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."The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"Document repository."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"Most of our customers are very fond of the upgraded smart user interface."
"We can configure the solution with any industry's products per customer requirements."
"WebReports has a lot of capabilities that offer good opportunities to customize the applications the way we want to."
"The ability to add metadata and use that to categorize information is a valuable feature of OpenText Extended ECM."
"An SAP user can store documents directly into OpenText without a connector."
"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."
"It's a very good solution."
"Scalability is great. We can extend areas horizontally and vertically."
"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."
"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 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."
"The solution should work better with partners and be more developer-friendly."
"We had some issues with scalability in the production. So, I would rate it a five out of ten."
"User interface needs improvement (at least in the version we are using, desktop client)."
"Pricing could be improved and the stability or the performance needs improvement, which is very important."
"The architecture needs improvement, as it's complex."
"OpenText Extended ECM's user interface could be improved."
"The tool's documentation is not proper and has missing information like steps."
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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