Alfresco Content Services vs Asana | TrustRadius

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Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 58 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 1284 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Alfresco Content Services

Asana

Content capture & imaging

File sync, storage & archiving

Document management

Records management

Content search & retrieval

Enterprise content collaboration

Content publishing & creation

Security, risk management & information governance

Contract lifecycle management

Automated workflows

Artificial intelligence

Mobile support

Integration

Alfresco Content Services

Asana

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Team Collaboration

Support for Agile Methodology

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Document Management

Email integration

Mobile Access

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Alfresco Content Services

Asana

Project & financial reporting

Integration with accounting software

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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Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer

Quality Matters ProgramE-Learning, 11-50 employees

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Timelines: With Asana, you can create Gantt charts that show you preceding/needed action items. When a part of a project is delayed, you can track how that will affect the forward trajectory of the project.
User management / Roles in relationship to tasks: Asana allows you to see individual users and assign them tasks in an overall project, while also being able to see what items are needed as a whole. It allows you to see who is doing what and when.

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CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Simply Heaven DesignMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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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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Verified User

Account Manager in Research & Development

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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The inbox feature can be a little overwhelming if you are work with Asana just from its project boards and only checking it periodically. It would be great if it auto-cleared once a project/task is marked complete.
Email notifications can get excessive. You have complete control over them but initially, they can be annoying until you set the frequency you want them. It would be better if this was set during the sign-up process.
Notes, discussions, and attachments in subtasks sometimes go unnoticed if working from the main project board.

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Director of Marketing & Communications

787 NetworksMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alfresco Content Services 9.0

Based on 9 answers

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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Verified User

Former Employee in Information Technology

Media Production Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Asana 9.5

Based on 35 answers

Asana is adding more useful features and it makes the work of their entire team more organized and more efficient. It really helps us in achieving greater achievements as a team. It helps us to earn more revenue since we have more satisfied clients, simply because we are able to finish their project on time or even before the due date.

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Brent Lionel Mausisa

Co-Founder

2for1 Virtual ExpertsInternet, 1-10 employees

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Usability

Alfresco Content Services 5.0

Based on 1 answer

Alfresco Content Services' UI has never been its strength from the beginning. Therefore, rating it from a usability standpoint, I will not rank it high. However, Alfresco Content Services can easily be integrated with any application and leveraged as a backend CMS or DM system. With the new Angular-based UI approach, it's very much possible to create custom UI on top of it as required.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Asana 9.0

Based on 24 answers

It is very user-friendly. Takes a new employee an hour to start figuring out how the system works. That's an important factor. You don't want to encounter the issue where employees need a week to understand how the system works. For example, JIRA, I tried using it for a week and I still don't understand the complicated layout. Asana has a simple interface. Once you see it, you get it type of program.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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Asana 8.4

Based on 4 answers

Working with Asana on a daily basis

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Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

Alfresco Content Services 8.0

Based on 3 answers

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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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Asana 7.8

Based on 94 answers

They don't fix everything, but they have certainly gone the extra mile for us. When we were frustrated with a recent change that altered our default view of every project, changing it from all projects being visible to just incomplete projects being visible, they wrote a custom script to change all of our default views back for us, so we didn't have to manually click 3,000 times (we have over a thousand projects).

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Product Management

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

Alfresco Content Services 9.0

Based on 2 answers

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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Verified User

Executive in Legal

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

All software has some pros and some cons. Alfresco has some good pluses, and suits our environment very well. It fit perfectly in the place that we are working on. That is why we decided to go with this software. Overall, the kind of content management that needs to be done in an organization is what would determine which software to use.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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I currently use Trello to manage social content instead of Asana. It's very easy to view content, drag and drop cards/tasks and tag colleagues in items that need attention. However, I prefer Asana from a project management standpoint and think that it's a much superior platform overall. Our agency uses Lattice for people management and performance reviews, which is different than Asana but I think functions similarly. There are places to input goals/tasks, enter in updates and view progress on outstanding items.

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Senior Specialist, Influencer Marketing

EmpowerMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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Asana 8.2

Based on 1 answer

I used this tool on a daily basis at work and it runs as a solid rock

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Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Instant document lookup - No paper files to mail which saves in all areas of postage, truck delivery, physical storage warehouse space, printing, etc
No longer losing important documents - Previously with paper files things would go missing and those could be costly reports/assessments.
Ability to secure documents and provide access to only those who should be allowed to see that content

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Programmer Analyst

Edmonton Public SchoolsPrimary/Secondary Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Asana helped us complete the massive project of redesigning our company's website
Asana has helped me in my weekly meetings with my manager because I can clearly see what I accomplished the previous week and what I'm currently working on
Asana encourages collaboration and teamwork

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Digital Marketing Specialist

MedVetCivic & Social Organization, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Alfresco Content Services Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$10*

* per user per month

Asana Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium	$13.49¹
Business	$30.49¹

Per Month

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Rating Summary

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