Alfresco vs. Qlerify

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alfresco
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
The Alfresco platform, from Hyland, delivers comprehensive cloud-native content services. It is used to intelligently activate processes and content to accelerate the flow of business.N/A
Qlerify
Score 9.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
The Qlerify platform bridges silos between business and it, transforming ideas into comprehensive process maps, data models, software designs, and source code, with the goal of accelerating development cycles, reducing errors, and helping developers to deliver high-quality software solutions faster. Qlerify can visualise a complex discussion with many stake holders in real-time and produce actionable blueprints for developers in record-time. Some features of Qlerify: 1. Co…
$25
per month (billed annually) per user
Pricing
AlfrescoQlerify
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$25
per month (billed annually) per user
Pro
$40
per month (billed annually) per user
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
per year per user
Enterprise
Contact us for pricing
per year per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AlfrescoQlerify
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsQlerify also offers team and project based pricing. Please contact us for more information.
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Community Pulse
AlfrescoQlerify
Considered Both Products
Alfresco
Chose Alfresco
Nextcloud is good for it's intended use case but because Nextcloud has an AGPL license, that limited what we could do with our Proprietary solution, where's Alfresco LGPL is more flexible for us.

Chose Alfresco
The integration is very easy and can be done with minimal time. The features like sending email, inbuilt integration with CAMEl, MULE, BOX, etc. In addition to this, the adoption of activiti-7 (the microservice version) wins the race against other tools. As the infrastructure …
Chose Alfresco
The biggest positive about Alfresco Content Services is its open-source nature. There are many possibilities of utilizing it in existing ecosystems using integrations.
Chose Alfresco
More robust workflow automation.
Chose Alfresco
All software has some pros and some cons. Alfresco has some good pluses, and suits our environment very well. It fit perfectly in the place that we are working on. That is why we decided to go with this software. Overall, the kind of content management that needs to be done in …
Chose Alfresco
- Alfresco provides more capabilities by leveraging open source components. The core architecture itself is JCR compliant which gives easy options for future migrations.
- The PDF rendition in Alfresco comes with LibreOffice at no additional cost.
- Alfresco support integrations …
Chose Alfresco
Java based open source wide community and popular ECM which is used by fortune 500 companies.
Chose Alfresco
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Chose Alfresco
As already explained earlier, the cost of licensing and support comes down very much by using Alfresco compared to Stellent and Sharepoint. Plus the overall performance and feature set is much broader for Alfresco. Since it is a newly developed content management system, it …
Chose Alfresco
Alfresco provides by default a very user-friendly user interface, And it's highly configurable. Moreover, the license model is really interesting compared to both solutions.
Chose Alfresco
Ultimately a cost decision - Alfresco community is free and has a decent community and various forums, books, etc available. The enterprise version is far less expensive than other options (although costs can add up depending on the the hardware it's running on). It is built …
Qlerify
Chose Qlerify
I haven't officially evaluated other process mapping tools. I have however used many tool during the past 30 years. Qlerify is first I am excited about.
Chose Qlerify
Qlerify is faster and easier to use and the UI is superior compared to both Miro and Visio. Real-time collaboration is also easier. Overall, Qlerify is a focused, super-charged process modeling and design tool as opposed to a bloated do-it-all solution and it excels in what it …
Features
AlfrescoQlerify
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Alfresco
8.0
Ratings
1% above category average
Qlerify
-
Ratings
Content capture & imaging3.10 Ratings00 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Document management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Records management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content search & retrieval10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content publishing & creation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated workflows9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Artificial intelligence8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile support3.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Alfresco
-
Ratings
Qlerify
9.3
Ratings
11% above category average
Process designer00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Alfresco
-
Ratings
Qlerify
9.1
Ratings
8% above category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Alfresco
-
Ratings
Qlerify
9.1
Ratings
11% above category average
Content management00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
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User Ratings
AlfrescoQlerify
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(0 ratings)
9.2
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Usability
9.9
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AlfrescoQlerify
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have regulatory or business needs that require saving email into Alfresco and you are using Outlook for Mac, you may need to perform significant customization to make it work. Additionally, if you will have users that will be members to a large numbers of sites over time, you need to thoroughly explore what functionality will be degraded or lost and how to mitigate the impact. Other than these two scenarios, I cannot think of any scenarios where Alfresco would not be well suited to an organization's needs.
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Qlerify is very strong in collaborative work in process modeling and design and it speeds up the discovery process. The ability to create, e.g., user stories and export them directly to Jira backlog is valuable in accelerating software development. The UI is also simple and flexible enough for ad hoc brainstorming.
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Pros
  • Integration with other applications, namely Drupal and Moodle, was simple and works beautifully.
  • The UI is intuitive, clean, and friendly. Users have required little training for basic functionality.
  • We have been pleased with the overall system performance of Alfresco Enterprise Content Management.
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  • Ease of use
  • Versatility. Fit for many type of needs.
  • Closing the gap between business and software.
  • Fast
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Cons
  • Alfresco Process Services and Alfresco Application Development Framework integration makes for best functionality/application of ECM.
  • Use case alignment - Marketing content and documentation of specific business requirements and user stories being available as reference material/documentation.
  • Integration with multiple silos for content.
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  • More realistic and detailed sample projects
  • A bit more context about the different methodologies (such as Event Storming) Qlerify supports
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Likelihood to Renew
As per the current market and the line of products that are available for content and document management system, Alfresco is a very good option compared to other systems in terms of features and cost. Plus the community support is great. Also since the product is open source, it can be extended or understood in a better way.
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Usability
The UI is very intuitive, most of our users figure out how to use the platform by themselves, so there's not much training needed.
You can upload files by using the web drag and drop, WebDAV, FTP, and more.
Most of the platform already works as-is so you can just deploy it using Docker and it's mostly ready to go.
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Support Rating
I am not big fan of Alfresco Content Services' support; it works on its own speed and sometimes it becomes challenging to achieve business needs. However, I appreciate regular delivery of security patches and updates
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Implementation Rating
Process was relatively smooth and overall, downtime minimal. MSI was very responsive to our needs and made the transition easier than it otherwise might have been.
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Alternatives Considered
The integration is very easy and can be done with minimal time. The features like sending email, inbuilt integration with CAMEl, MULE, BOX, etc. In addition to this, the adoption of activiti-7 (the microservice version) wins the race against other tools. As the infrastructure and application modules can be deployed independently.
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I haven't officially evaluated other process mapping tools. I have however used many tool during the past 30 years. Qlerify is first I am excited about.
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Return on Investment
  • It definitely has a positive ROI in the overall business, as content management has become easier and more centralized.
  • Video and image content management has become a major plus, as they play an important role in dynamic digital marketing. Once the code is written to accommodate image and videos, we can change this content any time depending on the season of the year, what products we are looking to market, and to what type of clients.
  • It helps with easy control of the system with the business teams rather than having control with the technology teams. Hence it makes it easy to customize and make changes at any time. This also reduces the overlap that technology has with business and helps treat both of them as separate entities.
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  • We are pretty much doubling our development speed.
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ScreenShots

Alfresco Screenshots

Screenshot of Alfresco Control CenterScreenshot of Alfresco

Qlerify Screenshots

Screenshot of a simple order flow and system requirements for ordering at a restaurant.Screenshot of the customer onboarding process at a fintech startup.Screenshot of the Product Information Management Process for a retailer.Screenshot of an example of a data model visualization (Star Schema).Screenshot of an example of a high-level software design visualizaton inspired by Event Storming and Domain Driven Design.