Egnyte vs OpenText Extended ECM comparison

Egnyte and OpenText are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Egnyte is ranked #13, while OpenText is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.7. Egnyte holds a 6.0% mindshare in CCP, compared to OpenText’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Egnyte users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

Egnyte

Read 6 Egnyte reviews

818 Views
563 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

OpenText Extended ECM

Read 21 OpenText Extended ECM reviews

215 Views
165 Comparison Views

96% willing to recommend

Egnyte

OpenText Extended ECM

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Egnyte and OpenText Extended ECM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Egnyte vs. OpenText Extended ECM Report (Updated: March 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Egnyte vs. OpenText Extended ECM

March 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 846,617 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Egnyte

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText Extended ECM

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Egnyte is 6.0%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Extended ECM is 1.2%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Content Collaboration Platforms

Featured Reviews

John Michael

IT Specialist II - Egnyte at The Boston Consulting Group

Great search functionality and useful co-authoring capabilities with an easy setup

The best feature is the co-authoring. Before, in Egnyte desktop sync, it didn't have the capability to co-author. Now, since you have Egnyte Connect on your machine, it gives you the capability to co-author on a single file at the same time. Now that the Egnyte vendor upgraded the version and they introduced the Egnyte Connect, there are a lot of features that they added, including co-authoring. You can also access those files and folders using your mobile device, which is good. Some of our advisors don't have a desktop or laptop, so they are just accessing their files via mobile devices or tablets. Before, in Egnyte desktop sync, you could install it on a certain server. Now, with Egnyte Connect, you can install the application on a particular server, and then you can save your file from there. The initial setup is easy. It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint. The search functionality has been good. The user interface is great. Support is great. In Egnyte Connect, you can add more domains if you want to access files and folders.

Read full review

Jaideep MS

Practice Director at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Enables effective document control yet requires better affordability and clarity

I use extended ECM for procurement, sales, engineering documents, and sometimes invoices and accounts payable or receivable The version controls and the business workspace part integrate well with SAP and OpenText, providing granular level control over who accesses the workspace. The seamless…

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."

"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."

"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."

"It is scalable and stable."

"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."

"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."

"It is a good storage solution."

"The integration of a document management platform with many other applications, e.g. SAP, SuccessFactors, Salesforce, SharePoint, etc."

"An SAP user can store documents directly into OpenText without a connector."

"The ability to add metadata and use that to categorize information is a valuable feature of OpenText Extended ECM."

"The version controls and the business workspace part integrate well with SAP and OpenText, providing granular level control over who accesses the workspace."

"WebReports has a lot of capabilities that offer good opportunities to customize the applications the way we want to."

"The tool's most valuable features are document storage, security, and compliance."

"The engineering document management system is one of the most valuable features."

"We use Core Share to share documents with external auditors or with vendors, and that prevents them from being able to get into the whole system. It is useful."

More OpenText Extended ECM pros

Cons

"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."

"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."

"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."

"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."

"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."

"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."

"More out-of-the-box automation features should be added to OpenText Extended ECM."

"The architecture needs improvement, as it's complex."

"Pricing could be improved and the stability or the performance needs improvement, which is very important."

"We are looking for new, advanced UI features. Currently, the UI does not look great."

"A dashboard with information would be nice to see."

"The solution's performance, stability, and consistency could be improved."

"Initially there can be stability issues due to unknown factors such as usage of the system, quantity of documents ingested, load during peak hours."

"I have not used it enough to start running into issues. Some of my technical guys could name a couple of things, but in terms of support, we did have challenges getting good responses from them."

More OpenText Extended ECM cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."

"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."

"The product is pricey."

"The solution is expensive."

"The pricing is costly. It's costly to integrate with Office 365 and to go back and forth with the sales team."

"OpenText Extended ECM's pricing and licensing are aggressive and confusing for the end customer."

"The total cost of the product will vary on the capabilities required"

"The licensing is not that complex for the core products, but it becomes more complicated for some additional modules."

"The tool's pricing is confusing to the end customer."

"Both Open Text ECM and IBM File share are expensive."

