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

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"We standardized our CIS log processing with CA View. We support a whole bunch of LPARs, about 80 or so. When we go to an LPAR, we know just where the CIS log is, it's in CA View, and we know how to get to it, we don't have to search around for it.""It's easy to add more space to it when you need and to. If you're producing large reports it's easy to increase so you can handle the new volume that may come along."

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"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.""I would like them to consider document capture functionality.""I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."

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"I believe they do probably have a GUI interface for the laptop, so you can just use the interface instead of the mainframe ISPF interface. I think that's already available but, if not, that would be my only issue.""There was one customer we were trying convert over, and it was complicated. There were retention criteria which seemed a little more limited than with some of the other products."

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  • "It is cheaper compared to head-to-head competitors."
  • "There are costs for any upgrade or additional functions."
  • "If you buy Alfresco through a partner, there is usually a OEM licensing option."
  • "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."
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  • "It requires other pieces of CA software and license keys, thing like that. That's one thing to keep in mind. It requires CA Common Services in order to actually be licensed to run on LPAR."
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    Also Known As
    Unicenter CA-View Output Archival and Viewing
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    Overview

    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.

    CA View is an automated archival and retrieval system that provides immediate and flexible online viewing of mainframe and distributed output. Its repository is capable of housing many types of documents and file types to give you an easy mechanism for selectively viewing and managing a variety of data types. CA View integrates with other solutions to automate the flow of reports between mainframe and distributed platforms, offering a solution that grows with changing business needs.

    Sample Customers
    Over 1,300 companies from 180 different countries. Including EuroStar, Saks Fifth Avenue, NASA Langley Research Center, and KLM.
    DHL, Intergrupo
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company10%
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    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business80%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Alfresco is ranked 3rd in Document Management Software with 10 reviews while CA View is ranked 21st in Document Management Software. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while CA View is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CA View writes "Helps us secure viewing of customer accounts; scalability streamlines production of large reports". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Extended ECM, OpenText Documentum and IBM FileNet, whereas CA View is most compared with .

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