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."I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"Document repository."
"The storage of metadata content, workflows, and life cycles are the most valuable features of OpenText Documentum."
"OpenText Documentum has improved availability and performance in our organization."
"I appreciate Documentum's scalability, allowing for vast volumes of content storage."
"The most valuable feature is the management."
"Documentum is a highly scalable document management solution because it's built on a solid platform."
"It stands out for its impressive records management capabilities and the ability to handle an extensive volume of documents, even reaching into the billions."
"The product is tamper-proof and enables us to return to the document source, which is helpful in legal issues."
"OpenText Documentum's composition is good. It is convenient and straight out of the box."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"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."
"OpenText Documentum has a lot of scope for improvement in terms of adding some AI integrations."
"The main issue is the software's performance when storing around 10 million or more documents. It becomes slow and needs improvement. Perhaps it's a cloud-related issue, but it needs to be addressed. It could be due to our S3 bucket or something else. Nevertheless, this is a significant challenge we're facing."
"It needs a better UI and it should also be cloud-ready. The UI has not changed in years."
"One area for improvement in OpenText Documentum is its handling of outdated documents, especially technical ones."
"The user interface can be a bit more intuitive."
"OpenText Documentum needs to improve its support."
"The vertical application could be improved."
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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