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The Alfresco Digital Business Platform is a leading enterprise content management platform that merges content (from documents, email, web pages, social networks and more) with business processes. Designed to support rapid...
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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best Content Management solution
Alfresco is best end to end document management solution. All data for document can we accessed using noderef and service registry method. Upgrading version ,applying patch all we can do very easily . Alfreso provide solr as search engine which is very fast. Alfresco all expose all it's feature as rest end point and anyone can use it. we can easily provide to folder level permission in it
Pros
Alfresco is best content management solution. It allows us to define own metadata for document ,versioning, retention policy and workflow management . It provide end to end solution for documents. Alfresco provide full text search ,noderef search and lucene query search. alfresco provide user and role management feature also.
Cons
No issue found yet , working as expected.
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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A Serious platform to manage the documents lifecycle
Great option for document management, all web based and with the confidence of have your info safe.
Pros
In the first place for being Open Source, The information security and integrity, the access control to access each document and the way it keeps track of every changes.
Cons
Still requires programming to implement specific functions and the learning curve that is not as short as one could desire.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used for 1-5 months
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Very powerful document manager, extremely difficult to customize for real-life workflows.
We started using Alfresco as a document manager. And in that sense, we liked it a lot. But when we wanted to also use its workflow and BPM capabilities we encountered tremendous difficulties, so we finally abandoned the project.
Pros
The document manager is really powerful, flexible, scalable, and robust. It supports different use cases and meets most of the static document management needs (documents that do not flow through the organization).
Cons
Workflow and business process management functionalities are really complex to configure for complex real-life processes. This makes it very costly to build a complete solution (in time and money). But more importantly, it is very difficult to maintain the application, every change is complex, time-consuming, and generates instability in the configured workflow.
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- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Industrial strength document management system with records , workflow, and custom modules
Alfresco One is probably the biggest and best document management applications available. Records management is a huge plus. This app can and does replace entire warehouses of file cabinets and does it better than any paper solution could because you are able to have Alfresco search at the speed of light through the documents in your system to find what you're looking for, imagine being able to google a room full of file cabinets. The workflows are another thing, and the tagging. You can build your own modules which carry out actions on incoming and outgoing documents. Some really seriously successful companies and organizations are using Alfresco One as a key piece of their winning formula.
Pros
Alfresco One can handle pretty much any job you throw at it. Built on java, it's industrial strength, and there's no end to the number of programmers available to develop custom modules for your specific needs. Government departments use Alfresco One. NASA uses Alfresco One. Some of the biggest names and most successful people in the world use Alfresco One at their company or organization. Soundly beats Microsoft Sharepoint, another document system, in terms of all technical achievement, openness, transparency, auditing, and overall quality.
Cons
The license fee can be costly if you're an upstart new small business with no or low funding. For this reason there's the free version, Alfresco Community Edition. Built on java means you might pay a bit more for helpers to build for it, however, if Alfresco fits your needs, you probably won't mind. The Alfresco Community Edition forums are not maybe as active as other software's forums, probably because the number of people actually reaching the point of greatness in their lives and their careers where they are actually able to go paperless either on their own or with their organization's documents, is relatively fewer, than the billions of people whose documents are still on paper, and still impossible to search through, and still disorganized.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Document Management Tool and Collaboration Enterprise Software
My Documentary Management Processes were satisfied. Creation of PDF, Digital signature, Sending of documents to users of the system. Viewing the PDF online. Ensure the regulatory compliance of my company by classifying the documents.
Pros
The most remarkable thing about Alfresco ECM is the unification of tools, the design and structure of tools that allow the design and fulfillment of the rules of documentary processes and business collaboration.
Alfresco is a complex and wide-ranging tool in the Document Management and Collaboration segments.
Cons
What could improve is the ease of use in the overall communication tool. Currently a mediun user is required to operate the system and thus achieve a correct document flow. Sometimes Cmis interaction could be a problem, most cmis programs have some dificult to connect like cmisSync.
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Great CMS for SMBs
Pros
I like the customization features, the work flow options, and it's compatibility with many file types.
It makes searching for documents a breeze and keeping your content well organised in varying Projects/Sites. I particularly like the Dashboard setting on each site, that allows you to customize your overview of that project, giving visual to members, who is working on what files, and a live browser frame to keep you in the loop if your project is website based.
Cons
The interface could use some work, I find the usability takes some time to get into in order to unlock all the features and functionality available to you. The documentation is a useful assistant in getting around the software.
