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We performed a comparison between SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The integration capabilities of the product are pretty good."

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"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals.""It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing.""I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well.""OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information.""SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible.""Information is much more readily available.""Helps with document collaboration and workflow.""No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."

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Cons
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

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"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised.""The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools.""SharePoint’s scalability could be improved.""Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA.""It will fully use your system resources.""The initial setup was very complex.""There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered.""The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
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  • "As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."
  • "Licensing can be by server or by seat."
  • "It is very expensive.​"
  • "The data classification and search elements are cheap."
  • "The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."
  • "We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."
  • "The cost is expensive, but worthwhile."
  • "The pricing works for us."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The integration capabilities of the product are pretty good.
    Top Answer:The prices can vary depending on the customer, region, and domain. I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price.
    Top Answer:The product's user interface is an area of concern where improvements are required. The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The tool could be made a bit more… more »
    Top Answer:Alfresco scores are high on all features of an ECM solution and tools.   Back office processing, rated as 3.36 good.  Business Process Application 3.55 Good to excellent.  Document Management 4.12… more »
    Top Answer:The pricing is competitive. That's why almost all the companies are using SharePoint. I rate the pricing a ten out of ten. When we buy the license, the person buying must be well-educated on how the… more »
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    Also Known As
    SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText, SAP Extended ECM
    SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
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    Overview

    A digital core built on the SAP HANA business data platform and integrated applications for content management comprise the next-generation business model to complete your digital transformation and help you manage unstructured content as part of the business transactions more effectively while facilitating collaboration and storing content to avoid redundancies, minimize information growth, and support regulatory compliance. The SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management application by OpenText helps you engage customers with a 360-degree view of their profile and optimize procurement processes, employee productivity, process efficiency, and equipment ROI.

    SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

    Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

    Sample Customers
    Metropolitan Utilities District, MAN Diesel & Turbo
    Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.
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    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    University8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government12%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise39%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management is ranked 14th in Enterprise Content Management with 1 review while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management is rated 9.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management writes "A stable tool with good integration capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management is most compared with Adobe Experience Manager and IBM ECM, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress.

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