IBM FileNet vs Oracle WebCenter comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Enterprise Content Management category. IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #17. IBM holds a 10.0% mindshare in ECM, compared to Oracle’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 70% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

IBM FileNet

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91% willing to recommend

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70% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Oracle WebCenter and IBM FileNet are both positioned within the enterprise content management sector, enhancing collaboration and automating business processes. Oracle WebCenter has an advantage in integration with Oracle's ecosystem, while IBM FileNet is often better for document management due to its robust capabilities.

Features: Oracle WebCenter offers strong analytics functions and seamless integration with other Oracle products, making it a top choice for those invested in Oracle's ecosystem. Additionally, WebCenter is known for its intuitive interface and content management capabilities. IBM FileNet stands out with comprehensive content lifecycle management, exceptional scalability, and powerful imaging capabilities, making it ideal for large, document-intensive environments.

Room for Improvement: Oracle WebCenter could improve its integration capabilities with non-Oracle products, expand customization options, and enhance support for mobile platforms to increase flexibility. IBM FileNet may benefit from streamlining its deployment process, improving user interface customization, and increasing the ease of integration with non-IBM products to better facilitate collaborative workflows.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle WebCenter provides a straightforward deployment process, especially for those within the Oracle ecosystem, and is backed by robust Oracle support. In contrast, IBM FileNet’s deployment can be more complex, yet it offers dedicated and comprehensive enterprise-level support, which can be beneficial for companies with large-scale implementations.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle WebCenter typically involves lower initial setup costs, appealing to businesses seeking quick and economical integration if they are already utilizing Oracle services. Although IBM FileNet has higher upfront costs, it offers significant ROI through its scalability and extensive document management features in industries with substantial document handling requirements.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM FileNet

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle WebCenter

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

17th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Customer Experience Management (29th), Web Content Management (11th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of IBM FileNet is 10.0%, up from 10.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle WebCenter is 2.0%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Mehdi Hasankhan

Head of Development and Implementation at Arak Petrochemical Company

Gives me easy access, connection and compatibility with all of the Oracle products

WebCenter content access has a lot of options and flexibility. At this time, I only see one problem: in the sub-content and channels surrounding Windows 10. It only functions with Windows 7 and Windows 8. All of the operating systems in my company are up-to-date and we are using Windows 10. For whatever reason, you can't use the Oracle content on these platforms at all. This lapse is very bad for my company because I can't change the version of Word and downgrade. Maybe it is just a technical problem. But it is a lot of my problem with this solution currently.

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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

"There aren't very many ECM solutions that scale properly, both up and out. We have customers who hold billions of documents. There aren't very many that can scale that far, and that can also scale out so that they can handle lots of users, lots of documents, and that understand how to handle external users. FileNet is one that can."

"FileNet is very user-friendly... We have business users using and it is quite friendly for them."

"IBM FileNet supports our document management and compliance processes."

"It allows for multiple people to access content simultaneously."

"It improves the time when providing customer service to our constituents."

"It puts governance in place around the content and processes. Access levels can be set to certain parts of the document based on role level."

"I would say the workflow is pretty good. Also, the flexibility of being able to create custom objects with a lot of domain-specific attributes that we follow."

"If we run into problems, which is inevitable (and we run into problems all the time), we get quick responses and good solutions back from the technical support."

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"A great solution for storing and searching large volumes of documents with easy access."

"Oracle integrates well with other products to cover Big Data."

"Integration within the solution is very good."

"It's a very scalable solution and the performance is pretty good. The scalability, in my opinion, is the biggest advantage."

"You can move workloads in between sub-servers so that you don't overload a portion of the server."

"WebCenter's interface is very user-friendly."

"The WebCenter Content is its most valuable feature. After we update a document in WebCenter Content, it can be update automatically in our intranet."

Cons

"The new user interface is not easy to set up, so some improvements along these lines would be good."

"There is room for improvement in the file management. It's very complex."

"The product is expensive."

"In terms of functionality, what customers might be looking for is a little more in terms of native-records retention. Records Management is an add-on product. If there were just a little more of that built into the core functionality, that would be helpful."

"During the initial setup, all the details and different technical things that we were trying to figure out became complex."

"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."

"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."

"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."

More IBM FileNet cons

"Does not seem to be totally compatible with Windows 10 as of our current version."

"There are many document management systems that offer pretty much the same functionalities but at a lower price. The product as such is pretty good. However, the pricing is not comparable. They need to adjust their pricing to be more competitive on the market."

"The solution should be offered in Persian. Right now, our version is in English, and there's a bit of a language barrier between the users and the product."

"Its functions need more stability."

"I would like them to add more Web 2.0 features."

"WebCenter requires a lot of design effort to upload content to our regular system."

"This solution needs to support translation into the Arabic language."

"The speed of the backup should be enhanced."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has reduced operating costs by reducing the amount of manual work needed."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

More IBM FileNet pricing and cost advice

"WebCenter's pricing is on the higher side."

"The price of this solution is considered to be high; however, when speaking with Oracle, it is possible to get discounts of up to sixty percent."

"The price needs to be lowered."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

10%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

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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.

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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?

The API provided by IBM FileNet is a very out-of-date implementation. From the beginning, we cannot use a REST API; we have to use the IBM FileNet native API, which is quite outdated.

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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

Oracle WebCenter is the center of engagement for business powering exceptional experiences for customers, partners, and employees. It connects people, processes, and information with the most complete portfolio of portal, content management, Web experience management, and collaboration technologies.

Oracle

Sample Customers

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

Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society, Jagran Prakashan Ltd., Standard Forwarding LLC, United Automotive Electronic Systems Co. Ltd., INSO sistemi per le infrastrutture sociali S.p.A., Helsana Versicherungen AG, ArRiyadh Development Authority, John Lewis Partnership, Arqiva, SURUGADAI EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE, Portuguese Official Agriculture and Fisheries

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