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."The tool's most valuable features are document storage, security, and compliance."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"It has made us faster and more efficient."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"A dashboard with information would be nice to see."
"OpenText Extended ECM's user interface could be improved."
"There are no additional features that I would like to see. I am pretty happy with it, but their support could be a bit better."
"The tool's documentation is not proper and has missing information like steps."
"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."
"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 solution should work better with partners and be more developer-friendly."
"We are looking for new, advanced UI features. Currently, the UI does not look great."
"The navigation is confusing."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"Make it more intuitive."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."
"The solution should be made more user-friendly for technical and business people."
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, Alfresco and OpenText Content Manager, 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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