Enterprise content management

Elium vs Alfresco

Alfresco was built for records, retention and compliance. Elium is the trusted knowledge platform – one governed source your teams and your AI answer from. Move the knowledge; keep the records where compliance needs them.

Global leaders to growing teams, turning knowledge into answers with Elium

L'Oréal
VINCI
BNP Paribas
BCG
Lime
Council of Europe
Restos du Cœur
Servier
ENEDIS
Fnac Darty
SPIE
Savencia

Governed foundation

A lifecycle for usefulness, not just retention

Alfresco's lifecycle is built around documents: what to keep, what to dispose of, when. Elium's lifecycle is built around answers: every article has a named owner, a review date and a validation flow, and gaps get detected and assigned. Different jobs, different mechanics.

  • A named owner on every article
  • Review dates and validation flows built in
  • Gap detection: missing answers get found and assigned

AI you can stand behind

AI answers grounded in content shaped for answers

AI search on top of a records system means asking AI to read records. Elium grounds Copilot, your own agents or its built-in AI in content built to answer questions – owned, current and structured – with citations back to the source and permissions respected in every response.

  • Every answer cites its source article
  • Permissions respected in every AI response
  • Workswith Copilot, agent platforms and Elium's own AI

Delivered everywhere

One source, served wherever your teams work

Elium serves answers inside the tools your teams already use – Teams, Slack, ITSM tools, portals and your own apps through the API – in every language you work in. An ECM serves the people who manage documents. Elium reaches everyone who needs answers.

  • Served in Teams, Slack, ITSM tools and portals
  • Multi-language publishing and translation built in
  • Federated searchacross articles and external systems

Built for the people who use it

Made for end users, not for system operators

Alfresco's experience is shaped for ECM operators – metadata, retention rules, workflow engines. The people who need answers work differently. Elium gives support agents, HR partners and ops managers a tool they actually like: easy reading, easy co-editing, decision trees that guide them to the right answer.

  • Purpose-builtfor finding and reading answers
  • Real-time co-editing, attributed and versioned
  • Decision trees and proceduresfor frontline teams

Our advisors no longer interrupt supervisors or rely on colleagues who might have outdated information. They go directly to Elium and find the current and correct process.

David Lefevre, Head of Knowledge and Deployment – Fnac Darty

Faster access to knowledge, first-try search success, and shorter ramp-up time for new employees.

Bérangère Guillot, Knowledge Manager – Transformation & Performance – SPIE ICS

  • Independently owned for over a decade
  • Based in Belgium
  • ISO 27001
  • GDPR

Switching to Elium is easier than you think.

Get a dedicated onboarding team

You're never in it alone. Our specialists design a knowledge structure around your teams, your workflows and your existing content, not a template.

See our deployment services

Migrate with tools and a team

Our tools and team migrate your Alfresco content. We keep the structure worth keeping and help you archive the rest. Most teams are live in four to eight weeks.

How switching works

Get support built for knowledge managers

Always-on customer success, a deep help centre, and training for the people who manage knowledge, not just the people who read it.

Talk to an advisor

And your knowledge stays yours: everything exports in open formats, any time.

FAQ

Questions we hearfrom teams switching from Alfresco

Yes. We import from Alfresco and keep the structure worth keeping. Our team helps you decide what becomes governed knowledge, what gets archived and what stays as records – migration is the right moment to clean up. Start with a migration assessment: we look at your content and give you a clear plan.
No. Elium is not a records management system, and we do not claim to replace compliance-grade retention or audit mechanics. Move the living knowledge – procedures, playbooks, policies people act on – and keep formal records where compliance needs them.
Yes. Many teams slim Alfresco down to its records role and move everything people actually read into Elium. The two connect through integrations and federated search, so nothing gets lost in between.
Yes – we migrate the knowledge content, not the customisations. Workflow rules built for document management rarely need rebuilding in a knowledge platform. Most teams are live in four to eight weeks.
Elium is built and run in Belgium, hosted in Europe, ISO 27001 certified and GDPR-compliant. Full documentation is available in the Trust Center.

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