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Jive vs OpenText Content Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 19, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Jive
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
35th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (39th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (7th), Enterprise Social Software (11th), Knowledge Management Software (24th), Enterprise Intranet (11th)
OpenText Content Management
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of Jive is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Content Management is 10.1%, down from 10.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Content Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
OpenText Content Management10.1%
Jive0.3%
Other89.6%
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

PatrickCiPaaS - PeerSpot reviewer
Works well to collaborate with creating documents or media for a specific goal.
The platform works well to collaborate with creating documents or media for a specific goal. It was more fun to create a community in Jive than to use shared spreadsheets in Dropbox or Google docs. Create a better way of adding users in bulk by email address.
Jaideep MS - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables effective document control yet requires better affordability and clarity
I use extended ECM for procurement, sales, engineering documents, and sometimes invoices and accounts payable or receivable The version controls and the business workspace part integrate well with SAP and OpenText, providing granular level control over who accesses the workspace. The seamless…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
"Being able to tag metadata on documents and being able to have different workspaces in there for our documents is valuable. We do loan documents, and different types of documents have different types of retentions. We are able to categorize based on that, and we are able to do tag searching to find what we are looking for."
"The tool's most valuable features are document storage, security, and compliance."
"We use Core Share to share documents with external auditors or with vendors, and that prevents them from being able to get into the whole system. It is useful."
"Smart Viewing videos are most valuable for the end users. The end users like the look and feel of Smart View. It's similar to SharePoint, with the latest HTML5 features, filters, and everything. It's like online shopping."
"We can configure the solution with any industry's products per customer requirements."
"Most of our customers are very fond of the upgraded smart user interface."
"Scalability is great. We can extend areas horizontally and vertically."
"The integration of a document management platform with many other applications, e.g. SAP, SuccessFactors, Salesforce, SharePoint, etc."
 

Cons

"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"A dashboard with information would be nice to see."
"We are looking for new, advanced UI features. Currently, the UI does not look great."
"I have not used it enough to start running into issues. Some of my technical guys could name a couple of things, but in terms of support, we did have challenges getting good responses from them."
"OpenText Extended ECM's user interface could be improved."
"There are no additional features that I would like to see. I am pretty happy with it, but their support could be a bit better."
"The tool's documentation is not proper and has missing information like steps."
"The solution's performance, stability, and consistency could be improved."
"Pricing could be improved and the stability or the performance needs improvement, which is very important."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The tool's pricing is confusing to the end customer."
"The solution is expensive."
"OpenText Extended ECM is an expensive solution."
"The pricing is costly. It's costly to integrate with Office 365 and to go back and forth with the sales team."
"Both Open Text ECM and IBM File share are expensive."
"It is a little more expensive than our previous solution, but because of the fact that it has become a rallying point for different groups to come under, it might end up paying off better in the long run by not having seven siloed solutions. Even though this one solution is a little pricey, it might eliminate other ones."
"OpenText Extended ECM's pricing and licensing are aggressive and confusing for the end customer."
"The total cost of the product will vary on the capabilities required"
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Government
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about OpenText Content Suite Platform?
We also have a module on top of the Content Server called WebReports that has been one of the things that helped us facilitate the workflow and give managers good reporting and visibility into wher...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenText Content Suite Platform?
The cost is a significant factor that may deter medium-sized businesses from using OpenText extended ECM.
What needs improvement with OpenText Content Suite Platform?
The cost of the product could be improved. Currently, there are certain snags in document viewing, and communication from the pre-sales team is not clear. The expectation from the customer versus t...
 

Also Known As

Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
OpenText Content Suite Platform, OpenText Core Share
 

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Sample Customers

Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
ATCO Australia, MSIG Asia, Orica, Salt River Project
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