Alfresco Content Services vs WordPress | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 58 reviews and ratings

Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 2601 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Alfresco Content Services

WordPress

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

WordPress

Role-based user permissions

Alfresco Content Services

WordPress

API

Internationalization / multi-language

Alfresco Content Services

WordPress

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Alfresco Content Services

WordPress

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

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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Ease of use: once a site is built using [WordPress], it is easy to make content updates. Usually, you can just copy/paste your content into a simple text editor (similar to what you would see in a word processor) within WordPress and the content will look great on the frontend of the site.
Plugins: Since [WordPress] is an industry standard CMS (content management system), most plugins are available and easy to use within WP.
Customizability: [WordPress] is great out of the box, but you can use certain page builders that allow further customizability at the page-level.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Marketing

Design Company, 11-50 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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Requires constant updates - as expected with any platform, WordPress requires constant updates - of its core files, any themes, and any plugins; which occasionally can cause issues with the overall design of your site
Lacks security - This is not just a WordPress issue, but an issue with individual plugins as well, but by default WordPress lacks basic security measures that would protect your site from hackers. Installing a security plugin is a MUST on WordPress
Over-customizable - It can be easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of themes, plugins, and options in the WordPress menu. This is not something that needs to be changed, just can take some time to work through and understand.

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Darien Chaffart

Associate Pastor

Gateway Alliance ChurchReligious Institutions, 11-50 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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Former Employee in Information Technology

Media Production Company, 1001-5000 employees

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WordPress 9.5

Based on 37 answers

My rating is based on the knowledge I have of the community that WordPress has had built around it for years now. It's as solid as it comes when you talk about community involvement and expansion. There's no other CMS out there that can match-up with it, hands down.

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Mathew Riexinger

VP of Online Marketing

mriexinger@gmail.comMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 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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Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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WordPress 8.5

Based on 17 answers

The quality of WordPress and ease of use is not comparable to other platforms. It's ideal that WordPress can be managed from any computer and mobile device since it's browser-based. Often with new software, I find there to be a significant steep learning curve; however, with WordPress it's relatively intuitive and there's plenty of available tutorials.

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Digital Marketing Manager

Orasi SoftwareComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

WordPress 9.5

Based on 3 answers

Anyone can visit WordPress.org and download a fully functional copy of WordPress free of charge. Additionally, WordPress is offered to users as open-source software, which means that anyone can customize the code to create new applications and make these available to other WordPress users.

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Martin Aranovitch

Founder, WPTrainMe.com - WordPress Training Plugin

WPTrainMe.comE-Learning, 1-10 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

WordPress 8.6

Based on 2 answers

Mostly, any performance issues have to do with using too many plugins and these can sometimes slow down the overall performance of your site. It is very tempting to start adding lots of plugins to your WordPress site, however, as there are thousands of great plugins to choose from and so many of them help you do amazing things on your site.If you begin to notice performance issues with your WordPress site (e.g. pages being slow to load), there are ways to optimize the performance of your site, but this requires learning the process. WordPress users can learn how to optimize their WordPress sites by downloading the WPTrainMe WordPress training plugin (WPTrainMe.com) and going through the detailed step-by-step WordPress optimization tutorials.

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Martin Aranovitch

Founder, WPTrainMe.com - WordPress Training Plugin

WPTrainMe.comE-Learning, 1-10 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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WordPress 8.4

Based on 15 answers

There are forums for WordPress along with the Subreddit. I understand that this is an open-source product so they don't have a company supported helpline (which isn't feasible). It is a bit of a pain trying to Google the right solution for getting help from other experts. However, the support is pretty adequate as there are plenty of resources out there.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

WordPress 7.0

Based on 1 answer

Varies by the person providing training. High marks as it's incredibly easy to find experienced individuals in your community to provide training on any aspect of WordPress from content marketing, SEO, plugin development, theme design, etc. Less than 10 though as the training is community based and expectations for a session you find may fall short.

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Verified User

Consultant in Marketing

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

WordPress 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It is very easy to find online resources to learn how to do just about anything with WordPress.

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Web Developer

BeeDragon Web ServicesInternet, 1-10 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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WordPress 9.0

Based on 11 answers

WordPress is not a great solution if you have:1) A larger site with performance / availability requirements.2) Multiple types of content you want to share - each with its own underlying data structure.3) Multiple sites you need to manage.For very small sites where these needs are not paramount, WordPress is a decent solution

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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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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Wix was considered but was then rejected once we realized we could not self-host. WordPress allows self-hosting, while Wix does not.Joomla was considered but required much more technical experience on behalf of the people who would be posting content. WordPress is much easier for people who just need to get information out there to use. There is basically no learning curve.Drupal has a small following for themes, as is the add-on market. It's not great for basic sites and blogs, so while we were considering it we found WordPress to be better in most of these regards. There is also a kind-of-steep learning curve to Drupal.

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Michael Santangelo

Junior Network Administrator

School District of the ChathamsEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

WordPress 10.0

Based on 1 answer

WordPress is completely scalable. You can get started immediately with a very simple "out-of-the box" WordPress installation and then add whatever functionality you need as and when you need it, and continue expanding. Often we will create various WordPress sites on the same domain to handle different aspects of our strategy (e.g. one site for the sales pages, product information and/or a marketing blog, another for delivering products securely through a private membership site, and another for running an affiliate program or other application), and then ties all of these sites together using a common theme and links on each of the site's menus.Additionally, WordPress offers a multisite function that allows organizations and institutions to manage networks of sites managed by separate individual site owners, but centrally administered by the parent organization. You can also expand WordPress into a social networking or community site, forums, etc.The same scalability applies to web design. You can start with a simple design and then scale things up to display sites with amazing visual features, including animations and video effects, sliding images and animated product image galleries, elements that appear and fade from visitor browsers, etc.The scaling possibilities of WordPress are truly endless.

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Martin Aranovitch

Founder, WPTrainMe.com - WordPress Training Plugin

WPTrainMe.comE-Learning, 1-10 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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There has been a positive impact of WordPress as the objective of providing e-learning is achieved to a greater extent.
It provides support to youtube, twitter , facebook etc the market can be easily built up.
Free services or domains are valuable.

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Lecturer

VidyalankarE-Learning, 51-200 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

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

Rating Summary

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