IBM ECM vs IBM FileNet vs Microsoft OneDrive for Business comparison

The compared IBM ECM and IBM FileNet solutions aren't in the same category. IBM ECM is ranked #14 in ECM , with an average rating of 7.5, and holds a 2.5% mindshare in the category. IBM FileNet is ranked #2 in ECM , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 6.2% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of IBM ECM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of IBM FileNet users who would recommend it.

IBM ECM

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94% willing to recommend

IBM FileNet

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91% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

Enterprise Content Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM ECM	2.5%
SharePoint	11.3%
OpenText Content Management	8.0%
Other	78.2%

Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Content Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM FileNet	6.2%
SharePoint	11.3%
OpenText Content Management	8.0%
Other	74.5%

Enterprise Content Management

Content Collaboration Platforms Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Microsoft OneDrive for Business	7.3%
Office 365	10.2%
Google Workspace	9.3%
Other	73.2%

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Featured Reviews

Thinh Tran

BPM Consultant at TECHCOMBANK

Has supported enterprise document storage but lacks cloud readiness and AI capabilities

The new version of IBM ECM is at the end of support, and we need to migrate to a new version to get open support. We need AI capabilities from IBM ECM for additional functionalities in the next release. Specifically, AI is needed for finding documents. The trend is moving toward AI, and for managing many documents effectively, we need AI capabilities. Currently, IBM ECM only handles physical files, not unstructured files. IBM needs to work alongside customers and share best practices for IBM ECM. Reading the IBM Redbook alone is not sufficient for the knowledge we need to build the best architecture for my company. IBM ECM needs to improve the cloud version, such as compatibility with Amazon Cloud, not only IBM Cloud, to make their product more competitive.

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Shankar-Kambhampaty

Consulting CTO at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees

Business workflows have been automated and document processes are streamlined at large scale

I believe IBM FileNet could be improved or enhanced in the future, specifically the user interface development support, which, despite all the improvements, still feels from the 2010s or 2000s. The current state of the user interface development support and the ability to customize it leaves much to be desired. The backend engine, process engine, and object engine are fantastic. However, the user interface, which is required to provide an impressive experience to the user, is difficult to build. IBM will need to do something about this area. Over time, IBM has made improvements with enhancements through CP4BA and other tools, with which user interfaces can be built. But there is much more is needed. The initial setup process for IBM FileNet requires specialists. IBM FileNet is not a click-click-click deploy kind of product. It has several components that need to be installed in different versions and in a particular order. Additionally, IBM Cloud does not provide a proper experience. The problem is I cannot use IBM Cloud easily. I cannot even get a membership easily. With AWS, I just use my credit card, sign up, and I am done. With IBM Cloud, that is not how it is. They go through all validation processes, and it is a nightmare at times. There are problems around IBM FileNet, not exactly with IBM FileNet itself, but the point is that it is not a click-click-click deploy either on the cloud or on-premise. It requires specialists, and there is a big learning curve toward deploying and managing the whole infrastructure as well as the software. I communicate with the technical support of IBM frequently. I have communicated several times, and frankly, there is much to be desired on that side. When you raise a ticket, it takes 24 to 48 hours for them to respond. We live in a time where business moves at the speed of light. Twenty-four hours is a very long time. You need to be able to get technical support instantaneously. It is not like the more contemporary support models where you get turnaround in minutes, not days.

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AbhishekMishra2

Technology Analyst at Infosys

Positive features enhance collaboration but room for improvement in file syncing

Regarding Microsoft OneDrive for Business's versioning control, sometimes there are syncing problems. Microsoft OneDrive for Business is available on the cloud as well as on my local machine. When we put a file in Microsoft OneDrive for Business on the local machine, it takes some time to sync, and sometimes it gives an error, which is a specific issue I have encountered. If Microsoft works on the syncing part of Microsoft OneDrive for Business, it would greatly enhance its functionality. Sometimes we update a file, and it isn't showing on another end, which requires us to run a sync again for it to appear. That part, if addressed by Microsoft, would be great. I love SharePoint more, so I will provide feedback in relation to that. SharePoint has only one folder, and we must create multiple folders within that to store files. If they introduce a categorized option, similar to SharePoint where we have team site differentiators, and options for creating communication sites, that would be fantastic for Microsoft OneDrive for Business.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The vertical scalability, as we can use it across some of our applications."

