What is Confluence?
Confluence is a collaboration software developed by Atlassian that enables teams to create, share, and collaborate on projects, documents, and ideas in a centralized workspace. It provides a platform for documentation, project collaboration, and knowledge management, making it useful for a wide range of industries and organization sizes.
What and who is Confluence useful for?
Confluence is particularly valuable for businesses in tech, finance, education, and healthcare sectors to manage projects, documentation, and cross-functional team collaboration efficiently. Companies use it for knowledge sharing, project documentation, meeting notes, and strategic planning.
FAQs on this Confluence demo
How can I access a Confluence demo?
You can access a Confluence demo by exploring this interactive product tour, signing up for a free cloud trial through Atlassian's website, or requesting a personalized demonstration with an Atlassian solution partner who can showcase features relevant to your specific use cases.
What features are showcased in the Confluence demo?
The Confluence demo showcases key features including page creation and editing, space organization, templates, commenting and collaboration tools, version history, search functionality, and integrations with other Atlassian products. It demonstrates how these tools work together to create a cohesive knowledge management system.
How does Confluence organize content and information?
The demo highlights Confluence's space and page hierarchy system, showing how content can be organized into logical structures with spaces (for departments, teams, or projects) containing multiple pages and nested subpages. It demonstrates how this organization, combined with powerful search, helps teams find information quickly.
What collaboration features does Confluence offer?
The Confluence demo illustrates collaboration tools including real-time editing, commenting, @mentions, page sharing, notifications, and version history tracking. It shows how teams can work together on documents, provide feedback, track changes, and maintain accountability throughout the content creation process.
Does Confluence integrate with other business tools?
Yes, the demo showcases Confluence's integration capabilities, particularly with other Atlassian products like Jira, Trello, and Bitbucket. It also demonstrates how Confluence works with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Slack, and other third-party apps through the Atlassian Marketplace to create connected workflows.
Can Confluence be customized for different departments and teams?
The demo shows how Confluence can be tailored to different teams through custom spaces, templates, page layouts, and permissions. It demonstrates how marketing teams, engineering departments, HR professionals, and product teams can each create environments suited to their specific documentation and collaboration needs.
What templates are available in Confluence?
The Confluence demo highlights the template library featuring options for meeting notes, project plans, team documentation, decision records, how-to guides, knowledge bases, and more. It shows how templates provide structured starting points that save time and create consistency across team documentation.
How does Confluence handle permissions and access control?
The demo illustrates Confluence's permission system, showing how administrators can control access at the space and page levels. It demonstrates features like anonymous access, restricted content, space administration, and how to balance information sharing with appropriate security controls.
What deployment options are available for Confluence?
After exploring the demo, you can learn about Confluence's deployment options including Confluence Cloud (hosted by Atlassian with automatic updates), Confluence Data Center (self-hosted for enterprises with advanced requirements), and how each option provides different levels of control, scalability, and maintenance responsibility.
