Looking for a good example of Confluence to show my team

[Michael Arndt]

Here's my issue. My company has always tried to organize all our systems and processes in Google Drive and to me it's been a failure. I think Google Drive is designed more for personal use and isn't great as tool for organizing companies. Confluence seems to be better at this.

I want to present the idea of moving our organization to Confluence and use it as a hub for all our documentation, system and processes and training material but I know I'm going to get a lot of resistance.

Are there any really good examples of Confluence I should show them to get that team buy-in? 

[Diego]

Hello there Michael!

Usually, a Confluence instance is a private location for a company, organization or even individual. With this in mind, you could make You Own Evaluation of Confluence for Seven Days. Here is our page for more details:

• Confluence Cloud

Confluence Cloud offers the possibility of offloading the costs of hardware maintenance and up time to Atlassian so you and your colleagues can focus on Collaborating and Sharing with Confluence.

Here we have more details on Confluence Cloud:

• Compare Atlassian cloud vs server
• Functional differences in Confluence Cloud

As a good starting point, we can start by talking about Spaces and Pages:

• Confluence Cloud - Spaces
• Confluence Cloud - Pages and Blogs

So, Spaces is Confluence work as a tool for us to Organize the content we currently have.If we have multiple departments inside an organization, we could create one Space for each department.

After creating the spaces, we could populate them with pages with relevant content for each department, for example.

Confluence also allows us to integrate attachments seamlessly within pages. This allows the users to have easy access to important files when collaborating:

• Confluence Cloud - Upload Files

Going one step further, you will have the option to limit access based on permissions for each one of those spaces or pages! This facilitates access limitation and management of sensitive content.  Here, have a look at the permissions and restrictions system:

• Confluence Cloud - Permissions and restrictions
• Confluence Cloud - Space Permissions overview
• Confluence Cloud - Add or remove page restrictions

One awesome feature Connie has is Collaborative Editing! This enables Real Time collaboration in documents inside Confluence.

My suggestion to you, Michael? Hop on to the trial and try out the features Confluence has. If possible, try it with real content from your organization so the examples you give hit really close to home.