Real Powers of Alfresco!

Private enterprises and government agencies get enthusiastic about, amongst many, Alfresco’s scalability, flexibility and powerful search capabilities, till…their users start actually using it! It’s fair to say that Alfresco’s UI is not one of its strong points. Clients who are the most satisfied with Alfresco are the ones who leveraged its power as a headless server application, an engine, a Repository, and either integrated it with other systems or created their own UI.

Aligning Alfresco as a headless application would open up the potential for stronger growth in sectors relying on case management and business processes. Enterprises in these sectors usually use UI systems that are more specific to their business needs rather than a vanilla-flavored document and content management UI, but would definitely need Alfresco’s rich backend capabilities such as the flexible content modeling and categorization, powerful search capabilities, granular security and record management.

Another under appreciated potential is using Alfresco as the backend Repository of web content (remember the Alfresco Publisher Add-on…!), that concept was right on spot, but it required a more admin-friendly, template-driven, and a headless approach to it.

Alfresco is a powerful software that has defeated major vendors in the realm in head-to-head comparison of features and scalability, but this gets undermined, at times, when it comes to the end-user experience, freeing Alfresco of that and aligning it more as the powerful headless application that it is would actually expand it’s growth and horizons.