We performed a comparison between Alfresco and OpenText Extended ECM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."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."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"Scalability is great. We can extend areas horizontally and vertically."
"OpenText Extended ECM's most valuable features include permissions and security models. I also like the tool's ability to add metadata and use it to categorize information."
"Retention is useful. I have been pleased with the search functionality and the extensibility for tying it into integrations with other systems and building workflows on top of it."
"We can configure the solution with any industry's products per customer requirements."
"The tool's most valuable features are document storage, security, and compliance."
"Simplicity to roll out, features available, customization options."
"We use Core Share to share documents with external auditors or with vendors, and that prevents them from being able to get into the whole system. It is useful."
"Being able to tag metadata on documents and being able to have different workspaces in there for our documents is valuable. We do loan documents, and different types of documents have different types of retentions. We are able to categorize based on that, and we are able to do tag searching to find what we are looking for."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"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."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"The solution's performance, stability, and consistency could be improved."
"There are no additional features that I would like to see. I am pretty happy with it, but their support could be a bit better."
"The initial setup can get really complicated, and it takes time."
"I have not used it enough to start running into issues. Some of my technical guys could name a couple of things, but in terms of support, we did have challenges getting good responses from them."
"A dashboard with information would be nice to see."
"OpenText Extended ECM's user interface could be improved."
"Initially there can be stability issues due to unknown factors such as usage of the system, quantity of documents ingested, load during peak hours."
"User interface needs improvement (at least in the version we are using, desktop client)."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while OpenText Extended ECM is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Content Management with 18 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while OpenText Extended ECM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Extended ECM writes "Serves as a single source of support for the company but has scalability issues". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Documentum, IBM FileNet and Nuxeo, whereas OpenText Extended ECM is most compared with OpenText Documentum, SharePoint, IBM FileNet, Hyland OnBase and OpenText Content Manager.
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