"I am going to continue using it because it is a good product for enterprise document management."

"The tool is a very stable solution with high availability and no information leakage. It has built-in API integration on-site. You can integrate with other components and applications like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, etc."

"The scalability is a valuable feature, that we're able to display our documents to so many people."

"The content management is all about you as you can make the same content for minimal purpose solutions applications."

"The most valuable feature is access control."

"The usability is really good. Our business users are pleased with it. They seem to get what they are looking for, and it's very efficient."

"[The most valuable features are] scalability and ease of use. These features are important because the customer where we have deployed it has millions of documents... And over the last five years, the volume of the documents has been increasing. It's handling all of them and without any errors."

"The most critical benefit has been ease of use. It speeds along our development helping us go to market a lot sooner."

"It has an excellent document storage repository, which is good at what it does."

"IBM FileNet enhanced the productivity of our work and increased overall productivity."

"The standout feature for us is undoubtedly the Google-like search functionality, which allows us to search for documents within the system effortlessly. Instead of just querying the document database, this feature retrieves all relevant documents, akin to searching on the internet. It is very easy to use."

"FileNet provides a compact solution for midsized companies."

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"The best features of Microsoft OneDrive for Business are its continuous improvement in terms of cloud capabilities, security features, and user experience as it's enhancing every day compared to the past."

"It is simple to use and it allows me to give me the opportunity to access anything I want from any device."

"It helps you keep organized."

"The best features in Microsoft OneDrive are that it makes the files available from around the world, so users are not tied to a computer."

"The best thing about Microsoft OneDrive for Business is its shared part—for Microsoft OneDrive for Business, we can share folder labels as well as specific files, which is the best feature that I would recommend."

"One of the best features of Microsoft OneDrive for Business is that it synchronizes the information with the cloud."

"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."

"They have support for integration with a lot of tools."

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Cons

"I think it's already getting away from Java applets. A lot of our users struggle with keeping up to date with Java versioning, so a lot of the functions they're doing, like printing, emailing, and even some of the viewing, they're struggling with."

"Currently, IBM ECM only handles physical files, not unstructured files."

"The development platform is not local. For example, you need 100 days in IBM, whereas other platforms, like ServiceNow, need only 20 days."

"I would recommend not going with ECM 8 and going with FileNet instead. It seems like that is the future of the lower-volume repository. It seems like they are moving away from ECM 8.5 so I think we're going to have some challenges coming up, getting off of that technology."

"I would like to see seamless application integration."

"We brought DocuSign into our company's solution three years before. At that time there was no direct integration. We would like to pull documents out from FileNet, push them to DocuSign and, when done, retrieve them and store them back in FileNet. We wrote our own custom solution for that. It would be nice if there was some tool we could have used to do that."

"It may be a little complex to implement and take some effort."

"To start with there are too many add-ons, which makes it hard for us. If they simplified the add-ons and plugins to be added to our existing systems, it would definitely help us in the future."

"IBM doesn't offer new technologies every year, they offer new technologies after five years, for each release of the product."

"It is stable as long as you create the right environment. We have had issues at times, but just because of configuration issues."

"The basic and fundamental point about FileNet is that the interface is very bad. It's just not appealing so people are reluctant to use it."

"IBM has a lot of documentation but the kind of information in a lot of the documents can be confusing to our clients. It would be easier if they used video tutorials. Right now, the information is too hard to understand, and there is a lot of it. If they used videos I think FinalNet would be easy to use for an end-user."

