Confluence combines powerful online document creation capabilities, tight integration with Microsoft Office to help people work better together, share information and build knowledge. Confluence is used as a portal, knowledge management and document management system.
Atlassian Confluence is an enterprise content management application designed to accumulate and share information across a company or group of companies. It can be used to organize public knowledge bases, external and internal reference portals and documentation resources, blogging and web publishing, including report publishing; knowledge management and business process documentation.
It is a universal, significantly expanded platform compared to software products of this class, the set of functions of which allows to use the solution for the organization of electronic document flow of the company. The application was created by the Australian company Atlassian Software Systems.
The basic functions of the software allow you to:
- Create pages. Any of them can be quickly and easily edited.
- Structure information. A Confluence knowledge base can consist of an unlimited number of workspaces. You can link between them through indexes, cross-references, tags.
- Receive notifications about news and changes. This is useful if you work in a team, but you want to be aware of fresh edits related to a particular project.
- Search for the information you need. Search works across the entire database.
- Advanced functionality provides additional opportunities to work with content. You will be able to create blogs, news, notes and newsletters. The information in this case will be linked to the time of creation.
Also, the advanced features allow you to:
- Work with documents. You can attach them, view them, track changes to them, and use them to find the data you need.
- Conduct discussions. The software features allow you to discuss project work with team members.
- Manage projects. The Confluence section can be connected to Jira Software.
- Create personalized spaces. Create a personal environment with the right tools and information for your work.