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Confluence (by Atlassian) is a team collaboration and knowledge management platform — essentially a dynamic wiki for organizations. It helps teams create, organize, and share content such as documentation, project plans, meeting notes, and internal knowledge across a centralized platform.

Overview

Confluence is designed to be the single source of truth for organizations. Instead of scattering knowledge across emails, shared drives, and ad hoc files, Confluence provides structured spaces and page hierarchies for teams to build and maintain documentation. It’s ideal for cross-functional collaboration, culture of transparency, and aligning teams through shared context. It integrates deeply with other Atlassian tools (Jira, Bitbucket, etc.), so projects and documentation remain connected.

What Is Confluence?

Confluence is a web-based enterprise wiki and collaboration tool.
Originally offered as both cloud and on-premises (Data Center) versions, it now emphasizes the cloud offering while still maintaining a Data Center self-managed option.
Teams use Confluence to build internal knowledge bases, policies, product specs, design documentation, onboarding content, and more.

Key Features of Confluence

• Spaces & Page Hierarchy: Organize content logically within spaces and nested pages.
• Templates & Macros: Pre-built and custom templates support structured content, and macros let you embed dynamic info (tables, diagrams, Jira issues, etc.).
• Permissions & Page Restrictions: Control view/edit access at space & page levels.
• Analytics & Insights: See page views, user engagement, and content health (with Premium).
• Automation & Rules: Automate repetitive tasks (e.g. archiving stale pages).
• Whiteboards / Diagrams: Especially in Premium, more whiteboards allowed.
• Unlimited Storage (in Premium) & file attachments.
• 24/7 Support & SLA (in Premium) / Enterprise: Higher tiers guarantee uptime & support.
• Self-Managed / Data Center Option: For organizations wanting local control. Starts at ~$28,000/year for 500 users.

Who Should Use Confluence?

• Teams that heavily rely on documentation (engineering, product, operations)
• Organizations that want a central knowledge base instead of fragmented docs
• Companies already using Atlassian’s toolset (Jira, Bitbucket, etc.)
• Enterprises needing advanced permissions, audits, compliance, or multi-site control
• Organizations that prefer cloud SaaS or self-hosted (Data Center) setups

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