Sre Engineering And Architecture at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Jun 25, 2026
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 documents across business units, maintaining versions, audits, and access controls across various groups.
I use Alfresco as a centralized repository of documents, managing all the proposals, materials, and all the information that we have about our solution software. An example of how we use Alfresco as a centralized repository is that we have a repository where we include all the information about a customer, such as all the contract proposals, materials, drafts, and preparations. It is the place where we centralize all documents and all the team can work individually while centralizing everything in one place. We use Alfresco from our laptops and mobile devices, which gives us so much flexibility to work with the solution.
Manager, Major Accounts at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Jun 23, 2026
My main use case for Alfresco was that I was a sales rep for Alfresco. A specific example of how Alfresco was used by my customers is loan automation to take an onboarding for a bank loan and automate that process for the consumers. In addition to that, I was involved with insurance claims processing as another typical use case I saw with Alfresco.
Agile Product Owner - CMS at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Jun 23, 2026
My main use case for Alfresco was working for a healthcare company in 2023 that was using Alfresco, where I helped them migrate all their documentation out of it into Contentful. The documentation I was migrating included Word documents and PDF documents, all healthcare-related. I was in charge of the team that was to extract them and ensure that they did not get corrupted, while ensuring that everything naming-wise was detailed correctly for the metadata to be transferred into Contentful.
My main use case for Alfresco is to centralize client records, loan documentation, digital contracts, onboarding processes, internal approval workflows, and evidence for audits.Alfresco works excellently for audits since all documentation of the processes is stored there, and when auditors request access or a document, we find everything directly.
My main use case for Alfresco is that I implemented Alfresco Content Services to solve complex enterprise problems for content service, record management, and process management. Using this tool, I implemented a central repository for document management and document approval processes between different departments. I have also integrated Alfresco Content Services with different applications including Portal, SAP, DocuSign, LDAP, SSO, and many more. One specific example of how I use Alfresco is that it can be leveraged for document storage, metadata management of documents, and document searches based on content or metadata. It provides a lot of customization options, making it suitable for different scenarios. Overall, the main intent of my use of Alfresco is to implement a unified ECM system and promote the idea of a paperless office.
My main use case for Alfresco is to manage all the documentation we digitized from our customers. With Alfresco, it is easy to store, sort, and search for documents. Being open source makes it very customizable, so we can adapt to our customers' demands that are very unique, and we are not able to do with other ECM solutions other than Alfresco. A quick specific example of how I have customized Alfresco to meet a unique customer demand is that Alfresco works great for storing and managing a high volume of documents of any kind of file format. You can even preview commonly used file formats such as PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and many more, and develop custom content transformers to auto convert files that are uploaded into the ECM easily. I love the easy integrations with external APIs that are part of my main use case for how I use Alfresco day-to-day. Workflows can be invoked via REST. Alfresco offers wonderful Swagger documentation for process REST APIs, REST, Mule, Camel, Google Drive, and Box features.
Mostly, the primary use case is to store documents related to transactions in our company. These documents could be signed documents, invoices, purchase orders, etc. While transaction records are stored in our ERP ( /categories/erp ) system, it is crucial to have the document as proof of the transaction. We implement a content manager to link documents in Alfresco ( /products/alfresco-reviews ) with the registry in the ERP ( /categories/erp ) system. This is the most important use case for us.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 5
Oct 1, 2024
I use Alfresco primarily to look up documents. However, it is not as user-friendly as the previous solution, Nautilus, which I was more familiar with due to my involvement in its configuration and setup.
Alfresco offers integration with both cloud and on-premises systems, emphasizing document management, collaboration, and high customization potential. Key attributes include its open-source nature and strong API support, driving efficient content sharing and workflow management.Alfresco stands out as a robust platform for managing content services, records, and business processes. It enables organizations to implement central repositories for document approval, integrating effectively with...
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 documents across business units, maintaining versions, audits, and access controls across various groups.
I use Alfresco as a centralized repository of documents, managing all the proposals, materials, and all the information that we have about our solution software. An example of how we use Alfresco as a centralized repository is that we have a repository where we include all the information about a customer, such as all the contract proposals, materials, drafts, and preparations. It is the place where we centralize all documents and all the team can work individually while centralizing everything in one place. We use Alfresco from our laptops and mobile devices, which gives us so much flexibility to work with the solution.
My main use case for Alfresco was that I was a sales rep for Alfresco. A specific example of how Alfresco was used by my customers is loan automation to take an onboarding for a bank loan and automate that process for the consumers. In addition to that, I was involved with insurance claims processing as another typical use case I saw with Alfresco.
My main use case for Alfresco was working for a healthcare company in 2023 that was using Alfresco, where I helped them migrate all their documentation out of it into Contentful. The documentation I was migrating included Word documents and PDF documents, all healthcare-related. I was in charge of the team that was to extract them and ensure that they did not get corrupted, while ensuring that everything naming-wise was detailed correctly for the metadata to be transferred into Contentful.
My main use case for Alfresco is to centralize client records, loan documentation, digital contracts, onboarding processes, internal approval workflows, and evidence for audits.Alfresco works excellently for audits since all documentation of the processes is stored there, and when auditors request access or a document, we find everything directly.
My main use case for Alfresco is that I implemented Alfresco Content Services to solve complex enterprise problems for content service, record management, and process management. Using this tool, I implemented a central repository for document management and document approval processes between different departments. I have also integrated Alfresco Content Services with different applications including Portal, SAP, DocuSign, LDAP, SSO, and many more. One specific example of how I use Alfresco is that it can be leveraged for document storage, metadata management of documents, and document searches based on content or metadata. It provides a lot of customization options, making it suitable for different scenarios. Overall, the main intent of my use of Alfresco is to implement a unified ECM system and promote the idea of a paperless office.
My main use case for Alfresco is to manage all the documentation we digitized from our customers. With Alfresco, it is easy to store, sort, and search for documents. Being open source makes it very customizable, so we can adapt to our customers' demands that are very unique, and we are not able to do with other ECM solutions other than Alfresco. A quick specific example of how I have customized Alfresco to meet a unique customer demand is that Alfresco works great for storing and managing a high volume of documents of any kind of file format. You can even preview commonly used file formats such as PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and many more, and develop custom content transformers to auto convert files that are uploaded into the ECM easily. I love the easy integrations with external APIs that are part of my main use case for how I use Alfresco day-to-day. Workflows can be invoked via REST. Alfresco offers wonderful Swagger documentation for process REST APIs, REST, Mule, Camel, Google Drive, and Box features.
This is mainly for unstructured document management systems with workflow and data classification.
Mostly, the primary use case is to store documents related to transactions in our company. These documents could be signed documents, invoices, purchase orders, etc. While transaction records are stored in our ERP ( /categories/erp ) system, it is crucial to have the document as proof of the transaction. We implement a content manager to link documents in Alfresco ( /products/alfresco-reviews ) with the registry in the ERP ( /categories/erp ) system. This is the most important use case for us.
We used Alfresco as a document management system for automating and digitizing manual forms. Those were the main use cases.
I use Alfresco primarily to look up documents. However, it is not as user-friendly as the previous solution, Nautilus, which I was more familiar with due to my involvement in its configuration and setup.
I mainly use Alfresco for content management, workflow, integration to scanning solutions, and reduction.