Alfresco ECM vs Xerox DocuShare

Likelihood to Recommend

Alfresco Enterprise Content Management is well suited for any sized organization with content management needs.

Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer

Quality Matters ProgramE-Learning, 11-50 employees

Great for SMB companies. Though we have many sites in international locales the distances involved make it unsuited for export outside the contiguous US

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Mark Pettigrew

Business Simplification Project Manager

HuhtamakiPackaging and Containers, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alfresco ECM

7.5

Collaboration - it is an excellent tool for collaboration and makes it very easy for several people to work on projects together.
Scripting - If there is something that Alfresco does not do natively, you can use their custom API to do almost anything that you want.
Interface - The interface of the application is nice and neat, and is very easy to use and understand.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Search and retrieval are excellent.
The web interface is easy and intuitive.
There is a client interface for selected users who require one.

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Mark Pettigrew

Business Simplification Project Manager

HuhtamakiPackaging and Containers, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Alfresco is a bundle of technology packaged together, so this solution requires a lot of expertise if you want to customize a lot your solution.

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Ben Chevallereau

Software Architect

ArmediaInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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The client could use improvement. It is characterized as a secondary interface by Xerox but for the users who prefer it is their primary entry point.

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Mark Pettigrew

Business Simplification Project Manager

HuhtamakiPackaging and Containers, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alfresco ECM 9.0

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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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Implementation

Alfresco ECM 9.0

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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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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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