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Atlassian Confluence vs OpenText Documentum Content Management comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
105
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Enterprise Social Software (3rd), Knowledge Management Software (1st)
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

Atlassian Confluence and OpenText Documentum Content Management aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Atlassian Confluence is designed for Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) and holds a mindshare of 14.4%, down 19.1% compared to last year.
OpenText Documentum Content Management, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Content Management, holds 12.4% mindshare, up 10.6% since last year.
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Rabindra K Maharana - PeerSpot reviewer
Editing features improve document accessibility
There is a holiday calendar, however, I need to install an app or add something to it. The add-on feature is not readily available or well-documented. Guidance on this should be available in a forum. Recently, I used a feature in another tool—perhaps GitHub—where it helped prepare a chart. It involved listing resources, like having fifteen people in the X team, ten in the Y team, and seven in the Z team. It created a bar chart showing these numbers. This chart used AI to offer users the option to create it based on the data. It was then created on a separate page and made available.
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

"A simple tool for developers to write and record team decisions explaining the product that they are creating."
"Confluence is easy to use and integrate with other solutions, including social media platforms."
"Atlassian Confluence's most valuable features are the ease in which you can use the tool, the flexibility in creating folder structures, receiving notifications in case others put remarks on the documents, and working together on documents."
"Collaboration is most valuable. You can upload or create your documents on Confluence and share them with your team members. Your team members also can share documents."
"It's easy to search for information."
"It is just the fact that it is a one-stop shop for all project documentation. It is compared to storing things in files and directories and stuff like that. It provides the overall usability and accessibility of many projects and documents in one area."
"The templates are a valuable feature. You can make templates. There is a space inside where you can create pages. When you use the template, the page auto-generates text and images. You do not have to think about the structure of your page as well, which I think is a very good thing for a user. Because usually when you're in front of a blank page, it can be a bit dreadful to know where to start."
"Confluence can link any ticket or task from JIRA to be included on the Confluence page."
"I appreciate Documentum's scalability, allowing for vast volumes of content storage."
"The stability is very good."
"I am satisfied with OpenText Documentum so far; it has great integration capabilities."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Documentum for our content management needs is its ability to segregate access based on department and role."
"It provides possibilities for us to save documents and supporting the business process while doing so."
"The product is tamper-proof and enables us to return to the document source, which is helpful in legal issues."
"The most valuable feature is that the documents are kept secure."
 

Cons

"Atlassian Confluence's old versions consume too much memory, making it an area where optimization is required from an improvement perspective."
"It would be interesting if they had graphical templates that allowed typical agile ceremonies to be documented better."
"An area for improvement would be the intuitiveness of using the features, especially if you want to customize."
"The UX is a little bit all over the place."
"RAM usage seems to be higher than it should be."
"Indentation and other basic word processing styles must be improved."
"They can improve the table feature of Confluence. It is currently not adequate."
"There is a holiday calendar, however, I need to install an app or add something to it. The add-on feature is not readily available or well-documented."
"While generally secure, some noted security issues need consideration. The installation process for on-premise setup needs improvement as well."
"The product needs to improve the way documents are logged together. I believe running it on the cloud or containerization will bring value to it. The tool's Time to Market and deployment cycle need to be improved. Finding suitable training materials for OpenText Documentum is also a bottleneck. If we can find the training modules easily, we can bring together people, give them quick training, and start working on the deployment. It can help with quick outputs."
"It can be somewhat cumbersome for the operations team since it’s not a cloud instance"
"OpenText Documentum needs to improve its support."
"One area for improvement in OpenText Documentum is its handling of outdated documents, especially technical ones."
"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."
"The price is quite high as the licensing prices are significant."
"The user interface can be a bit more intuitive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing wise, it ends up being an expensive solution. In the beginning it's cheap, but by the time you have all the functions you need, it turns out to be expensive."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive, meaning its price falls somewhere in the mid-range zone."
"There is an annual license."
"We pay $350 a month to use the solution."
"Making integration with other tools easier would be beneficial."
"To my knowledge, Atlassian Confluence had a pricing approach which is a commercial open-source solution, so that if you are a company, you had to pay an amount. This fee was not huge compared to other traditional solutions, and it was free for personal use or if you were an individual."
"We have to pay licensing fees."
"The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons."
"It is quite an expensive product."
"OpenText Documentum's pricing is good."
"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."
"OpenText Documentum has announced a new licensing model, which could be more expensive."
"The product is expensive."
"The price is considered affordable now."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
59%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Government
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Atlassian Confluence?
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from its document-controlling feature. In Atlassian Confluence, controlled documents cannot be edited by anyone else.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlassian Confluence?
With Atlassian, the costs are reasonable. Although higher than before when we used multiple platforms and licenses, having a collaborative platform like this is advantageous. It streamlines license...
What needs improvement with Atlassian Confluence?
There is a holiday calendar, however, I need to install an app or add something to it. The add-on feature is not readily available or well-documented. Guidance on this should be available in a foru...
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

Confluence
Dell EMC Documentum, Documentum , Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform
 

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Sample Customers

Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
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