- Industry: Consumer Electronics
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Rigid, outdated document management and content sharing platform
We used Alfresco as the company's main document management and sharing tool for several years. It was adequate but constraining, and over time the feature differential with more advanced tools became increasingly evident.
Pros
Good flexibility in adding coworkers alongside external guests to document repositories. Good security measures on stored files. Not many redeeming features beyond this.
Cons
Poor interface, with no OS integrations (only web interface), no drag & drop, counter-intuitive control placement, key features nestled deep into menus.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Easy for sharing files securely
Generally good for storing, organizing and securing files. It's just a little tricky when you want to actually work in files.
Pros
It's a great system for organizing files in a secure way - access control is excellent. It's easy for version control too.
Cons
What I don't like is that you can't have two people editing a document at the same time. We have some sensitive reporting stored there, but it makes it hard if two of us want to work in it at the same time.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Alfresco is a strong ECM platform
Overall experience for the users has been exceptional. The system performs well and is a very reliable platform for our ECM.
Pros
The team collaboration and shared file features.
Cons
Limiting the deployment model to just docker made initial deployment difficult.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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really restrictive software for external collaborators
I am a user logged into another business with the goal of delivering files to them and I've found it to be really not end user friendly.
Pros
It can make your life easier as it does not demand special software to be installed on your terminal, just a web browser is enough.
Cons
Depending on your permissions the software won't let you do simple things, like delete or move or copy files you uploaded by mistake in an incorrect folder. It won't let you know of the progress of your uploads or let you know when they are done, a really big problem for big files.
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Works great for lots of users
great group site
Pros
easy to build work flows and group projects. Can build custom sites for groups. Has a good admin section. can easily add users and make groups. Lots of features.
Cons
Can take a while to setup, hard to customize when out a lot of work and searching forums. with the api was a bit better
- Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Very nice software
Help me store my documents in one place and also helped me to attach documents and pictures to Openmaint property management solution.
Pros
The software displays Good picture quality and it is easy to use and it connects to my favorite database software Postgresql. More over it is open source, that give everyone opportunity to test it and see what stoof it is made of. I really appreciate Alfresco for developing such a good thing.
Cons
I really like this software but the only thing I found a bit difficult was the installation especially to install it to work with an existing Postgresql. There is no much information on how to do that but I found one after much search in the internet
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Perfect for content management
Pros
It is a great tool for content management, you have metadata approval flows and anything related to this subject
Cons
The integration with other platforms is not that easy and could definitely be improved, other than that is fine
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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One of the best Enterprise Content Management systems in the market
Best ECM for SMB enterprises with very less investment
Pros
Easy to install and configure by just following the documentation
Good search support for full text.
Architecture supports cloud for deployment.
Cons
Plugin development is easy as it is explained in the document. Resource availability for developing plugins not available in the market
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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A stable file management tool
Pros
The customization you can give to all your file management structure, the user different levels of security access you can define, and the stability of its platform
Cons
Performance is affected when managing large size files, you may want to make periodical back ups to prevent this problem
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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If you need a repository of document for you company, this sotfware will be useful for you.
Pros
Have free version, work fine for large number of users. Is a good way for centralize documents manage (for exemple, quality system)
Cons
Free version only permit associate an user for administrator, if this person abandon your user, you lost yours documents. will present compatibility problems on depend of Java version an browsers.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
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- Industry: Research
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Good CMS and supports extensible.
Good Content and document management.
Pros
We can add our own work flows.
It support good search on the documents.
Good versioning capabilities.
Support many document types
Cons
It is browser compatibility issues
There are some problem when uploading large files.
It would be good if they add more APIs to integrate
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Alfresco test
We use previous version of alfresco and we have a good performance iin our product, now i am reviewing Alfresco One and there are many good features that can be used in new projects.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Alfresco
Pros
I like that is used as an online source document library. Everything is in one place and you can upload new versions of documents.
Cons
It's harder to assign users and also a little more challenging to upload new versions, although it is doable.
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Software de gestión de archivos eficaz
Es muy exequible y util, al momento de controlar y generar tareas documentales
Pros
Su manera de organizar y controlar la documentación
Cons
Sus limitaciones en acceso, todo lo demás es excelente
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Alfresco Revie
Pros
Um ótimo gerenciador de conteúdo empresarial e que agrega muito no nosso dia a dia
Cons
Creio que apenas é um pouco complicado para implementar novas funções
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Utilização do Alfresco
Pros
Sua versão gratuita é uma solução muito incrível e que atende muito bem as empresas
Cons
Existe uma leve dificuldade em implementar a solução gratuita