Alfresco ECM vs Jahia

Alfresco ECM

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Executive in Legal

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

View all 13 answers on this topic

Jahia

Well suited for enterprise digital experience solutions.

Read full review

Travis Warholic

Senior Consultant

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

View all 6 answers on this topic

Feature Rating Comparison

Alfresco ECM

7.6

Jahia

—

Content capture & imaging

8.0

—

File sync, storage & archiving

8.0

—

Document management

8.4

—

Records management

7.8

—

Content search & retrieval

7.2

—

Enterprise content collaboration

7.3

—

Content publishing & creation

7.0

—

Security, risk management & information governance

7.6

—

Contract lifecycle management

7.6

—

Alfresco ECM

—

Jahia

7.7

Role-based user permissions

—

7.7

Alfresco ECM

—

Jahia

7.4

API

—

7.9

Internationalization / multi-language

—

6.8

Alfresco ECM

—

Jahia

6.4

WYSIWYG editor

—

6.8

Code quality / cleanliness

—

7.7

Admin section

—

6.4

Page templates

—

7.3

Library of website themes

—

4.1

Mobile optimization / responsive design

—

7.7

Publishing workflow

—

5.0

Form generator

—

5.9

Alfresco ECM

—

Jahia

6.5

Content taxonomy

—

9.0

SEO support

—

7.7

Bulk management

—

6.4

Availability / breadth of extensions

—

4.7

Community / comment management

—

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Executive in Legal

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

View all 13 answers on this topic

It's flexible and accommodating from a page layout perspective
It works with other content production platforms like Bootstrap
It simultaneously supports multiple users

Read full review

Tomek Baginski

Web Content Producer

HomeAway.comInternet, 1001-5000 employees

View all 6 answers on this topic

Cons

Ability to scan directly using Alfresco scan features
Ability to integrate with social network platform.. i.e. upload and share to Facebook or Instagram
Interface should be much more user-friendly and light

Read full review

Oluwatoyin Adesemowo

IT Support Executive

MultiChoiceInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

View all 13 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Travis Warholic

Senior Consultant

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

View all 6 answers on this topic

Likelihood to Renew

Alfresco ECM9.0

Based on 9 answers

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

Read full review

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

View all 9 answers on this topic

Jahia1.0

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

Read full review

Robert Evans

Interactive Design Marketing Manager

Tresna DesignsEvents Services, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

Implementation

Alfresco ECM9.0

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Executive in Legal

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Ask the community to sound off

Alternatives Considered

Alfresco provides by default a very user-friendly user interface, And it's highly configurable. Moreover, the license model is really interesting compared to both solutions

Read full review

Ben Chevallereau

Software Architect

ArmediaInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

View all 13 answers on this topic

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

Read full review

Tomek Baginski

Web Content Producer

HomeAway.comInternet, 1001-5000 employees

View all 6 answers on this topic

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

Read full review