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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Alfresco

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Alfresco platform, from Hyland, delivers comprehensive cloud-native content services. It is used to intelligently activate processes and content to accelerate the flow of business.N/A

    Nintex

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ANintex offers a platform that helps companies discover, automate, and optimize business processes.

    $480

    Minimum 1,000 users per user

    Pricing
    AlfrescoNintex
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprise - Process Platform
    $480
    Minimum 1,000 users per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AlfrescoNintex
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    AlfrescoNintex
    Considered Both Products
    Hyland
    No answer on this topic
    Nintex
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Would buy again
    94 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    85 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    107 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    78 Answers
    Features
    AlfrescoNintex
    Enterprise Content Management
    Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Alfresco and Nintex
    Feature
    Alfresco
    8.2
    7 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Content capture & imaging9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    File sync, storage & archiving9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document management9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Records management8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content search & retrieval10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise content collaboration7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content publishing & creation7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, risk management & information governance9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract lifecycle management8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated workflows8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Artificial intelligence6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile support7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Alfresco and Nintex
    Feature
    Alfresco
    -
    Ratings
    Nintex
    6.6
    190 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.6176 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.8179 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.4143 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Alfresco and Nintex
    Feature
    Alfresco
    -
    Ratings
    Nintex
    7.0
    258 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings7.6230 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings5.021 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings7.7198 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.0174 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings7.357 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings6.014 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings8.0228 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings7.7181 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Alfresco and Nintex
    Feature
    Alfresco
    -
    Ratings
    Nintex
    9.0
    18 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Alfresco and Nintex
    Feature
    Alfresco
    -
    Ratings
    Nintex
    10.0
    23 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Content management00 Ratings10.023 Ratings
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    Egnyte
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Epicor ECM
    Score7.7 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Dashpivot - By Sitemate
    Score10 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AlfrescoNintex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    7.4
    (302 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    2.7
    (34 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (24 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AlfrescoNintex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hyland
    Easy integration with the external APIs Workflows can be invoked via REST call Wonderful swagger documentation for process REST APIs REST, MULE, CAMEL, Google Drive, and Box features are available with Alfresco Process Services The micro-service version deployment should be well documented and needs improvement
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    Nintex
    We use Nintex to automate fundraising outreach at scale. It helps us send personalized emails to a large contact list, and we’d also like to automate follow-ups when there’s no reply.
    If you need highly customized solutions or clean, fully controllable code, I wouldn’t recommend Nintex. It has many features, but it’s not the same as building your own system from scratch. That said, it can save a lot of time for standard automation workflows.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Hyland
    • 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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    Nintex
    • Integrations with other services using various secure authentication methods, along with the seamless integration with SharePoint, are the icing on the cake. This makes it superior to other BPM tools available in the market.
    • Flexibility in application development - The diverse configurable properties offer multiple ways to utilise the controls and events, affording the flexibility to expand your scope and enabling the creation and use of processes in a myriad of ways.
    • The streamlined and efficient deployment process significantly accelerates release management, allowing for faster and smoother implementation of updates and new features.
    • The user interface of the pages offers a more refined and appealing look and feel compared to most other BPM tools.
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    Cons
    Hyland
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Nintex
    • If you are creating a process with parallel subprocesses, there's no way to see, in a single view in Nintex, all the steps for the subprocesses. You have to view each sub-process in its own view, so it's hard to see what's going on at a high level.
    • There isn't an easy way to filter the processes by another user (not yourself) in Nintex. There is a report that shows processes and objects by user, but that's not as convenient. This is something that I've seen in other tools (OpenPages by IBM) so I am surprised that it is missing.
