Alfresco ECM vs Jahia

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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Executive in Legal

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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I believe that Jahia is best suited for companies where updating content online is not restricted to one or just a few people. If you own a small company/website, that does not need to change content, pages or promotions frequently then maybe Jahia will not be very useful for you.

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Marcio Vizoli

Analista de sistema

ExpediaLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alfresco ECM

7.5

Jahia

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Content capture & imaging

7.1

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File sync, storage & archiving

8.0

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Document management

8.1

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Records management

7.2

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Content search & retrieval

7.1

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Enterprise content collaboration

7.7

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Content publishing & creation

7.0

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Security, risk management & information governance

6.5

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Contract lifecycle management

7.2

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Automated workflows

7.0

—

Artificial intelligence

8.0

—

Mobile support

8.0

—

Integration

9.0

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Alfresco ECM

—

Jahia

8.5

Role-based user permissions

—

8.5

Alfresco ECM

—

Jahia

7.8

API

—

7.9

Internationalization / multi-language

—

7.7

Alfresco ECM

—

Jahia

7.1

WYSIWYG editor

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7.5

Code quality / cleanliness

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7.7

Admin section

—

8.0

Page templates

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7.8

Library of website themes

—

4.1

Mobile optimization / responsive design

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7.6

Publishing workflow

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6.6

Form generator

—

7.1

Alfresco ECM

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Jahia

6.7

Content taxonomy

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9.0

SEO support

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8.2

Bulk management

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7.3

Availability / breadth of extensions

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4.7

Community / comment management

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4.5

Pros

Basic workflows are easy enough for casual users to set up and utilize.
Cloud sync capability provides a great way to share documents with third parties and to use as a backup system for critical documents.
Alfresco mobile app makes it easy for those on the road to access, approve and share documents.
Folder rules are easy to set up and make assignment of metadata easier to automate.

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Executive in Legal

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Contextual authoring experience that allows authors to easily visualize the content changes they are making.
An extensible platform that can be customized to meet complex business problems. Creating a holistic digital experience so often involves integration with many sources of information and/or systems. Jahia's platform allows for many solutions, from customization to native platform features, for integrating with the different external systems that are required.
Jahia's pricing is competitive and Jahia provides many features found in solutions that cost much more
Jahia's support team is above average compared to other vendor support teams I have worked with.

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Travis Warholic

Senior Consultant

Avantia, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Enrichment of current content is not so easy, we have to reload the content to do so.
There is no support for XQuery.
Content transformation is absent.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Jahia documentation is lacking in some areas.
Jahia cloud offerings are not as mature as some other platforms in this space.
Jahia's native components and community provided plug-in ecosystem is limited. But thankfully, customization is easy in most cases.

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Travis Warholic

Senior Consultant

Avantia, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alfresco ECM 9.0

Based on 9 answers

The business really enjoys this product and we will continue to use it.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Jahia 1.0

Based on 1 answer

I would not use Jahia as it proved too complex for our needs and didn't help our over goal of customer satisfaction. Along with the man hours to build and execute, it wasn't worth the hassle

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Robert Evans

Interactive Design Marketing Manager

Tresna DesignsEvents Services, 51-200 employees

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Implementation

Alfresco ECM 9.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Executive in Legal

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Alfresco is cheap.
Easier to use - user-friendly.
It's robust and has the ability to integrate with other software.
It's an open source i.e. a developer or programmer can tweak to map to your company's taste.
Content sharing easier than other platforms, it'ss also a unified collaborative document management that has most of what the company needs for proper record keeping and cycle

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Oluwatoyin Adesemowo

IT Support Executive

MultiChoiceInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Jahia is flexible and customizable so it allows its users to develop different of pages. However, such work requires additional resources and expertise of third party professionals. Other products I used have been more self sufficient by providing a high range of tools, tutorials, forums and support. In Jahia it seems not to be very easy to move between this or that look or layout

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Tomek Baginski

Web Content Producer

HomeAway.comInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

At Sony Pictures, Alfresco had a direct impact on efficiency. Since the documents upload was faster and more robust, the users across the departments were able to access the documents via their software applications very quickly and they no longer had to wait.
The cost of licensing and product support for content management was reduced.
The number of support calls for IT staff got reduced by huge margin.

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Verified User

Former Employee in Information Technology

Media Production Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Jahia provides marketing and other teams the ability to focus on developing their digital experience while not being at the mercy of IT objectives.

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Travis Warholic

Senior Consultant

Avantia, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Recommend

Alfresco ECM

Jahia

Feature Rating Comparison

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

Role-based user permissions

API

Internationalization / multi-language

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Pros

Alfresco ECM

Jahia

Cons

Alfresco ECM

Jahia

Likelihood to Renew

Alfresco ECM

Jahia

Implementation

Alfresco ECM

Jahia

Alternatives Considered

Alfresco ECM

Jahia

Return on Investment

Alfresco ECM

Jahia

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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