We performed a comparison between Alfresco, IBM ECM, and Microsoft OneDrive based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Document repository."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The scalability is a valuable feature, that we're able to display our documents to so many people."
"The vertical scalability, as we can use it across some of our applications."
"The content management is all about you as you can make the same content for minimal purpose solutions applications."
"The tool is a very stable solution with high availability and no information leakage. It has built-in API integration on-site. You can integrate with other components and applications like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, etc."
"It is good as a central hub for the storage of documents and sharing among team members."
"It's pretty easy to learn. Once someone taught me, I was able to navigate it quite easily."
"Scalability is good just because it is a cloud-based product."
"One of the good features is that the users are not even aware that they're using it."
"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."
"Image management is great since the search is simple, and accessing images with labels is easy."
"It is simple to use and it allows me to give me the opportunity to access anything I want from any device."
"Ability to share documents."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"I think it's already getting away from Java applets. A lot of our users struggle with keeping up to date with Java versioning, so a lot of the functions they're doing, like printing, emailing, and even some of the viewing, they're struggling with."
"I would like to see seamless application integration."
"I would recommend not going with ECM 8 and going with FileNet instead. It seems like that is the future of the lower-volume repository. It seems like they are moving away from ECM 8.5 so I think we're going to have some challenges coming up, getting off of that technology."
"The development platform is not local. For example, you need 100 days in IBM, whereas other platforms, like ServiceNow, need only 20 days."
"An increase in the capacity of storage in the free version would be nice."
"Recent functionality changes have actually made the product more confusing to use."
"The website could be improved. Sometimes I try to login and the website has issues, I can't retrieve my documents."
"The security is not as flexible as it is with Dropbox, which means that we can't share our OneDrive files."
"No one gets an alert when files are deleted."
"The user interface could be a little more intuitive."
"Technical support is not very impressive and is typical of large company software support."
"The area that can be improved is to be able to share easily with folks outside the organization and with folks who don't have an office account. Sometimes, when you send a link, you might have some form of repetition. If you don't know how to share it properly, whoever you are sharing it with will have issues using it. Also, the link that you use to share a document can be made a bit shorter. It doesn't have to be long. Typically, when you want to share a document, it has everything, such as the name of the organization, SharePoint, etc. A short URL will be easier to use, and it will just make life easier, especially because a lot of people are now going mobile. I'm not sure if there's a mobile version of Microsoft OneDrive, similar to Google Drive. If they don't have a mobile app, it would also be nice to have a mobile app because that would help in checking out your documents. It would be easy to check your documents on the go on your phone."