We performed a comparison between Alfresco and OpenText Documentum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"Document repository."
"OpenText Documentum's composition is good. It is convenient and straight out of the box."
"The most valuable feature is that the documents are kept secure."
"I appreciate Documentum's scalability, allowing for vast volumes of content storage."
"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 of OpenText Documentum is the versioning."
"It has reduced the amount of paper documents; reducing time and errors in the process."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the security, storage, and document search capability."
"The tool's most valuable feature is ACL, which helps to control the user groups that access the documents."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"The documentation often leaves customers feeling somewhat frustrated, as OpenText seems to expect customers to remind them constantly about the need for better documentation, as they don't provide clear guidance on their documentation practices."
"It should provide more tools to help clients upgrade solutions based on Webtop."
"The user interface can be improved."
"OpenText Documentum needs to improve its support."
"It's difficult to manage and customize Documentum."
"OpenText Documentum's user interface could be improved a little bit."
"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"One area for improvement in OpenText Documentum is its handling of outdated documents, especially technical ones."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while OpenText Documentum is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Content Management with 26 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while OpenText Documentum is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Documentum writes "Saves time and increases an organization's productivity". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, IBM FileNet, OpenText Extended ECM and Nuxeo, whereas OpenText Documentum is most compared with OpenText Extended ECM, SharePoint, IBM FileNet, Hyland OnBase and OpenText Content Manager.
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