NetDocuments vs. OpenText Content Suite Platform

NetDocuments positioned itself to work in the legal industry, and it has done a very good job. It's kept pace with the challenges presented by the law and it's grown in its offerings. Any organization that must balance mobility and security would benefit from the use of NetDocuments as a platform.

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Your organisation has to support the type of document and records management needed for this to work. In an organisation that only needs to store documents and maybe share with many different parties, this might not be the best-suited software. In a large organisation with stringent document and records management policies, this suite is well suited. It makes management of documents across business units easy to manage and control.

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• File Organization. Netdocuments is a great tool to neatly organize your virtual files and separate them by workspaces (matters). Each workspace contains folders (document types) that can be customized according to users' needs and preference.
• Searching your data base. All the documents and emails saved in Netdocuments are searchable. The search feature works great.
• Cloud based document management system. Simply put, Netdocuments can be accessed from ANY web-enabled device. This is becoming more and more important in the age of satellite offices, working on-the-go, and telecommuting.
• Disaster preparedness. Should something happen to your office, your documents are safe, secure and accessible.
• Seamless integration with Microsoft Applications. Netdocuments provides users with Microsoft applications integrations that can be easily installed on each individual machine.
• Support. There is an extensive on-line help library which provides incredibly helpful articles with step-by-step instructions. If you cannot find solution on-line, telephone support is staffed by courteous and knowledgeable people.
• Security. This is especially important for a law firm. A designated administrator can put in force workspace, folder, document, or profile-based security.

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• ECM OpenText version is secure and easy to use
• The different versions makes it easy to accomplish different tasks . We have more than three versions deployed in our company
• The software is highly scalable
• There are many customization options
• The software is relatively affordable

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• In my opinion, VERY Expensive. You can not find documents without OCR. OCR doubles your storage cost as they save the OCRd document as a second version.
• In my experience, very annoying latency, even when trying to preview documents. As a result, folks in my office often try to save locally as opposed to storing in the cloud.
• I orginally signed up for NDMax. However, it would only process one document at a time. I am not a transactional firm, so, in my opinion, this was essentially worthless.

• The user interface and configurability of that interface lack a lot of flexibility and modern tools.
• There needs to be stronger and more powerful integration to electronic forms and workflow capabilities which are core to modern ECM.
• Management of audit and content history needs to be modernized and made more dynamic and sustainable.

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The staff is comfortable with it and I doubt they'd change at this point.

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The product is simple to learn and adheres to well-known web user protocols. The NetDocuments team spends a lot of time talking to customers regarding how to improve their interface, and are pretty quick about implementing good ideas. The system is reliable and repeatable, and similar functions are laid out consistently and in formats that users are used to.

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Strong for Core Content and Records Management
Effective for Non-Technical Users (with the right configuration)

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I never had any issues with access internally or via VPN. But, the response via VPN, was a bit slow.

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NetDocuments is a performant web app. It is reliable and provides all the functionality of a sophisticated document management system. It also can serve, through its APIs, as a base system for other applications, which enhances its value. Other vendors find the company easy to work with, and it consistently seems to be the first to offer new features and technologies to its customers.

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• I used OpenText nearly every day and I never had any performance issues that I can recall. That said, it's not terribly fast either.

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I've never had to contact support, but I won't give it a ten. We've had a few hiccups along the way, but nothing that couldn't be fixed within 24 hours.

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OpenText has an outstanding support and knowledge base. All problems which couldn't be solved by us (high complexity cases) were promptly resolved and the resolution also shared with us.

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No, it's pretty easy to implement and use.

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WatchDox and WorldDox both provided what looked like similar features but too much of the technical requirements fall on the customer and they, at the time of my evaluation, were not true cloud products. They were client \ server-based product hosted in the cloud. If you do not know the difference, research until you do. iManger is a viable alternative if you are just not able to get the internet speed you need for NetDocuments. But heads up it is not the Swiss Army knife for security features like NetDocuments.

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OpenText comes in different versions and you are able to choose depending on your departmental or organizational needs. In terms of functionality and capabilities, it was able to offer more value as it checked all the boxes in terms of long-time retentions, reporting capabilities, physical objects, and searches are great.

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• Allowed the elimination of large amounts of in-house storage and the support required to maintain it.
• Eliminated the need for backups and disaster recovery for large amounts of data.
• Enabled secure remote access wherever the Internet is present.
• Provided enhanced security without the necessity of a large number of people and infrastructure.

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• With OpenText Content Suite, we save time thanks to its features such as imaging
• Mobile support is amazing and this makes working anywhere easy
• Since it is very secure, we do not have to worry about content
• The collaboration features make it even better by improving the user experience.

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