We performed a comparison between IBM ECM and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."The tool is a very stable solution with high availability and no information leakage. It has built-in API integration on-site. You can integrate with other components and applications like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, etc."
"The content management is all about you as you can make the same content for minimal purpose solutions applications."
"The vertical scalability, as we can use it across some of our applications."
"The scalability is a valuable feature, that we're able to display our documents to so many people."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"The security feature is valuable."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"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."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"I would like to see seamless application integration."
"I would recommend not going with ECM 8 and going with FileNet instead. It seems like that is the future of the lower-volume repository. It seems like they are moving away from ECM 8.5 so I think we're going to have some challenges coming up, getting off of that technology."
"The development platform is not local. For example, you need 100 days in IBM, whereas other platforms, like ServiceNow, need only 20 days."
"I think it's already getting away from Java applets. A lot of our users struggle with keeping up to date with Java versioning, so a lot of the functions they're doing, like printing, emailing, and even some of the viewing, they're struggling with."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"Make it more intuitive."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"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."
IBM ECM is ranked 13th in Enterprise Content Management with 16 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. IBM ECM is rated 8.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM ECM writes "Datacap provides granularity and any level of customization. Solution development and delivery time needs to be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". IBM ECM is most compared with IBM FileNet, Mobius Content Services Platform, OpenText Documentum, SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management and Alfresco, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress.
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