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Moving from Atlassian Confluence to BlueSpice
Big Move
Atlassian Confluence is a popular collaboration platform used by many organizations around the world. Users are accustomed to relying on Confluence for meetings, memos, wikis, and project management; however, Atlassian recently announced that they are discontinuing the server edition in favor of a cloud-only configuration.
Many customers with sensitive information, such as research companies in the high-tech industry, lawyers, financial service providers, and journalists, are concerned about moving all their collaboration data to the web. Others, even if they aren't in particularly sensitive industries, might not want to give their data to the cloud for any number of policy or practical reasons.
Even as some Confluence admins grapple with the challenge of moving to the Atlassian cloud, others are looking for alternatives that will let them keep their data local and avoid the vendor lock-in of proprietary tools like Atlassian Confluence, but migrating data is often time-consuming, although it is possible. The transfer of Atlassian data to a new system is typically the most complex task during migration.
Users who want to leave will usually not receive any help from Atlassian, and Confluence support service providers expect good money for their help. To make matters worse, Confluence is different from most wikis. Unlike its open source competitors, Confluence manages individual pages in "workspaces," has its own access rights, and handles subordinate pages, as well as numerous macros. Some of these features might not correspond directly to equivalent features in the alternative tools.
Confluence administrators are happy to see that export functions are available, at to least export the content to, for example, XML, so those who know how to use scripts will achieve quick and good results manually.
A pair of leading open source wiki tools advertise migration assistants to help you migrate your Confluence data. One of those
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