We performed a comparison between OpenText Documentum 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 most valuable features of this solution are the security, storage, and document search capability."
"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."
"The product is tamper-proof and enables us to return to the document source, which is helpful in legal issues."
"It has reduced the amount of paper documents; reducing time and errors in the process."
"Two things are excellent in Documentum. One is business process management. The other is its support for metadata."
"We primarily use it for storing documents. We host a variety of documents in OpenText Documentum. This includes raw files, analyzed files, and documents in multiple formats."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"Information is much more readily available."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"The initial setup is easy."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"OpenText Documentum needs to improve its support."
"We mostly use the Life Sciences package. That package is somewhat dated. There should be enhancements to the Life Science package and additional offerings to support pharma in particular."
"The vertical application could be improved."
"The user interface can be a bit more intuitive."
"An area that needs to improve is how to reduce storage space on the AWS site."
"OpenText Documentum has a lot of scope for improvement in terms of adding some AI integrations."
"I would like to see performance improvements, especially regarding slow response times."
"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."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
OpenText Documentum is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Content Management with 26 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. OpenText Documentum is rated 7.8, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText Documentum writes "Saves time and increases an organization's productivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". OpenText Documentum is most compared with OpenText Extended ECM, IBM FileNet, Hyland OnBase, Alfresco and OpenText Content Manager, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and IBM FileNet. See our OpenText Documentum vs. SharePoint report.
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