OnBase vs. OpenText Content Suite Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OnBase
Score 7.8 out of 10
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OnBase by Hyland is an enterprise content management platform with business process and case management capabilities. It is modular by design and allows users to tailor the solution to their specific requirements.N/A
OpenText Content Suite Platform
Score 7.1 out of 10
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The OpenText Content Suite Platform oversees the lifecycle management of information across the enterprise from capture through archiving and disposition. With agile information governance to address the latest data governance and data privacy best practices, the vendor states their Content Suite reduces risk and empowers organizations to focus on using information to drive strategic growth and productivity.N/A
Pricing
OnBaseOpenText Content Suite Platform
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OnBaseOpenText Content Suite Platform
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
OnBaseOpenText Content Suite Platform
Features
OnBaseOpenText Content Suite Platform
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
OnBase
8.2
Ratings
3% above category average
OpenText Content Suite Platform
7.6
Ratings
5% below category average
Content capture & imaging9.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving9.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Document management10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Records management8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Content search & retrieval8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration8.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Content publishing & creation8.20 Ratings4.20 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance9.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management8.40 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Automated workflows9.00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Artificial intelligence5.80 Ratings4.20 Ratings
Mobile support7.60 Ratings4.90 Ratings
Integration7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
OnBaseOpenText Content Suite Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.8
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8.0
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Usability
8.6
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8.0
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Availability
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8.0
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Performance
-
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8.0
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Support Rating
5.8
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9.0
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In-Person Training
9.1
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Online Training
8.2
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Implementation Rating
8.7
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8.0
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Configurability
9.1
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
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User Testimonials
OnBaseOpenText Content Suite Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
OnBase is a content services solution for organizations that need high visibility to documents or information across multiple teams or departments. It supports users' access control, workflow functionality with transaction history, electronic document retention, and destruction documentation. Hyland can support the organization for implementations or solutions, or the organization can utilize the education services and build out the solution themselves.
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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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Pros
  • Houses documents for easy retrival.
  • Allows for simple document scanning and storage.
  • Has the ability to allow paperless document import so document do not have to scanned.
  • Makes the review and document sharing process easy.
  • Has security features that allow you to keep only the staff you want to view documents able to access them.
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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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Cons
  • The Administrator interface, while powerful, is antiquated and has so many options to chose from it can be overwhelming at times trying to find what you need in order to accomplish a task.
  • The Unity application is a work in progress and is missing out of some features that are much better in the thick client, such as scanning documents in at high volume. This has improved over time, though.
  • Hyland Onbase is a content management platform and, while it does handle ingestion and scanning processes, does require a 3rd party application to really complete the whole package. Hyland's Perceptive platform or Kofax Capture complement it greatly.
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  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
OnBase has become a core part of our enterprise solutions toolkit due to its ever-growing integration capabilities. Any business process that produces or tracks documents or object entities can be modeled and managed within OnBase and used to supplement almost any line-of-business system that we use.
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The staff is comfortable with it and I doubt they'd change at this point.
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Usability
You get out of something what you put into it. You reap what you sow! If an organization will spend time setting the solution up, dedicating staff to its development and ongoing support, and always keep the end-user in mind during development, you will have one of the most well-received solutions in your organization. So many organizations that I speak with stand up a solution but don't commit someone to its upkeep and development. It is vital that you have the staff to work within the solution on a daily basis.
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Strong for Core Content and Records Management
Effective for Non-Technical Users (with the right configuration)
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Reliability and Availability
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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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Performance
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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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Support Rating
I have had exceptional support from Hyland; however, I am a direct customer from Hyland and receive support directly from Hyland support technicians. I have heard complaints from other customers who have partner relationships as then the support is 100% driven through the partner and you are dependent on the skills and abilities of your partner corporate support team.
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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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In-Person Training
The trainer was very knowledgeable and was a Hyland employee. The training was at their corporate headquarters, so it allowed our team to become familiar with organization and culture.
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Online Training
With the Premium subscription, there is a tone of training with audio and practice options.
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Implementation Rating
Using Hyland professional services to assist with the implementation made things much easier. They have the knowledge and experience to get the system live as users are expecting
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No, it's pretty easy to implement and use.
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Alternatives Considered
IntelliChief (Quadrant product) was used as the first AP invoice workflow and content repository in 2006. Very hard to compare since I haven't used a current version. RVI - Real Vision Inc. was used for Credit/Collections documents and workflow. No way to compare Haven't had to look for a replacement for any reason since purchasing OnBase.
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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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Return on Investment
  • OnBase provides a very reliable ECM platform for the company.
  • OnBase helped to remove the dependency on paper files and file folders. This saved real estate cost as well as facilitated the ability to work from anywhere.
  • OnBase made same day processing of all incoming and outgoing documents a reality.
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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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ScreenShots

OnBase Screenshots

Screenshot of an Approval for an Ad-Hoc Task.Screenshot of Onbase's Dark Mode.Screenshot of the Document Viewer.Screenshot of the Send to Department feature.Screenshot of the Workflow Stage.