"If I had a concern, it would be that we are sometimes not getting to the root cause of the issues from a technical standpoint as quickly as we should. For the most part, it's good. However, when things get a bit dicey with more involved issues, we have had some delays in getting feedback. If I had a concern, it's around the technical support and their responses in regards to things like root cause analysis."

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"The website could be improved. Sometimes I try to login and the website has issues, I can't retrieve my documents."

"One of the things that I find to be challenging about Microsoft OneDrive for Business, specifically working with Windows eleven, is that it automatically tries to sync up accounts."

"An increase in the capacity of storage in the free version would be nice."

"No one gets an alert when files are deleted."

"It takes too long for OneDrive to synchronize various applications, especially when you are saving office data. It also requires too much bandwidth."

"The area that can be improved is to be able to share easily with folks outside the organization and with folks who don't have an office account. Sometimes, when you send a link, you might have some form of repetition. If you don't know how to share it properly, whoever you are sharing it with will have issues using it. Also, the link that you use to share a document can be made a bit shorter. It doesn't have to be long. Typically, when you want to share a document, it has everything, such as the name of the organization, SharePoint, etc. A short URL will be easier to use, and it will just make life easier, especially because a lot of people are now going mobile. I'm not sure if there's a mobile version of Microsoft OneDrive, similar to Google Drive. If they don't have a mobile app, it would also be nice to have a mobile app because that would help in checking out your documents. It would be easy to check your documents on the go on your phone."

"OneDrive is a bit behind competing products like Dropbox and Box."

"Support has not been the same since the beginning of COVID lockdowns."

More Microsoft OneDrive for Business cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Reach out to local IBM partners."

"Talking about the cost is difficult because IBM has offers that combine different products, and each of these offers has different types of licensing. IBM also has a policy that the actual price for a given customer may be very different from the stated book price. It's hard to say whether it's expensive or not."

"It is still a leading ECM solution provider, however the cost to implement and maintain are higher than other solutions."

"The solution saves time and money. It helps us to be able to accomplish the goals of our business, as opposed to being tangled in the weeds of what we could do."

"We use extraction. Therefore, we can see 80 to 85 percent accuracy on data extraction. This reduces the manual indexing part, which is definitely a gain on performance efficiency."

"The platform is inexpensive."

"The biggest issue is the cost of the FileNet, because the license cost is very high. If a customer doesn't have good technical guides that are aware of the license calculation, they will pay too much. FileNet's license calculation depends on the processor and number of users. So my advice to a new customer is to be very careful with your calculations before purchasing FileNet."

"The cost is about $40,000, plus yearly maintenance."

"1. It will be more expensive than estimated to setup. 2. You will need to double the staff while you are running the old system and installing the new system. 3. Depending on the number of documents to be migrated, make sure you understand the potentially massive amount of time and effort required to migrate the existing content to the new platform."

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"The price of Microsoft OneDrive is reasonable and compatible with competitors."

"OneDrive comes with Microsoft 365 so it is just an added part of that package."

"We pay a lot for the Enterprise version, but it is a premium service."

"The licensing is expensive and on a yearly basis."

"Costwise, it is a great option. In most cases, it is a free space, which will be more than enough for most customers."

"This is a pricy solution, given that we are only using it at 50% capacity."

"Using this software, it has had an amazing impact moneywise on our business. It allows us to share documents without the need of extra hardware."

"It is free if you are using Office 365, and you get a terabyte of storage with your account."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

Government

Marketing Services Firm

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Large Enterprise	16

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	74

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM ECM?

The tool is a very stable solution with high availability and no information leakage. It has built-in API integration...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM ECM?

The product is expensive and has a perpetual license.

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What needs improvement with IBM ECM?

The new version of IBM ECM is at the end of support, and we need to migrate to a new version to get open support. We ...

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What do you like most about IBM FileNet?

