Aurea Process vs. Alfresco

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Aurea Process
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Aurea Process (formerly CX Process) from Aurea Software in Austin is a business process management offering, based on Savvion BPM.
$200,000
per year
Alfresco
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
The Alfresco platform, from Hyland, delivers comprehensive cloud-native content services. It is used to intelligently activate processes and content to accelerate the flow of business.N/A
Pricing
Aurea ProcessAlfresco
Editions & Modules
License
$200,000
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Aurea ProcessAlfresco
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Aurea ProcessAlfresco
Features
Aurea ProcessAlfresco
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
5.3
Ratings
43% below category average
Alfresco
-
Ratings
Dashboards6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
5.8
Ratings
36% below category average
Alfresco
-
Ratings
Process designer6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Process simulation7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules engine5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
SOA support5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Process player7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Model execution5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
4.0
Ratings
71% below category average
Alfresco
-
Ratings
Social collaboration tools4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
4.0
Ratings
69% below category average
Alfresco
-
Ratings
Content management4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Aurea Process
-
Ratings
Alfresco
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Content capture & imaging00 Ratings3.10 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Document management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Records management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Content search & retrieval00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Content publishing & creation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Automated workflows00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Artificial intelligence00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile support00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Integration00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Aurea ProcessAlfresco
Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Aurea ProcessAlfresco
Likelihood to Recommend
The tool has potential. Its capabilities and visual aspects could be considered rather basic but this might improve, particularly if the business intelligence/analytics aspect is leveraged. Once running well, it could allow (perhaps smaller) companies to successfully improve their customers' experiences through digitalizing customer journey - and we all know that customer loyalty goes a long way. However, whether or not the tool is comprehensive enough to deliver this for larger companies with more complex, multi- and omni-channel interactions is yet to be seen...
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If you have regulatory or business needs that require saving email into Alfresco and you are using Outlook for Mac, you may need to perform significant customization to make it work. Additionally, if you will have users that will be members to a large numbers of sites over time, you need to thoroughly explore what functionality will be degraded or lost and how to mitigate the impact. Other than these two scenarios, I cannot think of any scenarios where Alfresco would not be well suited to an organization's needs.
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Pros
  • Face-lifted platforms: CX Messenger (formerly Sonic), CX Monitor (formerly Actional), CX Process (formerly Savvion)
  • User-friendly UI
  • Relatively painless implementation
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  • Integration with other applications, namely Drupal and Moodle, was simple and works beautifully.
  • The UI is intuitive, clean, and friendly. Users have required little training for basic functionality.
  • We have been pleased with the overall system performance of Alfresco Enterprise Content Management.
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Cons
  • Standard edition is significantly lighter touch than the (pricier) Enterprise version
  • There are similar solutions on the market that are competitively prices and offer positive user experience
  • Data migration can be tricky at times
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  • Alfresco Process Services and Alfresco Application Development Framework integration makes for best functionality/application of ECM.
  • Use case alignment - Marketing content and documentation of specific business requirements and user stories being available as reference material/documentation.
  • Integration with multiple silos for content.
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Likelihood to Renew
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As per the current market and the line of products that are available for content and document management system, Alfresco is a very good option compared to other systems in terms of features and cost. Plus the community support is great. Also since the product is open source, it can be extended or understood in a better way.
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Usability
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The UI is very intuitive, most of our users figure out how to use the platform by themselves, so there's not much training needed.
You can upload files by using the web drag and drop, WebDAV, FTP, and more.
Most of the platform already works as-is so you can just deploy it using Docker and it's mostly ready to go.
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Support Rating
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I am not big fan of Alfresco Content Services' support; it works on its own speed and sometimes it becomes challenging to achieve business needs. However, I appreciate regular delivery of security patches and updates
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Implementation Rating
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Process was relatively smooth and overall, downtime minimal. MSI was very responsive to our needs and made the transition easier than it otherwise might have been.
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Alternatives Considered
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The integration is very easy and can be done with minimal time. The features like sending email, inbuilt integration with CAMEl, MULE, BOX, etc. In addition to this, the adoption of activiti-7 (the microservice version) wins the race against other tools. As the infrastructure and application modules can be deployed independently.
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Return on Investment
  • As our customers vary in size and maturity, the ROI ranges accordingly.
  • For younger, smaller businesses this is a useful tool. Digitalization of he customer journey has certainly helped save time and efforts in many cases.
  • For more mature market players the tool is not always comprehensive enough. Dashboard and report personalization take time and efforts, and sometimes it feels that a dedicated BI tool would be a more suitable solution.
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  • It definitely has a positive ROI in the overall business, as content management has become easier and more centralized.
  • Video and image content management has become a major plus, as they play an important role in dynamic digital marketing. Once the code is written to accommodate image and videos, we can change this content any time depending on the season of the year, what products we are looking to market, and to what type of clients.
  • It helps with easy control of the system with the business teams rather than having control with the technology teams. Hence it makes it easy to customize and make changes at any time. This also reduces the overlap that technology has with business and helps treat both of them as separate entities.
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ScreenShots

Aurea Process Screenshots

Screenshot of CX Platform enables leading companies to modernize, automate, and monitor their back office by bridging legacy SOA solutions to modern micro-service and container-based architectures.

Alfresco Screenshots

Screenshot of Alfresco Control CenterScreenshot of Alfresco