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 that it's a central repository for everything, whether it's videos, documents, Excel sheets, etc."
"The most valuable feature is the management."
"It is a very secure system. It is reliable, and that is one of the reasons people manage their content within Documentum. It gives them the confidence that the content is accessible to the right people and not to the wrong people."
"The storage of metadata content, workflows, and life cycles are the most valuable features of OpenText Documentum."
"OpenText Documentum's composition is good. It is convenient and straight out of the box."
"The most valuable feature of OpenText Documentum is the versioning."
"I appreciate Documentum's scalability, allowing for vast volumes of content storage."
"The stability is very good."
"The search feature is valuable."
"SharePoint is easy to collaborate with."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"The most valuable feature of SharePoint is its ease of use."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"The user interface can be a bit more intuitive."
"OpenText Documentum has a lot of scope for improvement in terms of adding some AI integrations."
"It's difficult to manage and customize Documentum."
"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."
"They should develop something so that bugs don't happen in our project. We make changes manually and some bugs happen."
"Documentum is a very robust system. Everything can be improved, but at this time, I do not have anything in particular. If anything, they can put our software in their standard."
"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."
"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."
"One issue is that when users mistakenly hide files or set permissions incorrectly, it can lead to files becoming inaccessible, requiring intervention from Microsoft support to resolve."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve."
OpenText Documentum is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Content Management with 26 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 150 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, WordPress and IBM FileNet. See our OpenText Documentum vs. SharePoint report.
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