We performed a comparison between Alfresco and IBM ECM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The content management is all about you as you can make the same content for minimal purpose solutions applications."
"The vertical scalability, as we can use it across some of our applications."
"The tool is a very stable solution with high availability and no information leakage. It has built-in API integration on-site. You can integrate with other components and applications like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, etc."
"The scalability is a valuable feature, that we're able to display our documents to so many people."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"I would recommend not going with ECM 8 and going with FileNet instead. It seems like that is the future of the lower-volume repository. It seems like they are moving away from ECM 8.5 so I think we're going to have some challenges coming up, getting off of that technology."
"I would like to see seamless application integration."
"I think it's already getting away from Java applets. A lot of our users struggle with keeping up to date with Java versioning, so a lot of the functions they're doing, like printing, emailing, and even some of the viewing, they're struggling with."
"The development platform is not local. For example, you need 100 days in IBM, whereas other platforms, like ServiceNow, need only 20 days."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while IBM ECM is ranked 13th in Enterprise Content Management with 16 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while IBM ECM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM ECM writes "Datacap provides granularity and any level of customization. Solution development and delivery time needs to be improved". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Documentum and IBM FileNet, whereas IBM ECM is most compared with IBM FileNet, Mobius Content Services Platform, OpenText Documentum, SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management and Hyland OnBase.
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