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IBM FileNet vs OpenText Documentum comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

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

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
OpenText Documentum
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
31
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 OpenText Documentum is 12.5%, up from 10.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Emad Rizki - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Sunil Mudambi - PeerSpot reviewer
Saves time and increases an organization's productivity
It's a great enterprise content management product. Our customers love the product for its stability and scalability. Search is the most useful feature of the solution. The way we retrieve documents is more important than how we store them. There's no use if we can't find a document. It's the most critical feature. My organization works with other customers. We are consultants for OpenText. Our customers have seen a lot of benefits in terms of regulatory compliance. Industries like banking are highly regulated. The product captures the information centrally so everybody in the bank can see the right information at the right time. It is tamper-proof and enables us to return to the document source, which is helpful with legal issues.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a user-friendly system and easy to manage for anyone with basic knowledge."
"It has an excellent document storage repository, which is good at what it does."
"Provides records management functions."
"We have made our service routes more efficient, as far as moving work through the system and being able to react to customer situations and needs better by improving things, such as, address and beneficiary changes. I know that we have definitely made improvements in the process."
"There is a high degree of usability with this solution. It is highly compatible with our clients' and customers' work environments, making it easy to deploy and implement."
"The most valuable features of FileNet are its comprehensive ability to store content, to get insights from the content, and to use that content for making decisions routed through workflow."
"The main features we find impactful are the workflow and document management along with FileNet file stores."
"It has a very broad market share and a lot of people know about it."
"It stands out for its impressive records management capabilities and the ability to handle an extensive volume of documents, even reaching into the billions."
"It has the ability to categorize and search."
"The most valuable feature is that the documents are kept secure."
"The most valuable feature is the good automation engine, which helps in reducing the development cost and allows easy development of applications."
"OpenText Documentum has improved availability and performance in our organization."
"The most impactful thing is the size, which is almost 25 TB."
"The stability is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Documentum for our content management needs is its ability to segregate access based on department and role."
 

Cons

"The product is expensive."
"Programmers have to translate user needs into IBM FileNet, which causes misinterpretations."
"IBM doesn't offer new technologies every year, they offer new technologies after five years, for each release of the product."
"The response time and resolution of issues by technical support need improvement."
"I'd like to see more cognitive. That's obviously where all of our world is going. I think if we can have more of those types of features and functions as a core, out of the box, that would be very helpful for us and our space."
"Our client feels FileNet does not provide them with content searchability. They feel it's cumbersome. They're only using Metadata. If the Metadata is not well-populated, it becomes a problem to retrieve a document."
"We'd like to use the docker, to have it containerized."
"​I would like to see the dashboard be a little bit more robust and a little more user-friendly"
"We mostly use the Life Sciences package. That package is somewhat dated. There should be enhancements to the Life Science package and additional offerings to support pharma in particular."
"The user interface can be improved."
"It's difficult to manage and customize Documentum."
"The BPM side should be improved."
"One area for improvement in OpenText Documentum is its handling of outdated documents, especially technical ones."
"Sometimes DocBroker cannot see the DocBase."
"I would like to see performance improvements, especially regarding slow response times."
"It can be somewhat cumbersome for the operations team since it’s not a cloud instance"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is still a leading ECM solution provider, however the cost to implement and maintain are higher than other solutions."
"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."
"The licensing cost of FileNet is comparable."
"FileNet is quite expensive, although Documentum is expensive too."
"Yearly, we pay for the maintenance, which is $20,000."
"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."
"It has reduced operating costs by reducing the amount of manual work needed."
"IBM FileNet is an expensive solution."
"The product is expensive."
"OpenText Documentum's pricing is good."
"The price is considered affordable now."
"It is quite an expensive product."
"OpenText Documentum has announced a new licensing model, which could be more expensive."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
10%
Insurance Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Government
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM FileNet?
The product has become more expensive and requires significant investment for enterprise solutions.
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.
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 price is quite high as the licensing prices are significant.
 

Also Known As

No data available
Dell EMC Documentum, Documentum , Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Suncorp Group Limited, St. Vincent Health, Citigroup, SRCSD, and UK Dept for Work and Pensions.
Agility; Bibliotheca Alexandrina; Capitec Bank; Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa; County of Los Angeles, Department of Human Resources; Fresenius Kabi; Heathrow Airport; Lahey Health; Linde PLC; Milestone Pharma Co. Ltd; National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; Open Grid Europe GmbH; REPCO NEX Industrial Solutions; Springer Nature; Syngene International; Tata Power DDL; University of Texas Austin
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