What is the SharePoint Connector for Confluence?

The Connector bridges the widely used enterprise wiki, Atlassian Confluence, with Microsoft's SharePoint, the enterprise productivity platform with 80 million users. Now users can access and share content across these two popular technologies.

What are the benefits of connecting SharePoint and Confluence?

Different users in a company want to use different technologies to get their work done. With the popularity of different collaboration platforms and tools, organisations are concerned about islands of content; they want useful ways to search and find content in different systems. Rather than restricting adoption of new collaboration technologies, a better solution would be to connect them. Given the popularity SharePoint and Confluence, the new bridge will help both loyal Microsoft users and committed Atlassian users achieve their goals.

Why did Microsoft choose to partner with Atlassian?

To realize its goal of making SharePoint a social computing platform. Microsoft is embracing partners who are leaders in Web 2.0 technologies. With over 11,500 customers in 104 countries, Atlassian was a natural strategic partner with its community of committed enterprise wiki users. Microsoft and Atlassian also share a high percentage of customers including their beta customer, Johns Hopkins University.

How do Atlassian's Confluence customers benefit?

In addition to many customers asking for this bridge, the successful adoption of wikis is about adding a new way to collaborate, not replacing proven technology. SharePoint is the highest priority for building a connector in the opinion of our customers.

What functionality does the Connector provide?

The first version of the Connector already does four things:

  • Search: Search results from SharePoint and Confluence appear in one place.
  • Content sharing: Within Confluence, users can embed content from SharePoint documents; from within SharePoint, users can select and display the full content of a Confluence page.
  • Linking: Users are be able to create links in SharePoint to Confluence pages, and vise versa. Both products contain new graphical interfaces to simplify this operation.
  • Single Sign-On and Security: With one login, users can access both systems, only accessing the content they have permission to see.

For more detail, see the Connector feature tour.

What versions of SharePoint and Confluence does this connector work with?

SharePoint Server 2007 and Confluence 2.5.7 or later.

How much does it cost?

For a limited beta period the SharePoint Connector for Confluence is available at no cost.

Who do I contact for more information?

For sales information, please contact sales@atlassian.com.

Journalists and analysts can reach us at media@atlassian.com.

To discuss the connector, see the Connector Forum.