Atlassian Confluence Wiki

Confluence is a team workspace and wiki platform for creating, organizing, and collaborating on content. Developed by Atlassian, founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar in Sydney, Australia. Went public on Nasdaq in December 2015 (ticker: TEAM). Acquired by Salesforce pending. Confluence serves over 60,000 customers including 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Key features: pages and spaces: create rich text documents with headings, tables, images, videos, code blocks, and macros. Organize pages into hierarchical spaces by team, project, or department. Templates: pre-built templates for meeting notes, product requirements, decisions, project plans, retrospectives, onboarding, and weekly reports. Custom templates. Real-time co-editing: multiple users edit the same page simultaneously. Track changes, comments, and mentions. @mentions for notifications. Page hierarchy: tree-structured organization of pages within spaces. Parent-child relationships. Page properties and metadata. Macros: extensible building blocks for dynamic content. Include panels, status badges, task lists, table of contents, excerpts, jira issues, expandable sections, and code snippets. Jira integration: embed Jira issues, epics, sprints, and filters on pages. Two-way linking between documentation and issues. Whiteboards: collaborative digital whiteboards for brainstorming and planning. Link to Confluence pages. Databases: structured tables with custom fields, filtering, and views. Link to pages. Search: powerful full-text search across all content. Filter by space, author, date, content type. Permissions: granular space and page-level permissions. View, edit, and admin roles. Analytics: page views, popular content, and contributor insights. Export to PDF, Word, HTML. JavaScript/Java. Proprietary.