We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Microsoft OneDrive based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."
"It gives you access to important files from virtually anywhere."
"It helps you keep organized."
"It's pretty easy to learn. Once someone taught me, I was able to navigate it quite easily."
"The most valuable feature is to be able to modify the file online and keep it stored on the cloud, since it is not necessary to download it to make modifications."
"Image management is great since the search is simple, and accessing images with labels is easy."
"It is well integrated with other Microsoft products."
"The stability of Microsoft OneDrive is very good, it is reliable. There were multiple instances where I had lost my valuable data on hard drives in several other places. However, with Microsoft OneDrive, I've never lost a single file."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"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."
"No one gets an alert when files are deleted."
"The online application is quite limited, for this and other Office offerings."
"OneDrive is a bit behind competing products like Dropbox and Box."
"Support has not been the same since the beginning of COVID lockdowns."
"The technical support is really very bad."
"Recent functionality changes have actually made the product more confusing to use."
"I think it should be more user-friendly with more tutorials on the full scale of the program."
"The solution has sub-folders, which are visible to various team members. If you want to ensure the information is private, you would need to have a certain level of seniority in the office."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while Microsoft OneDrive is ranked 4th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 19 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while Microsoft OneDrive is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft OneDrive writes "A transparent and self-explanatory storage system for data and files". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Documentum, OpenText Extended ECM and DocuWare, whereas Microsoft OneDrive is most compared with SharePoint, Dropbox, Box, Atlassian Confluence and Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere.
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