- Model type and metadata capabilities
- Categories, searches and the tree structure of information
- Capabilities to improve ECM services and development processes
- Open-source model
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Document domain experts can model type and hierarchical associations and metadata constraints in a declarative way.
What is most valuable?
How has it helped my organization?
One of Alfresco's strengths is the data modeling. Document domain experts can model type and hierarchical associations and metadata constraints in a declarative way (such as an XML definition).
Moreover, Alfresco added a graphical user interface model manager in the last product version, so users that don't know XML formalisms are able to build models.
Alfresco supports category concepts, so users can categorize all documents and add expressiveness to data and conduct more powerful searches.
Alfresco services can be extended in a simple and well-designed way, such as Maven and pre-designed Alfresco module package Java projects. Learning paths are well documented and developers can add your new ECM services at the top of the platform.
The Alfresco community source code is public, so developers can study it or extend it in the desired way.
What needs improvement?
We would like to see improvement in the numbers of documents that can be managed by the repository. We would like them to introduce NoSQL DBMS for modeling metadata and document types.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have used the Alfresco ECM platform since 2009.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
For large repository sets, the architecture must be well sized.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product uses state-of-the-art J2EE frameworks and libraries.
How are customer service and support?
I rate technical support a 3.5/5.
What other advice do I have?
Involve an Alfresco partner for the project. The training is basic. Buy Alfresco certifications and boot camp trainings.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We are an Alfresco Strategic Partner.
Consultant with 201-500 employees
Some of the user interface could be more intuitive but rapid deployment and ease of installation are valuable.
Valuable Features:
The features which are most valuable to us are rapid deployment, ease of installation, ease of use, and Linux platform support.
Room for Improvement:
Some of the user interface could be more intuitive, such as the new record category, where the expression is a term and not really a dynamically evaluated expression as it might imply.
Use of Solution:
I have been using the solution for 3 months.
Deployment Issues:
Alfresco was a very smooth deployment, but the Records Management module 2.2.0 needed a forced deployment: total time to deploy (without file plan setup) was less than 1 day.
Stability Issues:
No issues with stability.
Scalability Issues:
No issues with scalability.
Initial Setup:
The initial setup was very simple.
Implementation Team:
We implemented in-house.
ROI:
We are still evaluating the ROI.
Cost and Licensing Advice:
Daily cost is insignificant: just storage and backup.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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