![]() | Mordhi Alenazi Business Application Development Manager at NWC |
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
"The pricing works for us."
"For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance."
Founded in 2005, Alfresco is a leading enterprise content management and document management platform. Alfresco allows users to easily access, manage, share, and retain content in the same way that they work i.e. in the cloud, on mobile devices, at physical locations, or even through a combination of all of these.
Alfresco is based on open technology, making integration of the platform into the enterprise cost-effective, transparent and secure.
These are the core benefits of using Alfresco:
SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.
Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.
Alfresco is ranked 10th in Enterprise Content Management while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 12 reviews. Alfresco is rated 0.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Plan, plan, plan. Over-budget". Alfresco is most compared with OpenText Content Suite Platform, Nuxeo, OpenText Documentum, IBM FileNet and Atlassian Confluence, whereas SharePoint is most compared with WordPress, Citrix ShareFile, Box, OpenText Content Suite Platform and Drupal.
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