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OpenText Extended ECM pros and cons

Vendor: OpenText
3.9 out of 5
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PROS

OpenText Extended ECM offers seamless integration with applications like SAP, SuccessFactors, Salesforce, and SharePoint, facilitating document storage without a connector.
The system demonstrates scalability, allowing horizontal and vertical extension across multiple areas to match evolving demands.
It includes valuable search functionality, enabling powerful document retrieval, including specific text searches that enhance efficiency.
The permissions and security models provide robust capabilities to manage and protect document access and compliance effectively.
OpenText Extended ECM offers impressive customization and extensibility features, allowing configuration per industry and customer requirements through modules like WebReports.

CONS

Initially, there can be stability issues due to unknown factors such as system usage, document quantity, and peak hour loads.
The architecture is complex, requiring improvement.
Pricing is high, and both stability and performance need enhancement.
The annotation tool lags behind other tools in terms of features, making document management challenging.
Documentation is inadequate, with missing information on steps and setup complexity.
 

OpenText Extended ECM Pros review quotes

reviewer2297793 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
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 where everything is. Being able to use that on top of the Content Server was a big help.
reviewer2297748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
Being able to search is valuable. Its search is pretty powerful. We are able to search for specific text, and it points us to the document that has that text. That is pretty powerful.
RM
Oct 20, 2023
Retention is useful. I have been pleased with the search functionality and the extensibility for tying it into integrations with other systems and building workflows on top of it.
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reviewer2297802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
WebReports has a lot of capabilities that offer good opportunities to customize the applications the way we want to.
Mukesh Giri - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 10, 2024
The engineering document management system is one of the most valuable features.
Kathiravan Rajendran - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
Smart Viewing videos are most valuable for the end users. The end users like the look and feel of Smart View. It's similar to SharePoint, with the latest HTML5 features, filters, and everything. It's like online shopping.
JL
Oct 20, 2023
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.
Nagaraj Appavoo - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
The solution's automatic document numbering, state management, and process flow are very useful features to go through the full cycle of the document.
Jaclyn Turner - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
Being able to tag metadata on documents and being able to have different workspaces in there for our documents is valuable. We do loan documents, and different types of documents have different types of retentions. We are able to categorize based on that, and we are able to do tag searching to find what we are looking for.
AC
Oct 4, 2020
It's a very good solution.
 

OpenText Extended ECM Cons review quotes

reviewer2297793 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
When it comes to addressing complex use cases, three or four years ago, we ended up purchasing an additional OpenText product called AppWorks because we started to run into some limitations with the workflow that can be done in Extended ECM. It was a little limiting, so we ended up getting another product.
reviewer2297748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
The annotation tool needs improvement. In other tools, such as Hyland OnBase, you can easily do annotation. You can easily merge documents. You can easily compare documents, whereas with OpenText, it seems to be a challenge.
RM
Oct 20, 2023
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.
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reviewer2297802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
The initial setup can get really complicated, and it takes time.
Mukesh Giri - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 10, 2024
More out-of-the-box automation features should be added to OpenText Extended ECM.
Kathiravan Rajendran - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
We had some issues with scalability in the production. So, I would rate it a five out of ten.
JL
Oct 20, 2023
There are no additional features that I would like to see. I am pretty happy with it, but their support could be a bit better.
Nagaraj Appavoo - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
The solution's performance, stability, and consistency could be improved.
Jaclyn Turner - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
A dashboard with information would be nice to see.
AC
Oct 4, 2020
Pricing could be improved and the stability or the performance needs improvement, which is very important.