Requirements Management Supported Software Documentation Supported Team Management Supported	MkDocs: Categories Help Authoring Tools Supported IT Documentation Supported Software Documentation Supported
Confluence: Software Documentation Features Access Roles / User Permissions Supported Automatic Documentation Generation Not Supported Collaboration Tools Supported Docs Web Hosting Supported Feedback Capture Not Supported Markdown Support Supported Multiple Formats Support Supported Multiple Versions Support Supported reStructured Text Support Not Supported Version Control Supported Webhooks Supported WYSIWIG Editor Not Supported Show More Features Collaboration Features Brainstorming Supported Calendar Management Supported Chat / Messaging Not Supported Contact Management Not Supported Content Management Not Supported Document Management Supported Project Management Supported Real Time Editing Supported Task Management Supported Version Control Supported Video Conferencing Supported Knowledge Management Features Artificial Intelligence (AI) Not Supported Cataloging / Categorization Supported Collaboration Supported Content Management Not Supported Decision Tree Supported Discussion Boards Supported Full Text Search Supported Knowledge Base Management Supported Self Service Portal Supported Project Management Features Agile Methodologies Supported Budget Management Not Supported Client Portal Supported Collaboration Tools Supported Cost-to-Completion Tracking Supported Customizable Templates Supported Gantt Charts Supported Idea Management Supported Kanban Board Supported Milestone Tracking Not Supported Portfolio Management Not Supported Resource Management Supported Time & Expense Tracking Not Supported Traditional Methodologies Supported Requirements Management Features Automated Functional Sizing Not Supported Automated Requirements QA Not Supported Automated Test Generation Not Supported Automated Use Case Modeling Not Supported Change Management Not Supported Collaboration Supported History Tracking Not Supported Prioritization Supported Reporting Not Supported Status Reporting Not Supported Status Tracking Supported Summary Reports Not Supported Task Management Supported To-Do List Not Supported Traceability Not Supported User Defined Attributes Not Supported
Confluence: Integrations Biel.ai Supported Mermaid Supported Azure Marketplace Supported Beam AI Supported Bitglass Supported Cutover Supported DocsGPT Supported Dropbox Dash Supported Enterprise Bot Supported Klu Supported Kuika Supported ManageEngine AlarmsOne Supported Pi Supported Prodini Supported RunLLM Supported SeaTicket Supported Siit Supported TeamRetro Supported Teleskope Supported atSpoke Supported Show More Integrations View All 483 Integrations	MkDocs: Integrations Biel.ai Supported Mermaid Supported Azure Marketplace Not Supported Beam AI Not Supported Bitglass Not Supported Cutover Not Supported DocsGPT Not Supported Dropbox Dash Not Supported Enterprise Bot Not Supported Klu Not Supported Kuika Not Supported ManageEngine AlarmsOne Not Supported Pi Not Supported Prodini Not Supported RunLLM Not Supported SeaTicket Not Supported Siit Not Supported TeamRetro Not Supported Teleskope Not Supported atSpoke Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 7 Integrations
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