We performed a comparison between Alfresco, Box, and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"Document repository."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"I like the ease of use."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"Governance and ease of use are why I think a lot of people like Box, including ourselves. Basically, we're concerned about what information is being sent to Box, so we use a lot of the Box governance features to make sure that what is being sent to Box is appropriate. If it is not appropriate, it is not allowed to be sent. It is also pretty easy to use. It is the easiest to use for customers and for technologists."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"The interface is very good."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"The search feature is valuable."
"The online editing capabilities, file sharing, auditing, information security, ease of solution management, and the easy user adaptation to the platform are the most valuable features."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"Data privacy, regarding where to store your data: Offering several transparent(!) options (where to store my data and whether to sync back or not and where to sync) regarding the local law situations (USA, EU, Switzerland!) would increase the credibility of a US based company (after NSA ‘snooping’)."
"I haven't really come across a case where we're not able to use it for what it is, so I don't really have anything holding us up or any customers holding us up at this point that I know of. There are always some limitations, but as a technologist, I just live with them, and there is always room for improvement, but I don't have anything quantifiable."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"It could be cheaper."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"Replication needs improvement."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
