We performed a comparison between IBM ECM and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."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 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 scalability is a valuable feature, that we're able to display our documents to so many people."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"Tech support tops off as excellent."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"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 development platform is not local. For example, you need 100 days in IBM, whereas other platforms, like ServiceNow, need only 20 days."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"Replication needs improvement."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"The product must provide more automation."
IBM ECM is ranked 13th in Enterprise Content Management with 16 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. IBM ECM is rated 8.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". IBM ECM is most compared with IBM FileNet, Mobius Content Services Platform, OpenText Documentum, SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management and Alfresco, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress.
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