What is Confluence?
Confluence is a content collaboration tool used to help teams to collaborate and share knowledge efficiently. With Confluence, users can create pages and blogs which can be commented on and edited by all members of the team. Confluence provides the ability to migrate from paper-based content creation to a wiki-style web-based content management solution. With Confluence, you can create pages and blogs for collaboration and share information, allowing your work to effectively become living documents that can be commented on and edited by all members of the team.
Some of Confluence's key features include the following:
- Accelerated feedback loop with inline comments on both pages and files attached.
- Ready-made solutions for your daily documentation needs with Blueprints & Templates
- A variety of methods to share your Confluence content: 'subscribe' to content changes via email notifications or RSS, email a page directly to users, and blogs for individuals and teams.
- Granular permission controls: restrict content access at three levels - global, space-wide, and per individual page; so that individuals and groups can see only what's relevant to them.
- An inbuilt Rich Text Editor with attachment drag and drop, deep Microsoft Office integration, tons of keyboard shortcuts and rich content-embedding all included.
- Flexibility: Hundreds of available extensions and integrations with third-party applications via our Atlassian Marketplace - if a feature isn't native to Confluence, it may likely already be available via a plugin, or can be developed.
Confluence has also been designed to integrate with Jira, and has a number of integration points built-in, giving Confluence users the ability to view, interact with, and reference JIRA issues from a wiki page. This is especially useful in the case where Confluence is being used for project collaboration, requirements gathering, and team meeting notes - involved parties can participate in project discussion, while viewing JIRA issues, or creating new ones without leaving Confluence.
To learn more, visit the Confluence documentation page for a more detailed overview.
