Confluence gets sold directly against Sharepoint. The communications department says, &quot;we need to create a corporate strategy for communicating. Dealing with culture is hard, so instead we&#x27;re going to go and throw money at mechanism.&quot; The contenders are sharepoint and confluence. This sales systems is what ruined confluence - they used to have a delightful markup syntax that was a joy to work with, but in order to get checkbox competition against sharepoint they created an awful broken pretend-WYSISYG.<p>Asana and Jira joust for dominance in the all-important &quot;issue-based team work management systems&quot; segment. You can hire agile consultants to tell the people how to do their jobs using it. (actually I think Jira is awesome, but I hate that culture)<p>It speaks well of you that you find this senseless despite your experience.