Cost benefit of Confluence - working hours saved

[Luisa Grams]

Dear community, 

with the EOL for Data Center looming in the not so far distance, we are doing cost benefit analyses to help our management decide whether to move to Atlassian Cloud or look for other solutions. 

I've been trying to (very roughly) quantify the working hours saved by using Confluence and am having diifficulty finding any concrete estimates. 

Have you done this kind of estimate before? How did you go about quantifying hours saved? Or can you recommend any literature on the topic? 

Thank you and happy new year, 
Luisa

Confluence systems admin 

[Jack Brickey]

I am unsure how you would calculate "time saved". What will you compare to? The absence of any documentation tool or some other tool?

my $0.02 FWIW...

I think you need to ask if you benefit from a wiki application and therefore need it. Then do a comparison between Confluence and other options to make your decision. 

considerations:

• feature comparison 
• effort and impact of changing apps (exporting/importing current pages, training users, user acceptance, etc.)
• pricing - look at pricing history for each to get an idea of what to expect down the road
• Stability of the companies

be sure that the selected solution provides a good solution for exporting pages for import to another platform if that becomes necessary down the road.