IBM FileNet vs Nuxeo comparison

IBM and Hyland are both solutions in the Enterprise Content Management category. IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.9, while Hyland is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0. IBM holds a 8.2% mindshare in ECM, compared to Hyland’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Hyland users who would recommend it.

IBM FileNet

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91% willing to recommend

Nuxeo

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM FileNet and Nuxeo based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Content Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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IBM FileNet vs. Nuxeo

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Categories and Ranking

IBM FileNet

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

103

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Nuxeo

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Digital Asset Management (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of IBM FileNet is 8.2%, down from 10.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nuxeo is 3.3%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Content Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM FileNet	8.2%
Nuxeo	3.3%
Other	88.5%

Enterprise Content Management

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ARTHUR BRUNO

Consultor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Has provided robust content management but requires simplification in configuration and usability

We almost do not utilize the automation capabilities of IBM FileNet to streamline our business processes. The process automation and business automation features are barely used. Currently, we primarily use it to store content. We are now trying to use all of the functionalities of IBM FileNet, but we have not yet utilized the full capacity of the system. We are trying to reduce redundancy with IBM FileNet by enhancing our business rules. However, we still have significant redundancy. IBM FileNet can help us reduce redundancy, but we need to understand the tool and use all the functionalities to accomplish this. Ease of use with IBM FileNet is a disadvantage of this tool. It is complex and hard to use. When we try to set up IBM FileNet, we have many questions. We do not understand what we need to do in IBM FileNet. There are many configurations we must make but do not know how to implement. While IBM FileNet is very reliable, it is very difficult to set up. When reading the documentation about IBM FileNet, it appears to be very reliable and secure, but setting up configurations, access rules, authorization, and authentication seems to be very challenging.

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reviewer2650419

Customer Success Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Powerful data model building enables comprehensive document management for government sectors

The learning curve in Nuxeo is not easy, and it requires additional time. It's challenging to onboard new users or new developers. The resources on Hyland are good but lack exercises and use cases to apply by oneself during learning. There is not much practice to apply that knowledge directly on Nuxeo and get further details into the platform.

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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 ability to manage the content well."

"It saves our customers time by 30 to 40 percent by eliminating the time to process paper."

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

"It has increased our productivity."

"Centralized our business documents."

"The most useful feature is its persistent storage. Also, the full-text search and attribute searching are valuable."

"FileNet is highly scalable and suited for implementation in large multinational organizations."

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"Nuxeo is very powerful in terms of building up the data model and the context model."

Cons

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

"I would like to see expanded search features, like content search."

"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."

"It is ability to display legacy content needs improvement."

"Programmers have to translate user needs into IBM FileNet, which causes misinterpretations."

"There is no room for improvement in the current version of FileNet, and I have not identified any potential new features or existing problems that require attention."

"The response time and resolution of issues by technical support need improvement."

"I think some of the technical pieces, when implementing it ourselves, were something of a roadblock until we discovered the Concierge. Those are some things they have to work on."

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"The learning curve in Nuxeo is not easy, and it requires additional time. It's challenging to onboard new users or new developers."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For small scale industries, they allow different options. They can do open source. It is the complexity of the data security that they should think about before they choose."

"There are lots of components to the product. Make sure before you invest that you know which components you need."

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

"FileNet is not cheap, but you absolutely get what you pay for. "

"For the medium scale or large scale, I would recommend FileNet. FileNet is free of licensing expenses, thus good for the money. It is not expensive, but worth for the money, especially for medium scale and large scale industries."

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

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

"Licensing costs depend on the size of the storage."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

Government

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	31
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	74

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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?

From the company's perspective, the licensing cost for IBM FileNet is still affordable. Though the license cost is somewhat expensive, it remains manageable. The company rates it between 3 and 5 be...

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What needs improvement with IBM FileNet?

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What needs improvement with Nuxeo?

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What is your primary use case for Nuxeo?

We are mainly using Nuxeo for the government sector, and we are providing document management for those government sectors and universities. So, the main use cases are for government and universities.

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What advice do you have for others considering Nuxeo?

The overall rating for Nuxeo is eight out of ten. My advice would be to consider sector and customer requirements carefully when choosing a platform.

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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

Nuxeo, now part of Hyland, makes it easy to build smart content applications that enhance customer experiences, improve decision making, and accelerate products to market. Common use cases for the Nuxeo Platform include digital asset management (DAM), enterprise content management (ECM), product asset management (PAM), document management, case management, and knowledge management. The Nuxeo Platform has been architected to take full advantage of the cloud and uses a modular architecture to deliver elastic scalability and performance. The platform provides critical content management capabilities with advanced functionality in search, collaboration, workflow, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), renditions, a configurable user interface, and the industry's most advanced metadata modeling. Leading organizations use Nuxeo to modernize their information management systems or accelerate ideas to market by connecting data and digital assets.

Hyland

Sample Customers

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

Electronic Arts, Jeppesen, U.S. Navy, Orange, GSD&M, Sirona Dental, Skyscanner, Verizon, Unizin, Enernoc, NHS

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September 2025

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