Alfresco Content Services

Benefits:

The customization you can give to all your file management structure, the user different levels of security access you can define, and the stability of its platform

Drawbacks:

Performance is affected when managing large size files, you may want to make periodical back ups to prevent this problem

Benefits:

It is a great tool for content management, you have metadata approval flows and anything related to this subject

Drawbacks:

The integration with other platforms is not that easy and could definitely be improved, other than that is fine

Benefits:

It can make your life easier as it does not demand special software to be installed on your terminal, just a web browser is enough.

Drawbacks:

Depending on your permissions the software won't let you do simple things, like delete or move or copy files you uploaded by mistake in an incorrect folder. It won't let you know of the progress of your uploads or let you know when they are done, a really big problem for big files.

In sum:

I am a user logged into another business with the goal of delivering files to them and I've found it to be really not end user friendly.

Benefits:

Easy to install and configure by just following the documentation Good search support for full text. Architecture supports cloud for deployment.

Drawbacks:

Plugin development is easy as it is explained in the document. Resource availability for developing plugins not available in the market

In sum:

Best ECM for SMB enterprises with very less investment

Benefits:

We can add our own work flows. It support good search on the documents. Good versioning capabilities. Support many document types

Drawbacks:

It is browser compatibility issues There are some problem when uploading large files. It would be good if they add more APIs to integrate

In sum:

Good Content and document management.

Benefits:

I like the customization features, the work flow options, and it's compatibility with many file types. It makes searching for documents a breeze and keeping your content well organised in varying Projects/Sites. I particularly like the Dashboard setting on each site, that allows you to customize your overview of that project, giving visual to members, who is working on what files, and a live browser frame to keep you in the loop if your project is website based.

Drawbacks:

The interface could use some work, I find the usability takes some time to get into in order to unlock all the features and functionality available to you. The documentation is a useful assistant in getting around the software.

Benefits:

Have free version, work fine for large number of users. Is a good way for centralize documents manage (for exemple, quality system)

Drawbacks:

Free version only permit associate an user for administrator, if this person abandon your user, you lost yours documents. will present compatibility problems on depend of Java version an browsers.

Benefits:

In the first place for being Open Source, The information security and integrity, the access control to access each document and the way it keeps track of every changes.

Drawbacks:

Still requires programming to implement specific functions and the learning curve that is not as short as one could desire.

In sum:

Great option for document management, all web based and with the confidence of have your info safe.

In sum:

We use previous version of alfresco and we have a good performance iin our product, now i am reviewing Alfresco One and there are many good features that can be used in new projects.

Benefits:

It's a great system for organizing files in a secure way - access control is excellent. It's easy for version control too.

Drawbacks:

What I don't like is that you can't have two people editing a document at the same time. We have some sensitive reporting stored there, but it makes it hard if two of us want to work in it at the same time.

In sum:

Generally good for storing, organizing and securing files. It's just a little tricky when you want to actually work in files.