Investigating Alfresco as Document Management for SMB

tsalin — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 19:35:47 GMT

Hi All, We are a company located on Southern Europe, expert in Document Printing Devices -like professional printers, MFPs and copiers-. As we understand that the future of our sector will move sooner or later to Document Management software, we are investigating for a software which can support pro

Re: Investigating Alfresco as Document Management for SMB

afaust — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:17:06 GMT

Hello,

Alfresco Community can be used in production environments. A lot of users in SMB range as well as institutional users (i.e. scientific, cultural or non-profit organisations) have used Community in production for several years. This includes e.g. Spanish National Library and CERN.

Alfresco One was charged purely on a per-processor basis up until 2013, but now a primarily user-based model is in place with per-processor pricing only for some addons / opt-in elements. The Alfresco One price model lists a 300-user installation as the smallest option, which means that it often is not an affordable option for SMBs. But Alfresco also provides a cloud-based service starting at 50 users which provides the same core functionality and avoids any additional costs (in hosting / infrastructure) that an on-premise installation entails.

Unfortunately it is difficult to give even a rought idea of the cost as the new price model also includes far more flexibility for custom-designed price constructs / discounts than the previous one. Also, any comparison against SharePoint often moot as Microsoft too may be giving ridiculous discounts to snatch up a particular customer.
Last I checked, using rather pessimistic list price models of both, Alfresco One offered about 10-20% savings on a per-user basis compared to SharePoint (not including licenses for additinoally required/related Microsoft infrastructure products).

For a better comparison you should really talk to an Alfresco sales contact.

Regards
Axel

Re: Investigating Alfresco as Document Management for SMB

tsalin — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:27:00 GMT

Hi Axel,

Thanks for your reply. I believe that you cleared my view on Alfresco. I will discuss internally in my company and then probably ask for help from Alfresco Sales Team! However as far as I understand it, it might worth investing resources.
Thanks for your time !

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