    • Nintex doesn't really have a way to capture iterative processes (which we have a lot of). It's designed for linear processes.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Hyland
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Nintex
    We are currently investigating which collaboration platform best suits our needs. Chances are that we move to SharePoint Online and then we're going to also consider the microsoft power platform (power automate and power apps) to develop forms and workflows. Aspecially the pricing model for the cloud is currently a blocking factor to go for the Nintex solution in the Cloud.
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    Usability
    Hyland
    The UI is very intuitive, most of our users figure out how to use the platform by themselves, so there's not much training needed.
    You can upload files by using the web drag and drop, WebDAV, FTP, and more.
    Most of the platform already works as-is so you can just deploy it using Docker and it's mostly ready to go.
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    Nintex
    Based on the on-prem experience with this tool, I believe that they have a lot of potential to help the online version catch up to where the on-prem left off. Nintex developed their online version and it is not as fully formed or capable compared to the on-prem version, and the licensing model scales back what we would have liked to be an expansion or at least continuous improvement of existing flows. It is also not near as user friendly specifically to non-developers and has an uncanny similarity to Microsoft Flow in the online instance. Consistent with my reviews of the tool - I believe they have some good approaches to design thinking that, if translated well from on-prem to online, could make this a clear winner again.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Hyland
    No answers on this topic
    Nintex
    The Nintex Process Platform has never crashed or had any availability issues during my usage. However there was an issue that was of my own making that caused a slowdown of the system. I had set up a process to run once a day and check for employees on a list that had certain parameters selected, and for some reason that I had to troubleshoot, the process instead ran constantly, which filled the cache quickly. I ended up having to dismantle that process so the system didn't crash.
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    Performance
    Hyland
    No answers on this topic
    Nintex
    Unlike any other process automation product out there. Not only is it a low-code, easy to use tool for building processes in environments like SharePoint or Salesforce, they have really started to expand their tool-set by offering tools to manage other things like process mapping, RPA, mobile,etc.
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    Support Rating
    Hyland
    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
    Incentivized
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    Nintex
    The support team works as fast as they can and they are usually fast to solver the issues. Sometimes they need more time to solve one of them because our workflows and so on are more complex than usual clients.
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    In-Person Training
    Hyland
    No answers on this topic
    Nintex
    The trainer addressed the smallest queries in a friendly and timely manner; He walked us through all the necessary products we were using
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    Online Training
    Hyland
    No answers on this topic
    Nintex
    I used the Nintex training software, it was easy to watch and follow along. It didn't go too fast and was descriptive enough to understand what the steps needed were in order to produce efficient workflows and user friendly forms.
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    Implementation Rating
    Hyland
    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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    Nintex
    1.Start with Simple Workflows: Begin with basic workflows to gain user confidence before tackling complex processes.
    2.Involve Stakeholders Early: Engage business users and IT early to align workflows with real business needs.
    3.Comprehensive Training: Invest in user training to ensure smooth adoption and reduce resistance.
    4.Leverage Prebuilt Templates: Use Nintex’s templates to speed up implementation and maintain consistency.
    5.Iterate and Optimize: Continuously improve workflows based on user feedback and performance metrics.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hyland
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Nintex
    Microsoft environment does not have the scalability of Nintex; it is perfect for small and medium-sized companies, especially in environments where Microsoft environment is almost entirely used. Although Microsoft offers options to connect to other applications, its platform lacks the development and robustness that Nintex provides. Nintex not only covers Microsoft environments but also Google and other important platforms.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Hyland
    No answers on this topic
    Nintex
    The scalability is really bottlenecked by the imagination of the user. I was able to make processes for my own personal usage, making my daily tasks easier. I was also able to make processes that affected hundreds of employees, making large standardization and efficiency gains. So either way, the system is used the same way, and I was the limiting factor.
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    Return on Investment
    Hyland
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    Nintex
    • People have woken up to the amount of overlap after mapping their processes.
    • People can be resistant to process changes. You need to have the support from above or support from the 'business' that you are process changing to be able to see the positive impacts.
    • Numbers talk. if you can get a general salary figure from your HR dept to show savings for 'employee bands', then when you present reports, they will be all the richer in data.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Alfresco Screenshots

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    Nintex Screenshots

    Screenshot of Nintex Automation CE, a complete agentic business orchestration platform — unifying process intelligence, agentic workflow orchestration, and AI-driven solution building in one governed platform.Screenshot of the Nintex K2 dashboard. The application offers on-premises and hosted solutions that brings together advanced orchestration, control, and scalability, and security into a single platform.