We performed a comparison between Alfresco and IBM FileNet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."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."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The most valuable feature is access control."
"It puts governance in place around the content and processes. Access levels can be set to certain parts of the document based on role level."
"It is a user-friendly system and easy to manage for anyone with basic knowledge."
"I have found that it scales well."
"The usability is very good. We like the Content Navigator. It's very easy to use the search and retrieve for documents and has a lot of options for the user to download documents or send an email."
"Gves us the ability to create an end-to-end [document] transaction."
"The features that I have found most valuable include the Data Capture and Case Manager features."
"The most useful feature is its persistent storage. Also, the full-text search and attribute searching are valuable."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"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 think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"It may be a little complex to implement and take some effort."
"IBM doesn't offer new technologies every year, they offer new technologies after five years, for each release of the product."
"I would like IBM to improve with each release, continue moving towards a continual, tighter integration, and build solutions that take advantage of all the different modules the platform has from one place."
"There is room for improvement in the scanning solution, Datacap. It's improving all the time. But since it's more an end-user software, the end-users are constantly improving their processes, and I believe that sometimes we're not catching up with their requirements."
"I would like to see expanded search features, like content search."
"It needs better collaboration between the IBM teams on the FileNet and CCM sides."
"It is ability to display legacy content needs improvement."
"The basic and fundamental point about FileNet is that the interface is very bad. It's just not appealing so people are reluctant to use it."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while IBM FileNet is ranked 6th in Enterprise Content Management with 94 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while IBM FileNet is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FileNet writes "A document management system that helps in document digitalization and workflow management". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Extended ECM, OpenText Documentum and Nuxeo, whereas IBM FileNet is most compared with SharePoint, OpenText Documentum, OpenText Extended ECM, IBM ECM and Hyland OnBase.
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