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On Demand Migration vs OpenText Migrate​ comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

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

On Demand Migration
Ranking in Migration Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Active Directory Management (8th), SaaS Management Platforms (10th)
OpenText Migrate​
Ranking in Migration Tools
4th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Migration Tools category, the mindshare of On Demand Migration is 19.6%, down from 38.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Migrate​ is 4.8%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Migration Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
On Demand Migration19.6%
OpenText Migrate​4.8%
Other75.6%
Migration Tools
 

Featured Reviews

SG
Sr. system engineer at SDGC
Has migrated user mailboxes and collaboration data with minimal challenges
I'm currently working with On Demand Migration solution from Quest. I am providing feedback regarding my experience with On Demand Migration. I have used automated scheduling in On Demand Migration. I can run immediate migration or schedule it as per my convenience, but I have used the run immediately option because I needed it on an urgent basis. The effectiveness of On Demand Migration detailed reporting in managing migration progress is quite good, as there is a report option where I can see what migration got successfully completed, which failed, and even the problem ID and event ID, allowing me to troubleshoot easily on the demand portal. I have not explored the data filtering options. I have not explored data filtering for filtering the data. In terms of data security, we are using independent DLP for data protection in our organization. I have not explored features such as AI functionality or additional security aspects, as I have explored only On Demand Migration for mailbox, Teams chat, Teams channel, and OneDrive. For O365 to O365, it's a very good and easy tool, so I can recommend anyone using O365 to O365 tenant migration to go with On Demand Migration. My overall rating for this product is 9 out of 10.
Ludovik DOPIERALA - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Service Line at ARTEMYS INVEST
Migration projects have become faster and have saved significant time on complex workloads
OpenText Migrate is our primary tool. I know they have a lot of other products like DNS and tools from cybersecurity, but we don't use it at this time. On Demand Recovery, for recovery, we use another tool from OpenText. It's C2C. It's a product to back up the mailbox. I don't know what I can find at this time. So maybe yes, but the last time I used it was a few months ago. It does the job, so I don't have an opinion on this currently. They don't have a lot of marketing actions. We know this product because we are an OpenText partner for the C2C. But it's another division. It's another part of the company. So we don't have a lot of information. So, I think they can improve the communication for the end-user because a lot of customers do not know OpenText, and they don't know they can provide this type of tool. My overall rating for this product is 9.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"They have a demo version that you can test before you purchase it so you can see that it does what you need before you commit financially."
"The data is pretty secure."
"You can batch up large groups. You can tell it to move everything for 200 people, and then it just goes. Once you get things set and configured, it is pretty easy. I can hand it off to people more junior to me who are less trained on the product, and they can be successful."
"Quest allows you to customize your migration. For example, you can opt only to migrate Microsoft Teams and the related data or you can migrate all of Office 365. You can also choose to migrate accounts and mailboxes. Sometimes, we don't want to migrate SharePoint data, or we only want to migrate specific users."
"The solution is really stable when it comes to mailbox migration and all of the following work very well: the mail content, the OneDrive for Business content, and migrating all Azure AD objects."
"We can see the issues that may come up during migration. We can handle multiple workloads using this since it connects with Microsoft 365."
"It's very easy to use. What I like is that if there is an error, for each task, I can find out what actually went wrong."
"The most valuable features of Quest On Demand Migration have been the M365 migration and Active Directory (AD) migration components."
"OpenText Migrate is a very good product because it is an older product and they have a lot of tools, and they have a lot of experience on the migration tools."
"Carbonite Migrate works well in Windows platform migrations and in the case of a VML platform. The migration is smooth in Windows environments."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Carbonite Migrate is helpful on an infrastructure level."
 

Cons

"One of the things that can be included is automation. For the matching and the migration process, they could put in some automation. I'm only allowed about 25 users at a time. If it's a large tenant, it takes quite a while to put them in the batches. If there is enough automation into that, that'd be perfect."
"One significant issue that often elicited complaints during domain migration was the need to set the primary UPN for objects once they were migrated to the target."
"The granting of consent for doing the different tasks is confusing."
"In terms of Microsoft Teams, the only disappointment for us has been how the chats are migrated. They just don't look exactly the same as they would if you were logging on as normal. Obviously, when it comes to the user experience, you want the look and feel of everything to be replicated identically, and chats is the only part of it that doesn't look identical. However, it's not a 'car crash.' It's a slight deviation from what people would expect."
"It would be more useful if I could scope the dashboard. I would like to be able to scope the users that I want to see to a much smaller list. When I am looking into a tenant with 35,000 accounts, and I am only moving 2,000 of them, I wish that the guys had been smarter about the discovery, and I could have only discovered those accounts, but there is not too much to complain about."
"It's definitely the Microsoft Teams functionality that has a lot of aspects where improvements are needed. Microsoft 365 Groups are tightly connected to Teams and there are a lot of improvements needed there as well."
"Their support interface is not so great because you need to go through several links before you can raise the ticket. Sometimes the interface freezes up, and there is some downtime. They give us some notice. It says at the top of the interface that there will be scheduled maintenance in a given region or there is currently an outage. You can see upcoming downtime in the portal and plan accordingly."
"Quest On Demand Migration needs to simplify its migration with Microsoft."
"The pricing for the customer is always too expensive."
"Migration in RHEL and Linux environments can be improved. During RHEL migration with multiple data areas, you have to create a similar source environment at the destination. This can be challenging because you have to install it, create the VM, install over it, and mount it at the mount point. Only then can you do the migration."
"Carbonite failed when moving GIS data."
"We find it very difficult to use these tools in a multi-cloud environment"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I find the pricing to be cost-efficient for what you receive with the Quest product."
"We are fine with the tool's pricing."
"The solution is on the more expensive side, when you compare it not only to BitTitan but to other tools in the cloud market. Of course, you receive things like Quest's support organization."
"I thought On Demand Migration would be more expensive. I'm pleased with the cost that was quoted."
"The pricing is in line with other products."
"It is more than fair for what you get."
"It is quite cheap. Previously, I used to work for a big company, and they get quite a good deal, and now, I'm working for a small company, and even they get quite a good deal. So, its pricing is quite fair."
"The product had reasonable pricing until the beginning of this year. Now, the price is increased by 20%."
"In terms of pricing, I think it's an expensive tool."
"The licensing costs are really high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Quest On Demand Migration?
The most valuable features of Quest On Demand Migration have been the M365 migration and Active Directory (AD) migration components.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quest On Demand Migration?
I don't have knowledge about the pricing part since my boss from directly USA is handling that.
What needs improvement with Quest On Demand Migration?
As of now, I have not observed any issue that could be enhanced in this tool.
What needs improvement with Carbonite Migrate?
C2C is OpenText. It's Carbonite. It was a backup for the mailbox and Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, or similar applications. We don't use it. The only tools that we use to encrypt data are the legacy...
What is your primary use case for Carbonite Migrate?
I use this project because I work for an IT company in France and we perform a lot of migration work, and we often use OpenText Migrate. We perform a lot of migration of Microsoft Active Directory,...
 

Also Known As

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Sample Customers

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Computrade Malaysia
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