Alfresco Reviews

We used Alfresco as a document management system for automating and digitizing manual forms. Those were the main use cases.

The digitalization of workflow, forms, operations, and business processes has improved our organization.

I use Alfresco primarily to look up documents. However, it is not as user-friendly as the previous solution, Nautilus, which I was more familiar with due to my involvement in its configuration and setup.

It is a basic solution where you store documents and perform searches. Alfresco allows broad searches with many index fields that you can search on, although the created fields and their values may not be intuitive.

I mainly use Alfresco for content management, workflow, integration to scanning solutions, and reduction.

The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata. Other good features are that it's open-source and allows a lot of customization.

The best feature is extensibility. Hands down, the best feature of Alfresco is what is "not there yet". The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way. Alfresco, as a company, is supporting this approach by improving the Alfresco Maven SDK and extending native APIs.

Alfresco plays a core part in our business, where we use the platform as a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) as opposed to a "simple" CMS. We have developed a proprietary solution to integrate Alfresco with a third party Learning Management System (LMS), which is the key success of our business.

Document Management, Content Model Manager, MS Office integration, Collaboration & Sharing, Workflow, Digital Asset Management, support for standards such as Content Management Interoperability Interface (CMIS).

We use the Alfresco product to keep track of project information (documentation), being it email conversation or office documents. Content can be easily found via Free Text Search or metadata search.

I have also been involved in a lot of Alfresco projects in the publishing area where really come into its best. The publishing area has high demands on a flexible content management solution and business process engine. Alfresco can be used to support full digitalizing of book production and publishing.

Alfresco is a very good product that has very good inbuilt features. At the same time, it is customizable and we can customize this product the way we want. Surf framework makes your work easy for customization.

With its content model feature, we can create our own content model with our own metadata.

There are other valuable features in this product such as the rules facility to automate documents and integrated Activiti BPM engine for workflows.

We are a service-based company and are providing solutions for other organizations. In the other organizations where we provide this solution, their work is reduced in terms of maintaining documents and facilities like record management and automated workflow are even better.

We are using Alfresco for collaboration and IT project records. I am only using it for team sites. My sites are not really collaborative, but more sharing info and documents. I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar.

Sharing is easier than using file shares. Hopefully less duplication of files.

• Document repository
• Metadata
• Searching

I would like them to consider document capture functionality.

Currently, for document capture functionality (ocr, read document metadata automatically, automatic doument classification), Alfresco needs to be integrated with document capture such as : kofax, ephesoft, etc.

While other Alfresco competitors already make document capture functionality as their default functionality.