Alfresco Reviews

Name: Alfresco
Brand: Hyland
Rating: 4 (10 reviews)

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The Alfresco Digital Business Platform offers open, secure content services to let you unlock the value from your most important business information. Give users access to their content wherever and however they work with Alfresco’s open, flexible, and highly scalable cloud-native content services platform. Easily integrate and connect with everyday business applications. Find, view, collaborate on, govern, and securely share digital content—and get information to the right person at the right time.

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Alfresco is the #3 ranked solution in top Document Management Software and #9 ranked solution in top Enterprise Content Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Alfresco an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Alfresco is most commonly compared to SharePoint: Alfresco vs SharePoint. Alfresco is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 13% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Karthi Keyan

Head Of Information Technology at UTSB Management

May 3, 2022

I mainly use Alfresco for content management, workflow, integration to scanning solutions, and reduction The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata. Other good features are that it's open-source and allows a lot of customization. I think the…

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it_user574515

Works with 11-50 employees

Dec 19, 2016

There were no particular stability issues. Alfresco underwent a major refactoring in a few areas of the product, such as: * Migration from ANT to Maven building environment * Migration to Solr first, and Solr4 eventually * Introduction of Dojo JS framework * Angular2JS These changes require engineers to pay particular attention when migrating or upgrading older versions of the product. As long as they follow the recommended upgrade procedure, there wouldn't be any major issues. Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving. This is also why usually companies interested in buying Alfresco have to rely on companies that are specialized in administrating and customizing the software.

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it_user108393

Online Educator, specializing in ECM and BPM at Marver Solutions Ltd

Mar 8, 2017

No, Alfresco scales very well in the web, application, and database layers. A typical high availability installation would consist of Apache web servers in the DMZ as SSL terminators, caching of static content, URL rewrite, and load-balancing between the nodes in the Alfresco server cluster, which can be scaled separately to the web layer and the database layer. The database layer can also be scaled separately via MySQL Master-Slave or for example PostgreSQL XtraDB cluster. The meta-data (database files) and content (content files and index) is typically stored on a SAN (such as a NetApp), making it easy to support a DR scenario. You provision application files and configuration via Puppet and content files, index, and database files are managed by the SAN.

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Alfresco market share

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As of April 2024, the market share of Alfresco in the Enterprise Content Management category stands at 6.5%, marking a decrease of 32.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Content Management

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."

Room for Improvement

"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."

Pricing

"The license for Alfresco is expensive - not the maximum, but close. There are also extra costs once you start building integrations, as implementation seems to be very costly."
"There are costs for any upgrade or additional functions."
"If you buy Alfresco through a partner, there is usually a OEM licensing option."

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