Alfresco vs. OpenText eDOCS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alfresco
Score 9.9 out of 10
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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
OpenText eDOCS
Score 8.1 out of 10
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OpenText eDOCS is presented as a light-footprint, cost-effective and highly-flexible enterprise content management (ECM) solution for Legal, Corporate Legal, Public Sector and Professional Service organizations and corporate law departments. eDOCS aims to ensure sensitive work product is securely managed throughout the content lifecycle, while remaining easily accessible for day-to-day operations, to enable users to deliver exceptional enterprise content services to their clients.N/A
Pricing
AlfrescoOpenText eDOCS
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AlfrescoOpenText eDOCS
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AlfrescoOpenText eDOCS
Features
AlfrescoOpenText eDOCS
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Alfresco
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
OpenText eDOCS
8.6
Ratings
8% above category average
Content capture & imaging3.10 Ratings8.80 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving9.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Document management10.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Records management8.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Content search & retrieval10.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration8.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Content publishing & creation8.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance9.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management8.90 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Automated workflows9.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Artificial intelligence8.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Mobile support3.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Integration10.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
AlfrescoOpenText eDOCS
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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8.1
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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Usability
9.9
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Support Rating
7.0
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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User Testimonials
AlfrescoOpenText eDOCS
Likelihood to Recommend
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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OpenText is a solid platform, we enjoyed using it. Definitely would recommend it. Easy to navigate through with great support
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Pros
  • 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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  • Secure.
  • Accessibility.
  • User experience.
  • Ease of use.
  • One stop solution for all types of file/data storage.
  • Can be accessed via mobile, tablet, laptops.
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Cons
  • 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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  • New users may need help to set the features.
  • Powerful computer is needed.
  • Only professional users.
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Likelihood to Renew
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
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
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
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
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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I have not used another electronic content management platform in my current role. OpenText eDOCS is a cost-effective and reliable product that has given the best services. The product operations have highly enhanced my team to finish many projects within the set deadline. It is easy to learn how it performs with an effective customer service team. It provides security to all stored documents with large accommodation space for volumes of documents.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Pros: providing secure application so that we do not worry about security perspective much.
  • Pros : Ease of use.
  • Pros : Accessible via mobile, tablets, cloud, laptops.
  • Cons: Complex.
  • Cons : Pricing can be improved.
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