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Alfresco vs Microsoft OneDrive for Business comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.6
Alfresco delivers significant ROI with cost savings, efficiency, reduced IT support, automation, and centralized document management benefits.
Sentiment score
2.6
Microsoft OneDrive for Business boosts efficiency, reduces costs, and streamlines document management and collaboration across the organization.
Centrally managing records has helped us automate legal retention policies and reduce physical storage costs by eighty percent, saving us in costs and protecting us from massive financial penalties associated with compliance failures.
Head Of The Operations at Flash AI
Alfresco provides a significant return on investment by efficiently managing documents.
Country Head Spain at Apiux
We have been able to save around 600 million Naira in staff costs on cloud and on-premise storage.
System Administrator at Interswitch
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.6
Alfresco customer support is generally positive but mixed, with prompt responses and some challenges due to complex workflows.
Sentiment score
3.8
Microsoft OneDrive for Business support is responsive but some users face challenges with technical knowledge and non-enterprise assistance.
I would prefer a direct relationship with them, focusing on updating their products more like in an agile practice
Head Of Information Technology at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Alfresco's technical support is very fast and professional.
Country Head Spain at Apiux
The support team was very responsive and resolved my query within forty-five minutes, which was a good experience.
Head Of The Operations at Flash AI
For Microsoft OneDrive for Business, I would rate the support a nine.
Systems services engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
They are always ready for our questions and they answer us within no time and very quickly.
Manager at TCS
Customer support for Microsoft OneDrive for Business has been 100%.
System Administrator at Interswitch
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.5
Alfresco efficiently scales with growth, excelling in clustering and customization, though complex setups are required for high document counts.
Sentiment score
5.1
Microsoft OneDrive for Business offers scalable solutions, integrating with SharePoint, supporting thousands of users, ideal for growing businesses.
Implementations needing to handle millions of documents may involve complex cluster setups requiring expert assistance.
Country Head Spain at Apiux
However, if you are looking to expand into areas with more images and videos, the scalability is somewhat limited without a developer and customization.
Agile Solutions Designer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
The solution is scalable.
Director of the IT at Jagiellonian University
Microsoft has provided the extended version of SharePoint alongside Microsoft OneDrive for Business.
Technology Analyst at Infosys
It should be increased for the free version users, making it more reachable to many people.
System administrator at BNY Mellon
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Alfresco is stable and reliable with few issues, though proper scaling and expertise are essential for optimal performance.
Sentiment score
6.4
Microsoft OneDrive for Business is stable and secure, with minor issues in file migration, shared tab, and search functionality.
Alfresco is definitely a stable and scalable solution.
Head Of The Operations at Flash AI
The stability of Alfresco is rated highly as it hardly goes down.
Head Of Information Technology at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Alfresco is generally a very stable and high-performance platform.
Country Head Spain at Apiux
As a certified Microsoft product, it maintains high security standards.
Student at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
On a scale from one to ten, it rates as a nine in stability.
Consulting Manager at Angkor Group SAC
I would rate the stability of Microsoft OneDrive for Business an eight out of ten as it has improved significantly since I started using it from the very initial days of Skydrive.
 

Room For Improvement

Alfresco requires UI refinement, enhanced security, better tools, documentation, modern database support, and smoother integration with other systems.
OneDrive for Business users seek improved file syncing, user interface, security, scalability, and integration with AI and automation.
It would be beneficial if Alfresco offers different options for document storage, such as databases or cloud solutions.
Country Head Spain at Apiux
Being able to leverage something such as MongoDB, a NoSQL database as part of the architecture would be a big improvement to enable high volume in the hundreds of millions of documents.
Manager, Major Accounts at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Governance of this system is required. If you don't have proper governance, things can go wrong.
Technical Project Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
If the asset owner can get some analytics of things, or a dashboard which is more top-level or high-level in terms of asset downloads and if there is a more collaborative platform in terms of engagement, more similar to Notion, would be nice for Microsoft OneDrive for Business suite of products.
Product Manager For Marketing And Strategy at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I have experience with multiple version controls, including Git, TFS (Team Foundation Server), and GitHub.
Student at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Microsoft OneDrive for Business currently lacks AI integration for management and collaboration, which is an area of interest for me.
 

