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."It has reduced the amount of paper documents; reducing time and errors in the process."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a central repository for everything, whether it's videos, documents, Excel sheets, etc."
"Two things are excellent in Documentum. One is business process management. The other is its support for metadata."
"It is quite good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the security, storage, and document search capability."
"Documentum is a highly scalable document management solution because it's built on a solid platform."
"We like Documentum for its capacity and reliability."
"OpenText Documentum's composition is good. It is convenient and straight out of the box."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"It has an easy to distribute administration capability, and can also scale to meet a large number of future needs."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"Sometimes DocBroker cannot see the DocBase."
"They should develop something so that bugs don't happen in our project. We make changes manually and some bugs happen."
"In BPM could be better. Its GUI needs the ability to build more rules. This is a crucial feature. For example, OpenText has some products that allow you to control your checks, invoices, and so on. They have exciting approaches to converting pictures to text, but the tool for business process management isn't easy to use. The GIU is not so good."
"OpenText Documentum is moving to the cloud, and I am concerned about the security aspect of it."
"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."
"It needs a better UI and it should also be cloud-ready. The UI has not changed in years."
"It should provide more tools to help clients upgrade solutions based on Webtop."
"It's difficult to manage and customize Documentum."
"The solution lacks collaboration features."
"The product must provide more automation."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"Integration needs to be more straightforward, particularly with Azure. SharePoint also needs a more comprehensive introductory course for users."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"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."
OpenText Documentum is ranked 2nd 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, WordPress and IBM FileNet. See our OpenText Documentum vs. SharePoint report.
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