Alfresco Content Services Reviews

The most remarkable thing about Alfresco ECM is the unification of tools, the design and structure of tools that allow the design and fulfillment of the rules of documentary processes and business collaboration. Alfresco is a complex and wide-ranging tool in the Document Management and Collaboration segments.

What could improve is the ease of use in the overall communication tool. Currently a mediun user is required to operate the system and thus achieve a correct document flow. Sometimes Cmis interaction could be a problem, most cmis programs have some dificult to connect like cmisSync.

Alfresco One can handle pretty much any job you throw at it. Built on java, it's industrial strength, and there's no end to the number of programmers available to develop custom modules for your specific needs. Government departments use Alfresco One. NASA uses Alfresco One. Some of the biggest names and most successful people in the world use Alfresco One at their company or organization. Soundly beats Microsoft Sharepoint, another document system, in terms of all technical achievement, openness, transparency, auditing, and overall quality.

The license fee can be costly if you're an upstart new small business with no or low funding. For this reason there's the free version, Alfresco Community Edition. Built on java means you might pay a bit more for helpers to build for it, however, if Alfresco fits your needs, you probably won't mind. The Alfresco Community Edition forums are not maybe as active as other software's forums, probably because the number of people actually reaching the point of greatness in their lives and their careers where they are actually able to go paperless either on their own or with their organization's documents, is relatively fewer, than the billions of people whose documents are still on paper, and still impossible to search through, and still disorganized.

Good flexibility in adding coworkers alongside external guests to document repositories. Good security measures on stored files. Not many redeeming features beyond this.

Poor interface, with no OS integrations (only web interface), no drag & drop, counter-intuitive control placement, key features nestled deep into menus.

I like the customization features, the work flow options, and it's compatibility with many file types. It makes searching for documents a breeze and keeping your content well organised in varying Projects/Sites. I particularly like the Dashboard setting on each site, that allows you to customize your overview of that project, giving visual to members, who is working on what files, and a live browser frame to keep you in the loop if your project is website based.

The interface could use some work, I find the usability takes some time to get into in order to unlock all the features and functionality available to you. The documentation is a useful assistant in getting around the software.

In the first place for being Open Source, The information security and integrity, the access control to access each document and the way it keeps track of every changes.

Still requires programming to implement specific functions and the learning curve that is not as short as one could desire.

easy to build work flows and group projects. Can build custom sites for groups. Has a good admin section. can easily add users and make groups. Lots of features.

Can take a while to setup, hard to customize when out a lot of work and searching forums. with the api was a bit better

It's a great system for organizing files in a secure way - access control is excellent. It's easy for version control too.

What I don't like is that you can't have two people editing a document at the same time. We have some sensitive reporting stored there, but it makes it hard if two of us want to work in it at the same time.

The team collaboration and shared file features.

Limiting the deployment model to just docker made initial deployment difficult.

The customization you can give to all your file management structure, the user different levels of security access you can define, and the stability of its platform

Performance is affected when managing large size files, you may want to make periodical back ups to prevent this problem

Have free version, work fine for large number of users. Is a good way for centralize documents manage (for exemple, quality system)

Free version only permit associate an user for administrator, if this person abandon your user, you lost yours documents. will present compatibility problems on depend of Java version an browsers.

The software displays Good picture quality and it is easy to use and it connects to my favorite database software Postgresql. More over it is open source, that give everyone opportunity to test it and see what stoof it is made of. I really appreciate Alfresco for developing such a good thing.

I really like this software but the only thing I found a bit difficult was the installation especially to install it to work with an existing Postgresql. There is no much information on how to do that but I found one after much search in the internet

Easy to install and configure by just following the documentation Good search support for full text. Architecture supports cloud for deployment.

Plugin development is easy as it is explained in the document. Resource availability for developing plugins not available in the market

We can add our own work flows. It support good search on the documents. Good versioning capabilities. Support many document types

It is browser compatibility issues There are some problem when uploading large files. It would be good if they add more APIs to integrate

It is a great tool for content management, you have metadata approval flows and anything related to this subject

The integration with other platforms is not that easy and could definitely be improved, other than that is fine

The document manager is really powerful, flexible, scalable, and robust. It supports different use cases and meets most of the static document management needs (documents that do not flow through the organization).

Workflow and business process management functionalities are really complex to configure for complex real-life processes. This makes it very costly to build a complete solution (in time and money). But more importantly, it is very difficult to maintain the application, every change is complex, time-consuming, and generates instability in the configured workflow.

It can make your life easier as it does not demand special software to be installed on your terminal, just a web browser is enough.

Depending on your permissions the software won't let you do simple things, like delete or move or copy files you uploaded by mistake in an incorrect folder. It won't let you know of the progress of your uploads or let you know when they are done, a really big problem for big files.

Um ótimo gerenciador de conteúdo empresarial e que agrega muito no nosso dia a dia

Creio que apenas é um pouco complicado para implementar novas funções

I like that is used as an online source document library. Everything is in one place and you can upload new versions of documents.

It's harder to assign users and also a little more challenging to upload new versions, although it is doable.

Sua versão gratuita é uma solução muito incrível e que atende muito bem as empresas

Existe uma leve dificuldade em implementar a solução gratuita

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