Wiki & documentation

Elium vs Confluence

Confluence is a good home for engineering documentation. Elium is the trusted knowledge platform for the rest of the company – one governed source your teams and your AI answer from.

Global leaders to growing teams, turning knowledge into answers with Elium

L'Oréal
VINCI
BNP Paribas
BCG
Lime
Council of Europe
Restos du Cœur
Servier
ENEDIS
Fnac Darty
SPIE
Savencia

Governed foundation

Knowledge that stays verified, current and governed

In Elium, every article has a named owner, a review date and a validation flow. When content goes stale, the platform flags it and routes it to the right person – before anyone acts on it. Confluence leaves that work to discipline. Elium builds it in.

  • A named owner on every article
  • Review dates and approval flows built in
  • Stale content flagged automatically

AI you can stand behind

AI answers grounded in knowledge you govern

Point Copilot, your own agents or Elium's built-in AI at one governed source. Every answer cites the article it came from. Permissions are respected in every response. Confluence AI summarises whatever pages exist – Elium makes sure what your AI reads is verified and current first.

  • Every answer cites its source article
  • Permissions respected in every AI response
  • Workswith Copilot, agent platforms and Elium's own AI

Delivered everywhere

One source, served wherever your teams work

Elium serves answers inside the tools your teams already use – Teams, Slack, ITSM tools, portals and your own apps through the API. Global Operations, Customer Service and IT Support all work from the same source, in every language you work in. Confluence lives inside Atlassian. Elium goes where the work happens.

  • Served in Teams, Slack, ITSM tools and portals
  • Multi-language publishing and translation built in
  • Open APIsfor your own apps and agents

Independent and European

Independent, European – and easy to leave

Elium has been independently owned for over a decade. It is built and run in Belgium, ISO 27001 certified and GDPR-compliant, with hosting in Europe. And your knowledge stays yours: everything exports in open formats through a full API. If you ever want to leave, you leave with everything.

  • Independently ownedfor over a decade
  • European hosting, ISO 27001, GDPR
  • Full export in open formats – no lock-in

Our advisors no longer interrupt supervisors or rely on colleagues who might have outdated information. They go directly to Elium and find the current and correct process.

David Lefevre, Head of Knowledge and Deployment – Fnac Darty

AI helped us unmask problems we couldn't see before. A procedure that contradicts itself halfway through. Content that says the same thing in three different places, but differently each time. The AI detects it immediately.

Vincent Kippelen, Knowledge Manager – Savencia

  • Independently owned for over a decade
  • Based in Belgium
  • ISO 27001
  • GDPR

Switching to Elium is easier than you think.

Get a dedicated onboarding team

You're never in it alone. Our specialists design a knowledge structure around your teams, your workflows and your existing content, not a template.

See our deployment services

Migrate with tools and a team

Our tools and team migrate your Confluence content. We keep the structure worth keeping and help you archive the rest. Most teams are live in four to eight weeks.

How switching works

Get support built for knowledge managers

Always-on customer success, a deep help centre, and training for the people who manage knowledge, not just the people who read it.

Talk to an advisor

And your knowledge stays yours: everything exports in open formats, any time.

FAQ

Questions we hearfrom teams switching from Confluence

Yes. We import Confluence exports and keep the structure worth keeping. Our team helps you decide what to bring, what to archive and what to rewrite – migration is the right moment to clean up. Start with a migration assessment: we look at your Confluence content and give you a clear plan.
Either works. Many customers keep Confluence for engineering documentation and use Elium as the trusted knowledge platform for every other team. The two connect through integrations and search.
Most teams are live in four to eight weeks. The goal is one governed knowledge space running quickly – then expand team by team.
Confluence AI works on whatever pages exist – including the outdated ones no one owns. Elium's AI reads from a governed source where every article has an owner and a review date, and every answer cites its source. Same question, more reliable answer.
Elium is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR-compliant, built and run in Belgium, and hosted in Europe. We work with customers in pharma, finance and the public sector. Full documentation is available in the Trust Center.

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