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Alfresco vs OpenText Extended ECM comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

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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OpenText Extended ECM support is knowledgeable but inconsistent, with delays in assigning experts unless escalated through vendors.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
3.2
Alfresco needs improved user interface intuitiveness, developer tools, NoSQL integration, Office 365 support, and better configuration options.
Sentiment score
4.9
OpenText Extended ECM needs improvements in UI, stability, integration, analytics, workflows, documentation, performance, records management, and architecture.
 

Scalability Issues

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Alfresco offers robust scalability and high availability with seamless clustering and efficient metadata management for disaster recovery.
Sentiment score
7.4
OpenText Extended ECM is praised for its impressive scalability, supporting diverse organizational needs with both on-premise and cloud capabilities.
 

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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Enterprise users find OpenText Extended ECM expensive and complex but valuable for consolidating data management solutions despite costs.
 

Stability Issues

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Alfresco is stable but benefits from experienced administrators, correct settings, and appropriate architecture to handle high demands.
Sentiment score
7.3
OpenText Extended ECM is stable and reliable, scoring highly, but performance may vary with usage and load.
 

Valuable Features

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Alfresco offers document management, customization, collaboration, and search features, appreciated for ease of use and extensibility.
Sentiment score
8.3
OpenText Extended ECM integrates with SAP, offering strong security, metadata management, customizable workflows, and seamless content connection across applications.
 

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)
OpenText Extended ECM
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (11th)
 

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 OpenText Extended ECM is 11.4%, up from 10.0% 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.
Bala Raju - PeerSpot reviewer
Permissions management is really good and offer classification categories for searching data
There are some workflows which need to be more user-friendly. We need to improve here on the specific map of the developers. Also, the support from OpenText is really difficult. Honestly, I had a very bad experience on this. It's really difficult to reach out to OpenText. Even for small things, OpenText is not transparent. As a professional, I don't think that's the right way. This is also one of the disadvantages; many customers are moving out of OpenText. I saw multiple instances when I was working with new RFPs or new opportunities. So many customers are raising the same concern, and they are looking for alternate products. That's been the case many times at the project level. With OpenText, we ourselves often have to resolve the issue before OpenText people provide a solution.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
14%
Computer Software Company
10%
Insurance Company
10%
Government
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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 ...
What do you like most about OpenText Content Suite Platform?
We also have a module on top of the Content Server called WebReports that has been one of the things that helped us facilitate the workflow and give managers good reporting and visibility into wher...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenText Content Suite Platform?
OpenText itself is a too expensive tool. But why the reason customers opt for is OpenText is one of the best and provides very good complex data with their managers.
What needs improvement with OpenText Content Suite Platform?
There are some workflows which need to be more user-friendly. We need to improve here on the specific map of the developers. Also, the support from OpenText is really difficult. Honestly, I had a v...
 

Also Known As

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OpenText Content Suite Platform, OpenText Core Share
 

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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.
ATCO Australia, MSIG Asia, Orica, Salt River Project
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