We performed a comparison between OpenText Documentum and SharePoint 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."The most valuable feature is the management."
"The most valuable feature is that the documents are kept secure."
"The tool's most valuable feature is ACL, which helps to control the user groups that access the documents."
"The storage of metadata content, workflows, and life cycles are the most valuable features of OpenText Documentum."
"We primarily use it for storing documents. We host a variety of documents in OpenText Documentum. This includes raw files, analyzed files, and documents in multiple formats."
"OpenText Documentum has improved availability and performance in our organization."
"The most valuable feature of Documentum for our content management needs is its ability to segregate access based on department and role."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the security, storage, and document search capability."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"The search feature is valuable."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"The product needs to improve the way documents are logged together. I believe running it on the cloud or containerization will bring value to it. The tool's Time to Market and deployment cycle need to be improved. Finding suitable training materials for OpenText Documentum is also a bottleneck. If we can find the training modules easily, we can bring together people, give them quick training, and start working on the deployment. It can help with quick outputs."
"Sometimes DocBroker cannot see the DocBase."
"One area for improvement in OpenText Documentum is its handling of outdated documents, especially technical ones."
"OpenText Documentum is moving to the cloud, and I am concerned about the security aspect of it."
"The user interface can be a bit more intuitive."
"They should develop something so that bugs don't happen in our project. We make changes manually and some bugs happen."
"The main issue is the software's performance when storing around 10 million or more documents. It becomes slow and needs improvement. Perhaps it's a cloud-related issue, but it needs to be addressed. It could be due to our S3 bucket or something else. Nevertheless, this is a significant challenge we're facing."
"The user interface can be improved."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"Replication needs improvement."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
OpenText Documentum is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Content Management with 26 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. OpenText Documentum is rated 7.8, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText Documentum writes "Saves time and increases an organization's productivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". OpenText Documentum is most compared with OpenText Extended ECM, IBM FileNet, Hyland OnBase, Alfresco and OpenText Content Manager, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and IBM FileNet. See our OpenText Documentum vs. SharePoint report.
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