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."WebReports has a lot of capabilities that offer good opportunities to customize the applications the way we want to."
"An SAP user can store documents directly into OpenText without a connector."
"Being able to search is valuable. Its search is pretty powerful. We are able to search for specific text, and it points us to the document that has that text. That is pretty powerful."
"Simplicity to roll out, features available, customization options."
"The ability to add metadata and use that to categorize information is a valuable feature of OpenText Extended ECM."
"The integration of a document management platform with many other applications, e.g. SAP, SuccessFactors, Salesforce, SharePoint, etc."
"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."
"The tool's most valuable features are document storage, security, and compliance."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"It has made us faster and more efficient."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"We are looking for new, advanced UI features. Currently, the UI does not look great."
"The solution should work better with partners and be more developer-friendly."
"The initial setup can get really complicated, and it takes time."
"Pricing could be improved and the stability or the performance needs improvement, which is very important."
"The solution's performance, stability, and consistency could be improved."
"OpenText Extended ECM's user interface could be improved."
"A dashboard with information would be nice to see."
"User interface needs improvement (at least in the version we are using, desktop client)."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"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."
OpenText Extended ECM is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Content Management with 18 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 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, Alfresco, OpenText Content Manager and Hyland OnBase, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and Microsoft Teams. See our OpenText Extended ECM vs. SharePoint report.
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