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Confluence

by AtlassianVerified

Confluence delivers structured team spaces for centralized IT documentation. Explore its IT Documentation capabilities, deployment choices and top competitors.

Product Type
Enterprise Team Workspace & Knowledge Management Platform
Deployment
SaaS / Cloud
Industries
6+ industries
Regions
Global
Free Trial
Yes
Pricing
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About Confluence

Atlassian Confluence is an enterprise knowledge management and collaborative documentation workspace designed to centralize institutional knowledge, project documentation, and technical architecture records across distributed organizations. Serving as a single source of truth for cross-functional teams, Confluence allows teams to create, organize, and discuss dynamic pages that incorporate text, code snippets, interactive roadmaps, Jira task issues, and multimedia assets within structured departmental spaces. The platform provides real-time collaborative editing, granular version history, and automated change tracking, ensuring that software documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), security policies, and incident post-mortems remain accurate and accessible. For enterprise security and IT compliance, Confluence provides enterprise-grade data governance, including custom user permissions, space-level access controls, IP allowlisting, audit logging, and data loss prevention (DLP) integration. With deep bidirectional connectivity across the Atlassian product ecosystem—including Jira Software, Jira Service Management, and Bitbucket—teams can link operational documentation directly to development tickets, accelerating software delivery and incident resolution. Confluence empowers organizations to break down knowledge silos, enhance team transparency, and streamline compliance audits.

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Where Confluence is ranked

Featured in 1 Cyber Rank ranking.

Key Features

5 capabilities that Confluence offers.

Collaborative document editing

Structured team spaces

Granular version history

Jira bidirectional linking

Enterprise access control and audit logs

Use Cases

Centralized IT documentation
Collaborative sprint planning
Security incident post-mortems
Standard operating procedure publishing

Industries Served

Confluence is used across 6+ industries.

Technology
Financial Services
Healthcare
Government
Education
Retail

Regions

Global

Integrations

Works with the tools teams already use

Jira
Bitbucket
Slack
Microsoft Teams
Google Drive
Trello
Okta

Deployment Options

Flexible deployment to meet your needs

SaaSCloud

Platform & Access

What Confluence supports, at a glance.

  • API accessYes
  • Single sign-on (SSO)Yes
  • Role-based access (RBAC)Yes
  • Multi-tenantYes
  • Mobile appYes

Security & Compliance

Standards, regulations, and frameworks this product aligns with.

  • SOCSOC 2
  • ISOISO 27001
  • GDPRGDPR
  • HIPAAHIPAA
  • FedRAMPFedRAMP
Supported platforms
Enterprise WorkforcesSoftware TeamsIT Service Desks
Operating systems
OS-Independent Cloud SaaSLinux for Data Center edition
Browser support
Modern web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari)
Languages supported
EnglishFrenchGermanJapaneseSpanishPortuguese
Data residency
United States; European Union; Germany; Australia; AWS Cloud Regions
Deployment details
Cloud SaaS; Data Center; Cloud SaaS; Data Center (Self-Managed Enterprise)

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