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We performed a comparison between OpenText Documentum and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"It is a very secure system. It is reliable, and that is one of the reasons people manage their content within Documentum. It gives them the confidence that the content is accessible to the right people and not to the wrong people.""The storage of metadata content, workflows, and life cycles are the most valuable features of OpenText Documentum.""Documentum is a highly scalable document management solution because it's built on a solid platform.""It provides possibilities for us to save documents and supporting the business process while doing so.""The stability is very good.""It is quite good.""We like Documentum for its capacity and reliability.""The most valuable feature is that the documents are kept secure."

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"The product is very stable.""They are the building blocks of EAI in SAG products, and they offer a very good platform.""The stability is good.""We needed a tool that was able to orchestrate and help us configure our APIs so that we could maintain and see the heartbeat, traffic, trends, etc.""Best feature is Insight for monitoring, and as a debugging tool. It has saved us a lot of time during crisis situations.""What I like best about webMethods Integration Server is its portfolio of connectors.""webMethods Integration Server is an easy-to-use solution and does not require a lot of coding.""A product with good API and EDI components."

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Cons
"It needs a better UI and it should also be cloud-ready. The UI has not changed in years.""OpenText Documentum is moving to the cloud, and I am concerned about the security aspect of it.""The documentation often leaves customers feeling somewhat frustrated, as OpenText seems to expect customers to remind them constantly about the need for better documentation, as they don't provide clear guidance on their documentation practices.""The product needs to improve the way documents are logged together. I believe running it on the cloud or containerization will bring value to it. The tool's Time to Market and deployment cycle need to be improved. Finding suitable training materials for OpenText Documentum is also a bottleneck. If we can find the training modules easily, we can bring together people, give them quick training, and start working on the deployment. It can help with quick outputs.""The biggest issue for us is the price of the product.""The user interface can be a bit more intuitive.""OpenText Documentum has a lot of scope for improvement in terms of adding some AI integrations.""OpenText Documentum needs to improve its support."

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"This product has too many gaps. You find them after update installations. This should be covered by automatic testing.""This product is for larger companies. Compared to TIBCO I think webMethods is better in terms of ease of use and support.""In terms of improvement, it would be better if it adapted quicker to open standards. It took a while for API specification before the last version was available. The spec of version two was rather quick.""The solution has big instances when deployed under microservices or in a containerized platform. They need to improve that so that it is competitive with other integration solutions, like Redis and Kafka. Deployments under microservices with those solutions are much more lightweight, in the size of the runtime itself, compared with Software AG.""webMethods Integration Server needs to add more adapters.""When migration happens from the one release to an upgraded release from Software AG, many of the existing services are deprecated and developers have to put in effort testing and redeveloping some of the services. It would be better that upgrade releases took care to support the lower-level versions of webMethods.""We got the product via a reseller, and the support from the reseller has been less than desirable.""The initial setup of the webMethods Integration Server is not easy but it gets easier once you know it. It is tiresome but not difficult."

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  • "It is quite an expensive product."
  • "It falls in line with a lot of things that are out there on the market. There is nothing extraordinary in terms of great or bad."
  • "OpenText Documentum has announced a new licensing model, which could be more expensive."
  • "OpenText Documentum's pricing is good."
  • "The price is considered affordable now."
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  • "Initialy good pricing and good, if it comes to Enterprise license agreements."
  • "It is worth the cost."
  • "Always plan five years ahead and don’t jeopardize the quality of your project by dropping items from the bill of materials."
  • "Pricing has to be negotiated with the local Software AG representative. SAG can always prepare an appropriate pricing model for every client."
  • "Some of the licensing is "component-ized," which is confusing to new users/customers."
  • "It is expensive, but we reached a good agreement with the company. It is still a little bit expensive, but we got a better deal than the previous one."
  • "The pricing and licensing costs for webMethods are very high, which is the only reason that we might switch to another product."
  • "The vendor is flexible with respect to pricing."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It falls in line with a lot of things that are out there on the market. There is nothing extraordinary in terms of great or bad.
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Documentum for our content management needs is its ability to segregate access based on department and role.
    Top Answer:One area for improvement in OpenText Documentum is its handling of outdated documents, especially technical ones. Currently, older files remain online and clutter storage, but a new feature to offline… more »
    Top Answer:The synchronous and asynchronous messaging system the solution provides is very good.
    Top Answer:Other products have been using AI and cloud enhancements, but webMethods Integration Server is still lagging in that key area. It's very good as a standalone integration server, but it has to come up… more »
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    Also Known As
    Dell EMC Documentum, Documentum , Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform
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    Overview
    OpenText Documentum organizes, preserves and makes information
    accessible, while ensuring it adheres to all privacy and security
    protocols. Documentum manages content across file stores and integrates
    with enterprise applications, including SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft,
    to help organizations conquer information management challenges.

