SharePoint or Confluence

[Craig Barrett]

Hi all, I have a simple question as I am a newbie. Our company is thinking of moving to SharePoint from OneDrive to store all our files/docs. This relates to marketing, sales, functional specs, test scripts, user guides, etc.

We are looking for basic document management with a folder structure similar to Windows Explorer that everyone in the company can access.

Is Confluence not the right tool for this? I was hoping to use Confluence only without moving to SharePoint. We also have Jira however lets not focus on that right now.

Am I expecting too much from Confluence? I understand it was not designed as a document repository.

I was thinking that using Pages/Page Trees/Labels I could possibly build a structure.

regards, Craig Barrett

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My impression is:

If all your documents are native Confluence pages, you can use Confluence.

If many of your documents are pdf, word, ... , then I think Confluence might not be the easiest tool to use.  In Confluence, you'd need to attach the external pdf to a Confluence page.  That involves many clicks, and it's hard to track attachment versions in an intuitive way.