The product is robust and can process a lot of documents for enterprise content management.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM FileNet?

The pricing and licensing of IBM FileNet is high. We are living in a world where the minimal license from IBM costs a...

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What needs improvement with IBM FileNet?

I believe IBM FileNet could be improved or enhanced in the future, specifically the user interface development suppor...

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What needs improvement with Microsoft OneDrive?

I don't have any problems with Microsoft online products such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint or with Microsoft OneDri...

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft OneDrive?

In this company, we use Microsoft OneDrive for Business for around one year. The use is for storing files automatical...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft OneDrive?

I don't know the pricing for Microsoft OneDrive as I am just an end user. In my company, another person manages this,...

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Compared 4% of the time

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Overview

IBM Content Foundation on Cloud

IBM Content Foundation on Cloud allows organizations to deliver extensive enterprise content management capabilities to their users very quickly. IBM Content Foundation is powered by the FileNet content and process platform and IBM Content Navigator user experience. This cloud offering can be leveraged for a variety of use cases including collaborative document management, imaging solutions, social content management, archiving, and more. It also offers a platform for developing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions in the cloud.

IBM Case Manager on Cloud

IBM Case Manager on Cloud is a solution platform that engages people with business content, provides contextual insight through real-time analytics, and enhances teamwork through collaboration tools and flexible workflow. Enables Business and IT to work together to create solutions across the enterprise that enables an organization to make smarter decisions for better business outcomes, while balancing the need for security and compliance in a world of heightened risk.

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IBM FileNet is a leading IBM enterprise content management product family. IBM FileNet is one of the ECM solutions that can change the way a company does business by enabling users to capture, activate, socialize, analyze, and govern content throughout its lifecycle.

There are many IBM FileNet products available, all of which are integrated and based on the FileNet P8 Platform.

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Microsoft OneDrive for Business integrates with Microsoft applications, offering cloud editing, automatic saves, and extensive collaboration tools. It provides substantial storage, allowing users to sync folders, manage version history, and access files globally.

A cloud-based storage service, Microsoft OneDrive for Business enhances productivity through seamless Microsoft applications integration. It enables users to edit documents online, sync specific folders, and maintain extensive version histories. The platform supports file sharing and collaboration with substantial storage capabilities, ensuring data accessibility from anywhere. Its user-friendly interface allows for easy file organization and sharing while prioritizing security through advanced features. Though it excels in connectivity, bandwidth usage and file syncing issues sometimes occur, especially with large files. Room for improvement includes more intuitive interfaces, enhanced multimedia handling, and strengthened customer support during transitions.

What are the important features of Microsoft OneDrive for Business?

Seamless Integration: Works effortlessly with Microsoft applications for productivity.
Automatic Saves: Ensures ongoing work is saved without user intervention.
Extensive Cloud Editing: Provides tools for online document editing and collaboration.
Folder Syncing: Allows selective folder synchronization across devices.
Version History: Maintains records of document edits over time.
Global Access: Facilitates access to files from any location.
Security Features: Implements robust measures to protect user data.
Sharing Capabilities: Offers options for file and folder sharing with permissions.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Increased Collaboration: Enhances team productivity with shared folders and access.
Cloud Storage Efficiency: Reduces reliance on physical storage devices.
Data Accessibility: Ensures files are accessible across multiple devices.
Security and Backup: Provides secure storage and backup for critical documents.

Businesses across industries deploy Microsoft OneDrive for Business for secure file sharing and team collaboration. With the ability to store and access documents across devices, the platform supports efficient data management and backup solutions. Companies often integrate it with SharePoint for additional storage and project management flexibility.

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Sample Customers

KeyBank, Standard Chartered Bank, Union Bank, Sistema Tecnol‹gico de Monterrey, Illinois Department of Human Services, UnitedHealth Group

Suncorp Group Limited, St. Vincent Health, Citigroup, SRCSD, and UK Dept for Work and Pensions.

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