We performed a comparison between Alfresco and OpenText Documentum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"Document repository."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the security, storage, and document search capability."
"We primarily use it for storing documents. We host a variety of documents in OpenText Documentum. This includes raw files, analyzed files, and documents in multiple formats."
"We like Documentum for its capacity and reliability."
"Two things are excellent in Documentum. One is business process management. The other is its support for metadata."
"It provides possibilities for us to save documents and supporting the business process while doing so."
"The most valuable feature is that the documents are kept secure."
"The product is tamper-proof and enables us to return to the document source, which is helpful in legal issues."
"I appreciate Documentum's scalability, allowing for vast volumes of content storage."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"It should provide more tools to help clients upgrade solutions based on Webtop."
"OpenText Documentum's user interface could be improved a little bit."
"OpenText Documentum needs to improve its support."
"Sometimes DocBroker cannot see the DocBase."
"One area for improvement in OpenText Documentum is its handling of outdated documents, especially technical ones."
"We mostly use the Life Sciences package. That package is somewhat dated. There should be enhancements to the Life Science package and additional offerings to support pharma in particular."
"They should develop something so that bugs don't happen in our project. We make changes manually and some bugs happen."
"The user interface can be improved."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while OpenText Documentum is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Content Management with 26 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while OpenText Documentum is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Documentum writes "Saves time and increases an organization's productivity". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, IBM FileNet, OpenText Extended ECM and Nuxeo, whereas OpenText Documentum is most compared with OpenText Extended ECM, SharePoint, IBM FileNet, Hyland OnBase and OpenText Content Manager.
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