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Apache Airflow vs OpenText Documentum Content Management comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Apache Airflow
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (3rd)
OpenText Documentum Content...
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Apache Airflow and OpenText Documentum Content Management aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Apache Airflow is designed for Business Process Management (BPM) and holds a mindshare of 6.1%, down 8.7% compared to last year.
OpenText Documentum Content Management, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Content Management, holds 12.1% mindshare, up 10.6% since last year.
Business Process Management (BPM)
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Madhan Potluri - PeerSpot reviewer
We efficiently manage and monitor production pipelines through job resumption and error log integration
We utilize Apache Airflow for managing machine learning production pipelines. The deployment of our machine learning models takes place through Apache Airflow. We configure pipelines, decide on the frequency of recalibration, deployment, and dataset training Apache Airflow allows us to resume…
Ashish Shelar - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers version control capabilities, easy to set up but highly-priced
The main thing is the cost. Most of the time, organizations move away from Documentum due to cost. It's highly-priced, and the support costs are high. Now, SharePoint and other options. Microsoft gives free licenses, so organizations mainly look for cost-effective products. The second thing is updates and patching. We patch very often, every six months or a year. We have SP1, SP2, and SP3, and then suddenly, it's moved out of support. That's the organization's main pain area. They don't want to keep investing from a storage perspective. The licensing model should be changed. The product itself is out of support. They have not considered it for AI initiatives. The new version should be on the cloud. I'm not sure if the new version of Documentum, xECM, is cloud compatible or on which cloud it is compatible, but the OpenText server itself is on a cloud, which would be beneficial to the business. And it would also be easier for migration.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The user interface for monitoring and managing workflows has been excellent, particularly in the latest version. c"
"I worked on a project at a leading German bank for two years, successfully migrating large applications with hundreds of jobs."
"Apache Airflow is a stable and flexible platform."
"The reason we went with Airflow is its DAG presentation, that shows the relationships among everything. It's more of a configuration-driven workflow."
"We have been quite satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"This is a simple tool to automate using Python."
"I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"OpenText Documentum is a robust choice for enterprise-level document management."
"The most valuable feature is that the documents are kept secure."
"The product is user-friendly."
"It is a very secure system. It is reliable, and that is one of the reasons people manage their content within Documentum. It gives them the confidence that the content is accessible to the right people and not to the wrong people."
"It provides possibilities for us to save documents and supporting the business process while doing so."
"The most valuable feature is the management."
"The storage of metadata content, workflows, and life cycles are the most valuable features of OpenText Documentum."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a central repository for everything, whether it's videos, documents, Excel sheets, etc."
 

Cons

"It would be beneficial to improve the pricing structure."
"I have some issues with the solution's communication."
"It is not suitable for real-time ETL tasks."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"The dashboards could be enhanced."
"The documentation must be improved."
"We're currently using version 1.10, but I understand that there's a lot of improvements in version 2. In the earlier version that we're using, we sometimes have problems with maintenance complexity. Actually using Airflow is okay, but maintaining it has been difficult."
"The scalability of the solution itself is not as we expected. Being on the cloud, it should be easy to scale, however, it's not."
"OpenText Documentum is moving to the cloud, and I am concerned about the security aspect of it."
"The user interface can be a bit more intuitive."
"Sometimes DocBroker cannot see the DocBase."
"One area for improvement in OpenText Documentum is its handling of outdated documents, especially technical ones."
"The price is quite high as the licensing prices are significant."
"It's difficult to manage and customize Documentum."
"The BPM side should be improved."
"The main issue is the software's performance when storing around 10 million or more documents. It becomes slow and needs improvement. Perhaps it's a cloud-related issue, but it needs to be addressed. It could be due to our S3 bucket or something else. Nevertheless, this is a significant challenge we're facing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is free if you use Amazon AWS."
"Apache Airflow is open-source and free of charge."
"The solution is cheap."
"The cost is quite affordable."
"I use the tool's open-source version."
"It's open-source."
"Apache Airflow is a cheap solution."
"Although Airflow is open source software, there's also commercial support for it by Astronomer. We personally don't use the commercial support, but it's always an option if you don't mind the extra cost."
"It is quite an expensive product."
"OpenText Documentum has announced a new licensing model, which could be more expensive."
"It falls in line with a lot of things that are out there on the market. There is nothing extraordinary in terms of great or bad."
"The product is expensive."
"OpenText Documentum's pricing is good."
"The price is considered affordable now."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
5%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Government
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which would you choose - Camunda Platform or Apache Airflow?
Camunda Platform allows for visual demonstration and presentation of business process flows. The flexible Java-based option was a big win for us and allows for the integration of microservices very...
What do you like most about Apache Airflow?
Apache Airflow is easy to use and can monitor task execution easily. For instance, when performing setup tasks, you can conveniently view the logs without delving into the job details.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Airflow?
We don't experience issues with pricing as Apache Airflow is part of a larger platform. It is a sub-feature and not an individual purchase.
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 great or bad.
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 department and role.
What needs improvement with OpenText Documentum?
The interface of OpenText Documentum could be more intuitive; sometimes it is hard to find where the information is located.
 

Also Known As

Airflow
Dell EMC Documentum, Documentum , Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Agari, WePay, Astronomer
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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