IBM FileNet vs Mobius Content Services Platform comparison

IBM and Rocket Software are both solutions in the Enterprise Content Management category. IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while Rocket Software is ranked #15 with an average rating of 4.0. IBM holds a 10.2% mindshare in ECM, compared to Rocket Software’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Rocket Software users who would recommend it.

IBM FileNet

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91% willing to recommend

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50% willing to recommend

IBM FileNet

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Mobius Content Services Platform and IBM FileNet are competing in the enterprise content management category. IBM FileNet seems to have the upper hand with its extensive feature set and advanced capabilities, overshadowing concerns about its pricing.

Features: Mobius Content Services Platform includes flexible content management, integration capabilities, and robust compliance and archival features. IBM FileNet provides advanced automation, document management, and powerful analytics and scalability options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Mobius Content Services Platform offers a straightforward deployment process with strong integration support. IBM FileNet's deployment is more complex but is supported by comprehensive documentation and professional services.

Pricing and ROI: Mobius Content Services Platform offers competitive initial pricing, appealing to budget-conscious buyers. IBM FileNet justifies its higher costs with greater long-term ROI through advanced functionalities and efficiencies.

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IBM FileNet vs. Mobius Content Services Platform

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Categories and Ranking

IBM FileNet

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

101

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mobius Content Services Pla...

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

15th

Average Rating

6.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of IBM FileNet is 10.2%, up from 9.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Mobius Content Services Platform is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Content Management

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Emad Rizki

System integrator at Indépendant

Facilitates seamless integration for large enterprises with strong deployment capabilities

FileNet was scalable and could be implemented into big multinational organizations. However, it has become very expensive recently. Compared to low-code solutions such as Appian and outsystems, FileNet has gaps, mainly because it requires coding, which is not preferred by clients due to pricing concerns in Pakistan. We transitioned clients to cloud solutions, although FileNet has been strongly integrated with on-prem deployments.

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reviewer2597169

Manager, CNIB Smartlife Western Canada at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

Improving data accessibility and security through enhanced interface design

In my current role, we use Mobius to capture data. We are partnered with the government, and the Mobius app is used to ensure accurate data capture. We use it alongside Salesforce to document our clients' entire process as they go through programs, capturing details of their work journey Mobius…

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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

"Users are able to create their own content, and they can manage their own sets of tasks, to work at their own pace and get their jobs done."

"The integration feature of IBM FileNet is most effective for document management."

"One of our clients, a customer of IBM, rolled out and replaced their existing ECM system with FileNet. Their productivity has increased pretty dramatically."

"It has increased our productivity."

"The usability is very good. We like the Content Navigator. It's very easy to use the search and retrieve for documents and has a lot of options for the user to download documents or send an email."

"It is really usable. There is a lot of support for it. You have the online components to trawl through the storage. I have a lot of fun with it."

"The natural interpolatability with IBM Datacap, that is a key component of our solution, as well as with BPM, and WebSphere Portal. That's why we prefer FileNet instead of some other, less world-class solution."

"In terms of stability, we haven't experienced any big technical issues or downtime with IBM FileNet, which is a difference compared to smaller products."

More IBM FileNet pros

"This solution has improved our organization by providing a central repository for business data with control over sensitive data."

"Mobius excels in ensuring data security for captured content, which is crucial."

"It provides a single pane of glass for delivering content from multiple repositories. It is also highly recommended because of the ease of use when it comes to searching and retrieving from multiple repositories simultaneously."

Cons

"The most valuable features of IBM File Manager are workflow, content, and process capabilities."

"I would like to have an offline DR deployment. If that is doable, then it would be a big win."

"The initial setup was pretty complex. There are too many options, and it can get a bit confusing."

"We'd like to use the docker, to have it containerized."

"The usability is fair. It could be a bit better. It could be better designed. They could put more effort into the user experience and do a better job of integrating other components, like Datacap, to be a bit more seamless."

"It needs better collaboration between the IBM teams on the FileNet and CCM sides."

"I would like to see in FileNet integrated with Watson, which can read something and send it without any human contact or interaction."

"We know that they're looking at documents, but we don't know what documents they're actually going and finding the most, or where the bottlenecks might be. It would be nice if there was some interconnectivity back into Bluemix to say, "Ok, you've got a workflow problem here." That would be a neat feature moving forward because we've got a lot of users that would just say, "The system is not working." We had a few threads would get hung up because they were just constantly banging on these few documents. If that were the case, if we knew that ahead of time, then we could fix that, change the search sequences to make it more efficient. But we were blind to that until the users said it's not working."

More IBM FileNet cons

"The primary area for improvement is the platform's accessibility."

"The setup and the support could be improved when it comes to populating the reports from a mainframe environment."

"If it were up to me, I wouldn't use Mobius due to its lack of accessibility and outdated interface."

"Sales and service need to be more consistent."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"FileNet is quite expensive, although Documentum is expensive too."

"My customers have seen ROI. There have been productivity gains, time savings gains, and things that they have been doing much more efficiently in a more modern way than they were before."

"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."

"Yearly, we pay for the maintenance, which is $20,000."

"The tool is expensive, and I rate its pricing a ten out of ten."

"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."

"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."

"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."

More IBM FileNet pricing and cost advice

"The pricing and licensing are commensurate with other solutions in the market that handle a distributed system environment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

10%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

21%

Insurance Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

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Small Business

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Questions from the Community

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 product has become more expensive and requires significant investment for enterprise solutions.

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What needs improvement with IBM FileNet?

FileNet needs improvement in pricing as it has become very expensive. Also, in comparison to local solutions, the need for coding is a disadvantage.

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Which of the ECM products compares the best to ASG Mobius Document direct?

There are several systems that are capable of providing security at a document level, with encryption a rest, and a robust API. But as far as granularity goes, I don't see much else being able to a...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Mobius Content Services Platform?

We don't incur direct costs as the government pays for Mobius, and we use Salesforce for data capturing ourselves.

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What needs improvement with Mobius Content Services Platform?

The primary area for improvement is the platform's accessibility. Enhancing the user interface by simplifying it, improving color contrast, and adhering to proper coding standards for assistive tec...

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Also Known As

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ASG Mobius, ASG ViewDirect

Overview

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.

IBM

Mobius is an intelligent information management solution that delivers
content services with a granular policy management foundation to manage the
life cycle of enterprise content and data in accordance with corporate policies,
industry regulations and government mandates at web-scale speeds with accuracy and reliability.

Rocket Software

Sample Customers

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

Liberty Mutual

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