Setup Cost

Alfresco has competitive pricing for large enterprises, focusing on pay-per-use with potential costs for upgrades and integrations.
Microsoft OneDrive for Business pricing is divisive; some find value in bundled plans, while others seek greater transparency.
Since we obtained Alfresco through AWS Marketplace, we are billed for what we use.
Head Of The Operations at Flash AI
The pricing of Alfresco starts at $100,000, which can be expensive for small projects.
Country Head Spain at Apiux
Pricing is considered mid-range.
Head Of Information Technology at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Sometimes without the offers, the pricing of Microsoft OneDrive for Business is a little high.
Manager at TCS
 

Valuable Features

Alfresco offers robust document management, integration, customization, collaboration, and user-friendly features, meeting diverse organizational needs efficiently.
Microsoft OneDrive for Business boosts productivity with secure cloud storage, seamless integration, real-time collaboration, and AI-enhanced tools.
This makes the record independent of the document, which is beneficial as documents often change, and it helps avoid continual updates to the registry.
Country Head Spain at Apiux
Alfresco also provides automated lifecycle management that helps us enforce legal holds, retention schedules, and secure disposition of records, keeping the files secure and ensuring that our organization remains compliant with legal requirements.
Head Of The Operations at Flash AI
It enabled users to find exactly what documents they were looking for in a timely fashion, as well as to export to patients and healthcare members what they needed to do for Medicaid, Medicare, or any other secondary insurance, including the documents they needed to fill out as well as prescriptions.
Agile Solutions Designer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Microsoft OneDrive for Business has positively impacted my organization because it helps users ensure that their files are not lost, especially since we have many users either with laptop issues or unable to locate a particular file.
System Administrator at Interswitch
I appreciate the feature in SharePoint where it's difficult to permanently delete a file, as you can always recover files very easily.
Executive Director at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Another benefit is that you can share information across multiple devices, not just on one device.
Consulting Manager at Angkor Group SAC
 

Categories and Ranking

Alfresco
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (4th), Document Management Software (1st)
Microsoft OneDrive for Busi...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
4.9
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Alfresco and Microsoft OneDrive for Business aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Alfresco is designed for Enterprise Content Management and holds a mindshare of 5.8%, down 9.0% compared to last year.
Microsoft OneDrive for Business, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 5.8% mindshare, down 9.1% since last year.
Enterprise Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Alfresco5.8%
SharePoint12.1%
OpenText Documentum Content Management7.0%
Other75.1%
Enterprise Content Management
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft OneDrive for Business5.8%
Box - Intelligent Content Management8.1%
Office 3657.2%
Other78.9%
Content Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Jaspreet k - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of The Operations at Flash AI
Streamlined compliance workflows have reduced manual document handling and improved governance
Alfresco offers many features that I value highly. The first is the open architecture that provides extensive REST API and support of open standards such as CMIS, allowing our development team to easily extend their capabilities. The second valuable feature is the activity workflow engine, a powerful BPMN compliant workflow engine that automates complex and multi-step processes natively alongside the content. Another favorite feature is smart document processing. Due to its built-in AI capabilities, Alfresco can automatically classify documents based on our business requirements and tagging. This directly helps us find those documents by tagging them and locating them more easily. The smart document processing in Alfresco has helped us extract information via OCR and identify entities without requiring manual data entry, as it works on a metadata approach that is directly searched via OCR. The text is assigned as a token in the backend, and using the AI capabilities, Alfresco can automatically classify and read via OCR. Alfresco also provides automated lifecycle management that helps us enforce legal holds, retention schedules, and secure disposition of records, keeping the files secure and ensuring that our organization remains compliant with legal requirements.
PramodChaudharyDarwha - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at TCS
Collaborative work has transformed team retrospectives and now saves us major planning time
I do not think that there is any improvement needed in Microsoft OneDrive for Business because a lot of features are already provided in the package that we have purchased, and we do not have anything that would be improved as of now. Speed-wise, Microsoft OneDrive for Business is very fast. Sometimes I think the auto-save feature of the things that we edit should also work in offline mode for some time, because once we get disconnected, I sometimes feel that the Excel or the Word document is trying to connect to Microsoft OneDrive for Business and trying to save it, but somehow the sessions expire. I sometimes want this to not happen. It can reconnect to the server when connection is up, but I can still work on the document.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Government
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alfresco?
Pricing, setup costs, and licensing are interesting aspects of Alfresco for our organization. We do not rely solely on licensing as it is based on a billing model rather than just licensing. Since ...
What needs improvement with Alfresco?
Alfresco could be improved in terms of maintenance and could have a simpler architecture regarding search functionality. If I change the metadata, I have to perform re-indexing of all the content f...
What is your primary use case for Alfresco?
My main use case for Alfresco is as a content management system at an enterprise level. A specific example of how I use Alfresco as an enterprise level content management system is for sharing docu...
What needs improvement with Microsoft OneDrive?
Microsoft OneDrive for Business is very good and I do not think it needs to improve on anything. I believe this is a very good product.
What is your primary use case for Microsoft OneDrive?
My main use case for Microsoft OneDrive for Business is to save files to my PC and to sync files so I can access them from different laptops. I experienced a scenario where I had issues with my cur...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft OneDrive?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been very great for the past seven years.
 

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