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Guide 1: Choosing Confluence for your team
Get your team on the same page
Choose your plan
Manage a successful rollout
Guide 2: Get started with Confluence
A brief overview of Confluence
Set up Your Confluence site and spaces
Create and collaborate on content
Navigate Confluence
Organize and customize your Confluence space
Manage permissions
Confluence best practices
Guide 3: Confluence Essentials
Navigate Confluence
Create a new page
Formatting and editing a page
Collaborate on a Confluence page
Visual collaboration whiteboard
Create a visually appealing company hub
Organize structured data with databases
Guide 4: Integrate Confluence with everything you use
Confluence integrations and apps
Using Confluence and Jira together
Using Confluence and Jira Service Management together
Tutorial: How to Use Confluence and Loom Together
Using Confluence with chat: Slack and Microsoft Teams
Turn data into insights
Guide 5: Confluence best practices
Confluence use cases
Keep it all organized
Make compelling pages
Make quick work of tables
Master the whiteboard
Confluence Whiteboards for Marketers
Confluence Whiteboards for Product Managers
Confluence Whiteboards for team brainstorms
Using whiteboards for diagrams in documents
Team posters for better teamwork
Productive blogging (yes, really!)
Set up an org-wide knowledge base
Supercharge your workflows with Atlassian Intelligence
Tips and tricks for using AI
Knowledge management for teams
Successful project collaboration
Confluence databases
Smart connectors and smart sections
Team alignment
Guide 6: How-to-guides
How to use Confluence whiteboards for planning and prioritization
Mind map template
Flowchart template
Meeting agenda template
GTD templates
Fishbone diagram template
Project Proposal template
Confluence whiteboards for retros
Work plan template
Decision matrix template
Eisenhower matrix template
Communication plan template
Time management matrix
KPI
Lessons learned
Critical path
Brand strategy
Process map
Reporting requirements
Business requirements
Project summary
Project closure
Guide 7: How admins can level up with Confluence Premium
Confluence Premium empowers admins
Quickly create new spaces with the right permissions
Troubleshoot permission problems fast
Get actionable space and site-level insights with mission control
Easily manage content at scale
Eliminate manual tasks with automations
Security and support to scale with your organization

Confluence basics

About Confluence

Create, collaborate, and organize all your work in one place. Confluence is a team workspace where knowledge and collaboration meet. Dynamic pages give your team a place to create, capture, and collaborate on any project or idea. Spaces help your team structure, organize, and share work, so every team member has visibility into institutional knowledge and access to the information they need to do their best work. Learn more about features in Confluence.

Confluence is for teams of any size and type, from those with mission-critical, high-stakes projects that need rigor behind their practices, to those that are looking for a space to build team culture and engage with one another in a more open and authentic way.

Equipped with Confluence, your team can make quick decisions, gain alignment, and accomplish more together. 

Hosting options

In the cloud, on your own infrastructure, or at a massive scale, Confluence has you covered. Take a look at the options below to discover which hosting option is right for your organization.

Clouds

Cloud

With Confluence Cloud, we host your site for you – no servers, storage, or maintenance needed. You’ll get immediate access to our latest features with automatic upgrades, optimal performance, and elastic scale using AWS cloud hosting.

Data Center

Data Center

Confluence Data Center is a self-managed solution providing organizations with configuration options to meet team collaboration demands. Read-only mode and deployment flexibility with IaaS providers like AWS and Azure allow for uninterrupted access and scale to meet your users' demands.

For Confluence Cloud, we offer free, standard, and premium plans for teams with different needs. For information about our Confluence Cloud subscription plans, see this overview.

Key terms

Page

Your content lives in pages – living documents you create on your Confluence site. You can create pages for almost anything, from project plans to meeting notes, troubleshooting guides, policies, and more. Confluence comes bundled with templates to help you make beautiful pages for almost any kind of content. If you can’t find a template for the type of content you want to create, you can always start with a blank page.

Learn more about pages in Part 3.

Space

Pages are stored in spaces – workspaces where you can collaborate on work and keep all your content organized. It’s best to group related content together in the same space, but you can create as many or as few spaces as your team needs. For example, one marketing team might keep all of its work in one space, with a page for each campaign, while another might set up a separate space for every single campaign. Each space comes with an overview (or homepage) and a blog, so it’s easy to share updates and announcements with your whole team.

Learn more about spaces in Part 2.

Page tree

Organize space content with a hierarchical page tree that makes finding work quick and easy. Nest pages under related spaces and pages to organize pages in just about any way.

Learn more about page trees in Part 2.

Additional Resources

Confluence Cloud vs Data Center

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Confluence trust and security

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Cloud pricing calculator

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SETUP YOUR SITE AND SPACES

Learn how to set up a Confluence site and organize content in spaces.

Read Part 2
Create content in Confluence

Learn how to create rich, dynamic content in Confluence.

Read Part 3