We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Citrix ShareFile 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 product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"Document repository."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"This provides us with a secure way of sending tax returns without having to use passwords."
"ShareFile gives you all of the features of cloud providers, but in an on-premises solution."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"Easy to manage and fully secure."
"The solution is scalable."
"The Enterprise Dropbox solution is highly integrated with Microsoft's Office 365 and Azure products."
"It's user-friendly for end users."
"The solution would query the Active Directory, and if new accounts were identified, Citrix ShareFile would add them automatically."
"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."
"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 would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"DLP features are lacking and required because, especially with everyone working from home, security is now paramount when the data is on BYOD devices."
"There are sometimes scalability issues after updates."
"The user interface is not very intuitive."
"They should integrate the solution with more email services."
"My only issue with this solution is the cost, which should be improved."
"Some of our customers are facing issues if they've deployed in hybrid mode."
"The configuration on the mobile devices is a little clunky, in terms of setting up the application."
"Everything they have should be integrated into one item."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while Citrix ShareFile is ranked 9th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 11 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while Citrix ShareFile is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix ShareFile writes "Flexible plans, stable, and scalable". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Documentum, IBM FileNet and OpenText Extended ECM, whereas Citrix ShareFile is most compared with SharePoint, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box and Office 365.
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