M‑Files vs. OpenText eDOCS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
M‑Files
Score 8.9 out of 10
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M-Files is a platform for knowledge work automation. M-Files helps knowledge workers to find information faster, work smarter, and achieve more. M-Files features a metadata-driven architecture, embedded workflow engine, and advanced artificial intelligence that enable customers to eliminate information chaos, improve process efficiency, and automate security and compliance. By embedding automation and GenAI into its core, M-Files' platform not only increases efficiencies…N/A
OpenText eDOCS
Score 8.1 out of 10
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OpenText eDOCS is presented as a light-footprint, cost-effective and highly-flexible enterprise content management (ECM) solution for Legal, Corporate Legal, Public Sector and Professional Service organizations and corporate law departments. eDOCS aims to ensure sensitive work product is securely managed throughout the content lifecycle, while remaining easily accessible for day-to-day operations, to enable users to deliver exceptional enterprise content services to their clients.N/A
Pricing
M‑FilesOpenText eDOCS
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
M‑FilesOpenText eDOCS
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
M‑Files
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Ratings
OpenText eDOCS
8.6
Ratings
8% above category average
Content capture & imaging00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Document management00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Records management00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Content search & retrieval00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Content publishing & creation00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Automated workflows00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Artificial intelligence00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Mobile support00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Integration00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
M‑FilesOpenText eDOCS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
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8.1
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Likelihood to Renew
9.9
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Usability
8.2
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
9.1
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Support Rating
8.0
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Online Training
9.1
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Implementation Rating
8.2
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Configurability
9.6
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Product Scalability
10.0
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Vendor post-sale
7.0
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Vendor pre-sale
7.0
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User Testimonials
M‑FilesOpenText eDOCS
Likelihood to Recommend
M‑Files is great for companies with multiple locations. Drive letters can become cumbersome to use and collaborate with colleagues and M‑Files fills that gap. The check out/check in system is great and allows only one editor at a time. This can be good and bad depending on the situation.
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OpenText is a solid platform, we enjoyed using it. Definitely would recommend it. Easy to navigate through with great support
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Pros
  • Version control and history tracking on documents.
  • Search ability to filter content for a team, creator, or another property.
  • Permission control, limit access to documents to read or edit, or only specific workflow states.
  • Administrative control to access all content.
  • Administrative control to restore deleted content.
  • Administrative control to audit and retag content when needed.
  • Robust workflow capabilities.
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  • Secure.
  • Accessibility.
  • User experience.
  • Ease of use.
  • One stop solution for all types of file/data storage.
  • Can be accessed via mobile, tablet, laptops.
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Cons
  • More user friendly customization options that do not require knowledge of coding/scripting. For example, prompting the creation of a new document from a template in a workflow.
  • When using the 'insert property' feature in a Word doc, I would love to convert dates from a mm/dd/yy format to be written out (such as September 21, 2018). Or possibly even just to pull the year or the month from a selected date to insert into a document.
  • I've often wished that I could find more detailed tutorials online for some features.
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  • New users may need help to set the features.
  • Powerful computer is needed.
  • Only professional users.
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Likelihood to Renew
M-files meets our almost all needs, we dont have other option to replace m-files. it saves lots, like Hardware because of Vault Feature means we can create many vaults (mini-servers) in m-files in other solutions we need more hardware for more installations.
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Usability
It is a powerful system that can locate content fast and effectively. The system takes quite some time to setup initially. It can be hard for M-Files support to know how businesses operate and how they want to use the system in a way that works for them. The customization makes it great for companies to cater to their own needs. Once the system is set up in a way that makes sense for the business, the user experience is positive. There is room for improvement in the notifications, workflow, and support areas.
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Reliability and Availability
always there.
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Performance
I noticed some lagging with the integration with Microsoft Office but not so much that I would not use it. It has gotten better with updates. to be fair the issues were when Office 2013 first came out.
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Support Rating
Usually when I need help from them I got support and it was very good and focused to solve my problem. I didn't have so many problems, but when used it worked. I just would like to have a support in my native language, but I can understand that sometimes is hard for the companies.
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In-Person Training
We had online conference call training with a recording to use later as needed
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Online Training
They answer all questions and record your training for later use.
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Implementation Rating
The key insight is that the most important thing is to have a open mind. The application is easy to use, but if you have a company with different views and it is not aligned could be a huge problem. So the company transformation is required together with the application. Ensure to use as much as possible the capabilities of the application helps to have best ROI.
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Alternatives Considered
I've compared recently with Box, but they still predicate their storage on WHERE instead of WHAT, which means if it isn't in a specific folder, you won't find it. Some documents may relate to multiple projects. In M-Files instead of putting a copy of a file in many folders (thus having many copies) you can build out the relationships, so there is only 1 copy of a document which prevents multiple "originals" from being developed separately.
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I have not used another electronic content management platform in my current role. OpenText eDOCS is a cost-effective and reliable product that has given the best services. The product operations have highly enhanced my team to finish many projects within the set deadline. It is easy to learn how it performs with an effective customer service team. It provides security to all stored documents with large accommodation space for volumes of documents.
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Scalability
do so much more than we need but has all the stuff we do need.
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Return on Investment
  • The price we pay for M-Files is about one third less than the price that we were paying our previous vendor plus we have a custom-built amazing dependable system with great support.
  • From a compliance and legal standpoint, our policies are always available to end users including easy access to previous versions.
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  • Pros: providing secure application so that we do not worry about security perspective much.
  • Pros : Ease of use.
  • Pros : Accessible via mobile, tablets, cloud, laptops.
  • Cons: Complex.
  • Cons : Pricing can be improved.
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ScreenShots

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