More OpenText Extended ECM pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Content Collaboration Platforms solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

846,617 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

54%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Ask a question

Earn 20 points

What do you like most about OpenText Content Suite Platform?

We also have a module on top of the Content Server called WebReports that has been one of the things that helped us facilitate the workflow and give managers good reporting and visibility into wher...

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenText Content Suite Platform?

The cost is a significant factor that may deter medium-sized businesses from using OpenText extended ECM.

See all answers

What needs improvement with OpenText Content Suite Platform?

The cost of the product could be improved. Currently, there are certain snags in document viewing, and communication from the pre-sales team is not clear. The expectation from the customer versus t...

See all answers

Comparisons

Nasuni vs Egnyte

Compared 27% of the time

Box vs Egnyte

Compared 16% of the time

ShareFile vs Egnyte

Compared 16% of the time

SharePoint vs Egnyte

Compared 11% of the time

LucidLink vs Egnyte

Compared 11% of the time

More Egnyte Competitors

OpenText Documentum vs OpenText Extended ECM

Compared 21% of the time

SharePoint vs OpenText Extended ECM

Compared 19% of the time

IBM FileNet vs OpenText Extended ECM

Compared 15% of the time

OpenText Content Manager vs OpenText Extended ECM

Compared 7% of the time

Alfresco vs OpenText Extended ECM

Compared 7% of the time

More OpenText Extended ECM Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Egnyte

April 2025

Download Egnyte product report

Buyer's Guide

OpenText Extended ECM

March 2025

Download OpenText Extended ECM product report

Also Known As

No data available

OpenText Content Suite Platform, OpenText Core Share

Overview

Egnyte is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides online file sharing, file transfer, and cross-office syncing solutions to small, medium, and large businesses. The company specializes in providing businesses with customizable solutions using both cloud-only technology and local storage. Businesses using Egnyte's services benefit from increased efficiency, reliable security, and removal of communication barriers. Egnyte, like many of its competitors, features customizable services that help businesses stay organized and productive while maintaining a high level of security. In order to provide uninterrupted levels of security, Egnyte only allows access to files though certificate-based trusted devices via a two-step login verification process. Egnyte offers businesses control over its services with the ability to monitor use and access information through a single, user-friendly control panel, which is accessible in any web browser. The Egnyte platform is able to integrate with local storage, providing businesses with the option of using cloud-based storage or local devices, depending upon security preferences. Companies with satellite locations or remote employees benefit from Egnyte's flexible deployment models, scalable file sharing, and high speed collaboration capabilities regardless of changes in bandwidth limitations across locations. Additionally, Egnyte's platform makes use of hybrid storage synchronization, which reduces bandwidth saturation and increases performance. Egnyte appeals to growing businesses because it offers customizable services and flexible file sharing solutions. Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's International Realty, with over 275 agents and employees spread throughout the Atlanta metro area, was struggling to increase the efficiency of staff communication. After working with Egnyte, Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's International Realty was able to develop a hybrid file sharing infrastructure that allowed for the syncing and sharing of large files, protection of confidential information, and a reduction in bandwidth use.

Egnyte

OpenText Extended ECM (formerly OpenText Content Suite Platform) is an enterprise content management platform that securely governs the information lifecycle by integrating with leading enterprise applications, such as SAP, Microsoft 365, Salesforce and SAP SuccessFactors. Bringing content and processes together, Extended ECM provides access to information when and where it’s needed, improves decision-making and drives operational effectiveness.

OpenText

Sample Customers

M&C Saatchi, FMC Technologies, Learfield Communications Inc., Aerohive Networks, Devcon, Semperian, Balfour Beatty Construction, Red Bull

ATCO Australia, MSIG Asia, Orica, Salt River Project

Buyer's Guide

Egnyte vs. OpenText Extended ECM

March 2025

Free Report: Egnyte vs. OpenText Extended ECM

Find out what your peers are saying about Egnyte vs. OpenText Extended ECM and other solutions. Updated: March 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

846,617 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Egnyte vs. OpenText Extended ECM report.

See our list of best Content Collaboration Platforms vendors.

We monitor all Content Collaboration Platforms reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.