We performed a comparison between IBM ECM and M-Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."The vertical scalability, as we can use it across some of our applications."
"The content management is all about you as you can make the same content for minimal purpose solutions applications."
"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 scalability is a valuable feature, that we're able to display our documents to so many people."
"Using M-Files means anybody on the executive team to go in and immediately look at a dashboard and know the status of a contract."
"The development platform is not local. For example, you need 100 days in IBM, whereas other platforms, like ServiceNow, need only 20 days."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see seamless application integration."
"The integration with other products needs to be improved."
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IBM ECM is ranked 13th in Enterprise Content Management with 16 reviews while M-Files is ranked 8th in Document Management Software. IBM ECM is rated 8.0, while M-Files is rated 9.0. 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 M-Files writes "Good workflows, and it is easy to use with a dashboard that improves contract visibility". IBM ECM is most compared with IBM FileNet, Mobius Content Services Platform, OpenText Documentum, SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management and Alfresco, whereas M-Files is most compared with SharePoint, OpenText Extended ECM, IBM FileNet, OpenText Documentum and Microsoft Purview Records Management.
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