We performed a comparison between OpenText Extended ECM 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."We can configure the solution with any industry's products per customer requirements."
"The tool's most valuable features are document storage, security, and compliance."
"An SAP user can store documents directly into OpenText without a connector."
"It's a very good solution."
"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."
"WebReports has a lot of capabilities that offer good opportunities to customize the applications the way we want to."
"Scalability is great. We can extend areas horizontally and vertically."
"OpenText Extended ECM's most valuable features include permissions and security models. I also like the tool's ability to add metadata and use it to categorize information."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"It's stable. It's very widely used by companies. Also, the knowledge of the product has improved over the years, and by other companies that support it or are Microsoft SharePoint partners. So if there are problems, there's always a user or company that knows the information or can help you; even with very uncommon problems."
"Information is much more readily available."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is file sharing or information sharing."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"User interface needs improvement (at least in the version we are using, desktop client)."
"Pricing could be improved and the stability or the performance needs improvement, which is very important."
"The initial setup can get really complicated, and it takes time."
"OpenText Extended ECM's user interface could be improved."
"Initially there can be stability issues due to unknown factors such as usage of the system, quantity of documents ingested, load during peak hours."
"The architecture needs improvement, as it's complex."
"We are looking for new, advanced UI features. Currently, the UI does not look great."
"The solution's performance, stability, and consistency could be improved."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"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."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"The solution lacks collaboration features."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
OpenText Extended ECM is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Content Management with 18 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 150 reviews. OpenText Extended ECM is rated 7.8, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText Extended ECM writes "Serves as a single source of support for the company but has scalability issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". OpenText Extended ECM is most compared with OpenText Documentum, IBM FileNet, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Content Manager and Alfresco, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and Alfresco. See our OpenText Extended ECM vs. SharePoint report.
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