    Documentum provides integrated support for the entire lifecycle of a
    wide range of content; beyond typical office documents to include CAD files, design
    templates, rich media, audio, video, instant messaging threads, blog
    posts, images and more.

    webMethods Integration Server is widely considered to be the best integration server available in the marketplace today. The solution can help users integrate everything and anything.

    webMethods Integration Server allows organizations to display and integrate existing and new business activities. The solution offers components that help users create, test, and install new services. webMethods Integration Server can automate, organize, and construct various gathered services and traditional legacy systems into productive value-added processes. webMethods Integration Server works as a secure platform for distributing and running services. The solution obtains and translates user requests, recognizes and records the requested service, translates and moves the data in the necessary format, receives the information back, and returns the information to the user in the appropriate original format. webMethods is the primary solution used by enterprise organizations for integrating functional coordination with application servers, custom applications, and databases. webMethods makes it easy for enterprise organizations to share electronic documents seamlessly.

    Users have several options to audit webMethods Integration Server processes using some of the component metrics below:

    • Adapters: Using the SOA extension for webMethods, users can easily monitor the performance of every adapter users have deployed. Available metrics include Adapter Services, Adapter Connection Pools, and Adapter Notifications nodes.

    • Business Processes: A business process is a process that uses a specific set of rules to perform tasks in a prescribed order. Many business processes depend on the successful integration of numerous systems, involving many people in varying roles. With the SOA extension for webMethods, users can easily monitor that workflow, ensuring that processes are being performed as defined.

    • Java Services: This includes services created in Java or in languages coordinated with Java.

    • WebServices: This includes services regarding webserver endpoints and performance.

    • XSLT Services: This service will allow users to transform XML data into other formats and includes the transformation to other services.

    • Thread Pools: This metric uses threads to conduct services, gather documents from the webMethods Broker, and initiate triggers. Documents can be published locally on the server or to the broker that will send the document out. A JMS trigger receives inbound messages and then processes those messages accordingly.

    Reviews from Real Users:

    “There are a few things about this product that we definitely like. It is very robust. If you build it nicely, you can't go wrong with it. It's rock solid. The development is very fast. If you know what you're doing, you can develop something very easy and very fast.” - Rohit S., Integration Lead at a wellness & fitness company

    “One of the most important features is that it gives you the possibility to do low-level integration. We can meet any requirements through customizations, transformations, or the logic that needs to be put in. When clients come to me with any problem, in about 99% of cases, I say, "Yes, it is feasible to do through webMethods." It has reached such a level of flexibility and maturity. Most of the things are available out of the box, and even if something is not available out of the box, we can customize it and deliver it for a client's requirements.” - Sushant D., IT specialist at Accenture

    Sample Customers
    Agility; Bibliotheca Alexandrina; Capitec Bank; Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa; County of Los Angeles, Department of Human Resources; Fresenius Kabi; Heathrow Airport; Lahey Health; Linde PLC; Milestone Pharma Co. Ltd; National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; Open Grid Europe GmbH; REPCO NEX Industrial Solutions; Springer Nature; Syngene International; Tata Power DDL; University of Texas Austin
    Fujitsu, Coca Cola, ING, Credit Suisse, Electrolux, GTA, CosmosDirekt
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    OpenText Documentum is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Content Management with 26 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. OpenText Documentum is rated 7.8, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Documentum writes "Saves time and increases an organization's productivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". OpenText Documentum is most compared with OpenText Extended ECM, SharePoint, IBM FileNet, Hyland OnBase and Alfresco, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi AtomSphere Integration.

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