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Alfresco vs Open Bee comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Alfresco
Ranking in Document Management Software
1st
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (4th)
Open Bee
Ranking in Document Management Software
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Document Management Software category, the mindshare of Alfresco is 8.1%, down from 14.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Open Bee is 1.7%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Document Management Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Alfresco8.1%
Open Bee1.7%
Other90.2%
Document Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

Albano Garcia - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Centralized document management has boosted search efficiency and supports secure collaboration
The best features Alfresco offers in my experience include the intelligent search, because sometimes you need to find a document, and this solution provides a full-text search across different document types and formats, which is perhaps the most remarkable feature, along with version control. The solution tracks all the changes of the documents and prevents accidental overrides or other issues. The intelligent search has made my work easier because you can just put a word. Perhaps you are thinking of finding something related to a client or a specific MSA agreement, and with one or two words, the intelligent search proposes all the documents that include this word, facilitating finding the information very easily and very quickly. This is the most important feature for us.
reviewer2266047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Administrateur système d'informations at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
An easy to setup tool for archiving, managing, and sharing documents
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it allows one to share some knowledge or information through documents. The solution also helps to conduct searches in a document. Suppose you want to search for an exact invoice, and you may not find it, but with Open Bee, you can find it in two to five minutes.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Alfresco positively impacted my organization by enabling the ability to store hundreds of thousands of documents, helping my team save time and reduce errors, enabling 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."
"The digitalization of workflow, forms, operations, and business processes is also significant."
"We are happy with Alfresco, believing it to be a very good and competitive solution in price as a great content management solution."
"Alfresco has impacted my organization and my customers' organizations positively by enabling them to have a very flexible solution that could meet their requirements."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"You can meet your users' expected features without having Alfresco's involvement."
"Alfresco allows broad searches with many index fields that you can search on, although the created fields and their values may not be intuitive."
"Document repository."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it allows one to share some knowledge or information through documents."
 

Cons

"I have not seen a return on investment, as at the time it was not saving them money at Evernorth and Cigna, which is why they moved out of it."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"There is need to improve features such as the record management and case management in the product."
"I choose eight out of ten because I have dealt with the system being down at times and not having access, which keeps it from being a perfect score."
"Alfresco could be improved in terms of maintenance and could have a simpler architecture regarding search functionality."
"The configuration of Alfresco is a big challenge."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Technical Support: Average, this might be because I am quite experienced and the questions I have might be difficult to find an answer to quickly as I have probably already exhausted most solution possibilities before I contact support."
"Open Bee should update its documentation with more direct examples."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for Alfresco is expensive - not the maximum, but close. There are also extra costs once you start building integrations, as implementation seems to be very costly."
"If you buy Alfresco through a partner, there is usually a OEM licensing option."
"There are costs for any upgrade or additional functions."
"It is cheaper compared to head-to-head competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
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Company Size

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Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise13
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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...
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