We performed a comparison between Dropbox and OpenText Extended ECM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Nasuni, Google and others in Cloud Storage."It is the best solution in terms of space, file sharing, and live editing. I can share and edit files with multiple users."
"It's very easy to use and quite accessible for everybody."
"It is definitely stable. The main advantage of Dropbox is that you can see the files, and you can easily share them with all the team members. They can be accessed by whoever you give access to, and it is all secure. Dropbox is a seamless product. It provides you the privacy that you're looking for. Privacy is a major factor for my company, and Dropbox provides you that."
"A valuable feature is that it's useful for exchanging large files and documents. I'm happy with it."
"I don't need to carry my laptop while traveling. I just synchronize whatever I've been doing to Dropbox. After the document is synchronized, I can leave my laptop and use Dropbox wherever I am. I can also easily share a document with my colleagues, no matter how big it is. I can allow them to edit, and the editing will be instant. I can see whatever changes they've made to the document. It doesn't delete a document automatically. If I make a mistake and delete a file, it doesn't automatically delete the file. It gives you the warning to say you're deleting a file. In terms of security, I haven't had any challenges with Dropbox where they tell you that your data is compromised."
"The various methods for accessing files, such as through mobile apps, online synchronization, and on a PC, are highly valuable."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"I can use the cloud version for storage and easy retrieval."
"It's a very good solution."
"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."
"Smart Viewing videos are most valuable for the end users. The end users like the look and feel of Smart View. It's similar to SharePoint, with the latest HTML5 features, filters, and everything. It's like online shopping."
"We use Core Share to share documents with external auditors or with vendors, and that prevents them from being able to get into the whole system. It is useful."
"Retention is useful. I have been pleased with the search functionality and the extensibility for tying it into integrations with other systems and building workflows on top of it."
"Scalability is great. We can extend areas horizontally and vertically."
"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."
"We also have a module on top of the Content Server called WebReports that has been one of the things that helped us facilitate the workflow and give managers good reporting and visibility into where everything is. Being able to use that on top of the Content Server was a big help."
"I think the product's interface is an area of concern since it has been changed for a long time and can be considered for improvement."
"The mobile aspect of the solution needs improvement. For instance, if I want to use a file from Dropbox on my phone, I sometimes struggle to download images off of Dropbox. The solution lacks accessibility on different devices."
"2 Gb of free space and then a not so cheap subscription (also if the competitors have similar proposals for customers)."
"The search could be made more intuitive."
"While I feel the price being charged to be reasonable, it should either be more cost-effective or account for an increased amount of storage space."
"The solution could be better integrated with other platforms."
"Dropbox needs to increase its storage."
"I cannot edit a document at the same time as another user."
"The solution's performance, stability, and consistency 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."
"We are looking for new, advanced UI features. Currently, the UI does not look great."
"The solution needs to improve the user interface."
"When it comes to addressing complex use cases, three or four years ago, we ended up purchasing an additional OpenText product called AppWorks because we started to run into some limitations with the workflow that can be done in Extended ECM. It was a little limiting, so we ended up getting another product."
"OpenText Extended ECM's user interface could be improved."
"I have not used it enough to start running into issues. Some of my technical guys could name a couple of things, but in terms of support, we did have challenges getting good responses from them."
"The architecture needs improvement, as it's complex."
Dropbox is ranked 4th in Cloud Storage with 83 reviews while OpenText Extended ECM is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Content Management with 18 reviews. Dropbox is rated 8.2, while OpenText Extended ECM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Extended ECM writes "Serves as a single source of support for the company but has scalability issues". Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and Office 365, whereas OpenText Extended ECM is most compared with OpenText Documentum, SharePoint, IBM FileNet, Alfresco and OpenText Content Manager.
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