Alfresco vs Objective ECM vs OpenText Documentum comparison

Hyland and Objective are both solutions in the Enterprise Content Management category. Hyland is ranked #9 with an average rating of 6.3, while Objective is ranked #19. Hyland holds a 7.6% mindshare in ECM, compared to Objective’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 77% of Hyland users are willing to recommend the solution.

Alfresco

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1,715 Comparison Views

77% willing to recommend

Objective ECM

Read 1 Objective ECM review

396 Views
327 Comparison Views

0% willing to recommend

OpenText Documentum

Read 31 OpenText Documentum reviews

3,382 Views
2,516 Comparison Views

83% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Alfresco, Objective ECM, and OpenText Documentum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of Alfresco is 7.6%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Objective ECM is 1.2%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Documentum is 12.5%, up from 10.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Content Management

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Karthi Keyan

Head Of Information Technology at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Streamlining document management with enhanced digitalization features needed

We used Alfresco as a document management system for automating and digitizing manual forms. Those were the main use cases The digitalization of workflow, forms, operations, and business processes has improved our organization. The most valuable features of Alfresco include its integration with…

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it_user144594

Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The ability to have duplicate document names is very useful for content migration. During trouble-shooting you will discover that the logs are all over the place.

During trouble-shooting you will discover that the logs are all over the place - even on servers you would not expect - and fragmented into dozens of files, yet the detail is excellent. It's Java execution logs, so needs a bit of interpretation skill, though. Speaking of Java, the web interface requires JRE and degrades in mysterious ways without it: No warnings or graceful fall-back. The web UI is otherwise VERY awkward and limited in functionality. The Windows client on the other hand is extremely dated but rich in functionality - not pretty, though. Despite the API, there is no vendor support for integration into any other systems except through HTML frames.

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Sunil Mudambi

Founder & Managing Director at 3 Cubed Business Consulting Pte Ltd

Saves time and increases an organization's productivity

It's a great enterprise content management product. Our customers love the product for its stability and scalability. Search is the most useful feature of the solution. The way we retrieve documents is more important than how we store them. There's no use if we can't find a document. It's the most critical feature. My organization works with other customers. We are consultants for OpenText. Our customers have seen a lot of benefits in terms of regulatory compliance. Industries like banking are highly regulated. The product captures the information centrally so everybody in the bank can see the right information at the right time. It is tamper-proof and enables us to return to the document source, which is helpful with legal issues.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Government

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Insurance Company

Government

32%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

19%

Government

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

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By reviewers

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Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alfresco?

The pricing of Alfresco starts at $100,000, which can be expensive for small projects. There is often a transition fr...

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What needs improvement with Alfresco?

Currently, documents in Alfresco are stored on a file server, which, while good for performance, is a security risk. ...

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What is your primary use case for Alfresco?

Mostly, the primary use case is to store documents related to transactions in our company. These documents could be s...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Documentum?

It falls in line with a lot of things that are out there on the market. There is nothing extraordinary in terms of gr...

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What do you like most about OpenText Documentum?

The most valuable feature of Documentum for our content management needs is its ability to segregate access based on ...

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What needs improvement with OpenText Documentum?

The price is quite high as the licensing prices are significant.

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Comparisons

Hyland OnBase vs Alfresco

Compared 19% of the time

SharePoint vs Alfresco

Compared 11% of the time

OpenText Extended ECM vs Alfresco

Compared 10% of the time

IBM FileNet vs Alfresco

Compared 8% of the time

Nuxeo vs Alfresco

Compared 8% of the time

More Alfresco Competitors

SharePoint vs Objective ECM

Compared 82% of the time

OpenText Content Manager vs Objective ECM

Compared 18% of the time

More Objective ECM Competitors

SharePoint vs OpenText Documentum

Compared 23% of the time

OpenText Extended ECM vs OpenText Documentum

Compared 18% of the time

IBM FileNet vs OpenText Documentum

Compared 12% of the time

Hyland OnBase vs OpenText Documentum

Compared 9% of the time

OpenText Content Manager vs OpenText Documentum

Compared 5% of the time

Product Reports

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Alfresco

May 2025

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Enterprise Content Management

May 2025

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OpenText Documentum

April 2025

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Also Known As

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Dell EMC Documentum, Documentum , Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform

Overview

The Alfresco Digital Business Platform offers open, secure content services to let you unlock the value from your most important business information. Give users access to their content wherever and however they work with Alfresco’s open, flexible, and highly scalable cloud-native content services platform. Easily integrate and connect with everyday business applications. Find, view, collaborate on, govern, and securely share digital content—and get information to the right person at the right time.

Hyland

Objective ECM is a comprehensive suite of modules that connects content to people and the business systems they work with on a daily basis. Designed to maximise user adoption with zero training, Objective ECM delivers a simple, fast and personal experience that can be shared on a vast scale.

Objective

OpenText Documentum organizes, preserves and makes information
accessible, while ensuring it adheres to all privacy and security
protocols. Documentum manages content across file stores and integrates
with enterprise applications, including SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft,
to help organizations conquer information management challenges.

Documentum provides integrated support for the entire lifecycle of a
wide range of content; beyond typical office documents to include CAD files, design
templates, rich media, audio, video, instant messaging threads, blog
posts, images and more.

OpenText

Sample Customers

Over 1,300 companies from 180 different countries. Including EuroStar, Saks Fifth Avenue, NASA Langley Research Center, and KLM.

ACT Planning and Land Authority, Australian Department of Defence, Barwon Water, City of Darebin, Delta Electricity, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, Health Corporate Network, Hobsons Bay City Council, LandCorp, Port of Brisbane

Agility; Bibliotheca Alexandrina; Capitec Bank; Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa; County of Los Angeles, Department of Human Resources; Fresenius Kabi; Heathrow Airport; Lahey Health; Linde PLC; Milestone Pharma Co. Ltd; National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; Open Grid Europe GmbH; REPCO NEX Industrial Solutions; Springer Nature; Syngene International; Tata Power DDL; University of Texas Austin

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