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Alfresco vs Answerbase comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Scalability Issues

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Alfresco offers robust scalability and high availability with seamless clustering and efficient metadata management for disaster recovery.
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Valuable Features

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Alfresco offers document management, customization, collaboration, and search features, appreciated for ease of use and extensibility.
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Room For Improvement

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3.2
Alfresco needs improved user interface intuitiveness, developer tools, NoSQL integration, Office 365 support, and better configuration options.
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Stability Issues

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Alfresco is stable but benefits from experienced administrators, correct settings, and appropriate architecture to handle high demands.
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Customer Service

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Alfresco offers helpful customer service, albeit slow technical support; community forums and Hyland training are also beneficial.
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Setup Cost

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Alfresco provides a free Community Edition and a scalable Enterprise Edition with per-server licensing for advanced features.
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Categories and Ranking

Alfresco
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
10th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
3.2
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Document Management Software (4th)
Answerbase
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
27th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Knowledge Management Software (21st), Community Platforms (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of Alfresco is 7.6%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Answerbase is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Karthi Keyan - PeerSpot reviewer
Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft
I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen. Alfresco also needs to be well-integrated with Microsoft, as it's currently a nuisance for customers who rely on Microsoft's Office 365 solutions. There's a pretty obvious gap in the overlap between SharePoint when customers go to O365 and are presented with the SharePoint license and storage to start with, which Alfresco isn't taking advantage of.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Insurance Company
10%
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Questions from the Community

Would Alfresco give an organization more benefits in terms of cost, features & security as compared to Sharepoint?
Alfresco scores are high on all features of an ECM solution and tools. Back office processing, rated as 3.36 good. Business Process Application 3.55 Good to excellent. Document Management 4.12...
What needs improvement with Alfresco?
The configuration of Alfresco is a big challenge. The index fields and their values are not intuitive, making it difficult to find documents. You often need a cross-reference document to navigate c...
What is your primary use case for Alfresco?
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 ...
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Sample Customers

Over 1,300 companies from 180 different countries. Including EuroStar, Saks Fifth Avenue, NASA Langley Research Center, and KLM.
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