Collaborating and Sharing in Confluence: The Basics
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Enterprises everywhere are flocking to consolidate their tools and move everybody over to one platform. This episode dives into the potential of using Atlassian’s Confluence for enterprise collaboration, along with everything you need to get started sharing in Confluence.
What is Confluence?
Confluence is a place where employees can post articles, reports, meeting notes, to-do lists, diagrams, and anything else they might need to share with their workmates. And like any wiki, you can connect related pages together using internal links, making the content easy to explore.
Think of Confluence as four things:
A knowledge base. You can document processes, answer FAQs, and post policy and best practice information for your employees.
A workspace. You can create plans, requirements, and specs, draft blog articles for a website, communicate progress on projects, and talk to your colleagues by replying to comments and mentioning them.
An intranet. You can engage your employees with internal blogs and company updates.
A filing cabinet. Confluence can be used to store articles, reports, specs, contracts, and procedural documents, even ones that are no longer being actively used or referred to.
All kinds of teams use Confluence, from marketing to Hr to legal. We like it, we use it ourselves, and we think it’s pretty darn intuitive. Well, most of the time. That said, until Elon Musk is able to stitch computers into our brains, no newbie can log into Confluence and know instantly what to do with it. Therefore, let’s run through some basics.
Hosting
Confluence is available in three forms: Cloud, Data Center, and Server. Cloud and servers are relatively easy to understand.
Confluence Server is installed on your own hardware and you customize the setup how you like. If you have strict data governance requirements, don’t quite trust the cloud yet, and don’t mind the complexity and risk of hosting yourselves, you’ll probably be considering Server.
What about Data Centers?
Well, Data Center is still self-hosted, server-based software.
But Confluence Server is hosted on a single server, whereas Confluence Data Center is hosted on multiple. These extra servers boost the security and performance of your instance. If one goes down, all users are directed to whichever one/s is still standing.
And it distributes user traffic among the servers too, so if 10,000 users sign in to Confluence at once, half will go to one server and a half to another, keeping everything from slowing down too much.
In effect, Data Center is faster, stronger, and better than Server.
But it still isn’t Cloud. The cloud is really where you want to be and Confluence Cloud is where Atlassian is pouring all its efforts.
How to encourage Confluence adoption
Remember some people love their Word documents, their spreadsheets, and their Google Drives. And most don’t like change. Or, more accurately, they don’t like change when one, it’s being forced on them, and two, they don’t see why the new system is better.
If you’ve decided to implement Confluence for enterprise collaboration, you should introduce it to your employees slowly. Ease users into it. Let them play with this new platform and discover its benefits for themselves.
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