Alfresco ECM vs Plone

Alfresco ECM

Alfresco is more suited for almost all working environment that deals with paper, companies which are trendy, vibrant media, techie, courier logistics companies and insurance companies as well. Irrespective of the environment, it less appropriate to introduce the usage to people above 40 who are less interested in any form of new technology development.

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Oluwatoyin Adesemowo

IT Support Executive

MultiChoiceInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Plone

Is there an experienced sysadmin to install and maintain the stack? If not, Plone is not a good choice. However, hosted solutions are available. It's important to have qualified and knowledgeable personnel available who are able to address development concerns. For end-users, and content managers, it's a great system overall. Publishing workflow, multi-level undo and rollback, etc make Plone very attractive in active publishing environments.

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Peter Fraterdeus

Director of Design

SlowPrint.comPrinting, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alfresco ECM

7.7

Plone

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Content capture & imaging

8.0

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File sync, storage & archiving

8.0

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Document management

8.5

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Records management

7.9

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Content search & retrieval

7.1

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Enterprise content collaboration

7.4

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Content publishing & creation

7.0

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Security, risk management & information governance

7.5

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Contract lifecycle management

7.5

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Alfresco ECM

—

Plone

10.0

Role-based user permissions

—

10.0

Alfresco ECM

—

Plone

9.7

API

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9.7

Internationalization / multi-language

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9.7

Alfresco ECM

—

Plone

7.7

WYSIWYG editor

—

7.8

Code quality / cleanliness

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9.0

Admin section

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8.0

Page templates

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7.6

Library of website themes

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3.8

Mobile optimization / responsive design

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7.4

Publishing workflow

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10.0

Form generator

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8.0

Alfresco ECM

—

Plone

7.9

Content taxonomy

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9.4

SEO support

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9.0

Bulk management

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6.3

Availability / breadth of extensions

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7.4

Community / comment management

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7.7

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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Julie Henn

Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer

Quality Matters ProgramE-Learning, 11-50 employees

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Rock-solid technology stack. The python/Zope/Plone stack is as solid as anything else out there.
Highly customizable TTW, if needed, via the Zope Management Interface, or Diazo XSL-transform theme design.
Good support from core developers, lots of solid add-ons which address just about any needs.
Amazingly customizable workflow, permissions and security management.

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Peter Fraterdeus

Director of Design

SlowPrint.comPrinting, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Our greatest need for Alfresco ECM is the functionality to generate public URLS for content. We've accomplished this through our Drupal integration, but at times, it would be very useful to be able to make Alfresco content publicly available without this added layer.
Many of our other concerns have been addressed in the latest version and we look forward to that implementation.

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Julie Henn

Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer

Quality Matters ProgramE-Learning, 11-50 employees

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Error messages are often cryptic, rising up with a traceback from deep in the system.
It's perhaps hard to control this, since add-ons will always bring uncontrolled elements to bear.
Perhaps some way to better visualize the source of the problem? End users should never see a traceback.
TTW design options. In fact, Diazo based theming is remarkably powerful, and there are many tools for TTW design, but to better integrate this essential part of web development would make for a more useful end product.

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Peter Fraterdeus

Director of Design

SlowPrint.comPrinting, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alfresco ECM9.0

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Demanded by Client/Customer

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Varun Shah

Software Engineer

MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Plone8.3

Based on 10 answers

I no longer use Plone because I got an internship in the web development field and my current place of employment uses their own content management system that they created. After getting to know other CMS's and similar software and comparing them to Plone, I would enjoy using Plone again in the future, but there are more complicated software that I'd like to learn as I progress in my field of study.

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Gracie Wardin

Social Media Intern

BrownBoots Interactive, Inc.Higher Education, 11-50 employees

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Performance

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Plone9.0

Based on 1 answer

Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.

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Tom Cameron

Technical Manager

KitovuInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Implementation

Alfresco ECM9.0

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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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Alternatives Considered

As already explained earlier, the cost of licensing and support comes down very much by using Alfresco compared to Stellent and Sharepoint. Plus the overall performance and feature set is much broader for Alfresco. Since it is a newly developed content management system, it combines the features and best practices from already existing systems.

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Verified User

Former Employee in Information Technology

Media Production Company, 1001-5000 employees

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We selected Plone for the ease of use.

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Gilmer Govaert

SAP business analyst

KULeuvenInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

It increases employee efficiency

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Qing Gou

Sr. Consultant

ArmediaInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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For out business Plone allows us to deliver enterprise level solutions at very reasonable budgets. We tender and compete against some of the much larger commercial CMS solutions and regularly win comfortably on price and deliver on functionality.
Plone also allows us to provide much more functionality than many clients expect. We are often able to over deliver on small budget projects because Plone comes with so much built in.

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Tom Cameron

Technical Manager

KitovuInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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