TrustRadius Insights for OpenText Documentum are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Recommendations
Users of the Open Text web app have made several recommendations based on their experiences. The three most common recommendations are:
Stay true to document management standards before creating a system: Users recommend ensuring that the system adheres to established document management standards in order to maintain accuracy and efficiency.
Explore other options before choosing Documentum: While some users find Documentum to be a good repository for saving documents and data, they suggest considering other interfaces that may offer more efficient solutions.
Consider PLM tools as an alternative: Users suggest that Agile and Arena, among other PLM tools, may be better than Documentum for managing documents. However, if a PLM tool is not an option, Documentum is considered the best out-of-the-box tool available.
It is important to note that while some users recommend Documentum for its record management and documentation capabilities, others caution about high maintenance costs and the need for skilled labor. Additionally, users suggest negotiating pricing and packages, having experienced implementors and administrators, evaluating flexibility in accommodating changes, and considering long-term vision and investment. Some users even recommend using Documentum in specific browsers or replacing it with a more robust platform for web content management.
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OpenText Documentum Reviews
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Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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As a consultant I work with a variety of organizations in various industries, assisting them with the implementation of EMC's Documentum platform. Our projects have ranged from single departments to global corporate roll-outs. Use cases ranged from simple document version control to fully automated Event Management and content publishing environments.
Pros
Documentum's backend repository engine is probably one of the most robust, best-designed repository's currently available. While other vendors seem to constantly release new "implementations", Documentum's design has remained virtually unchanged since it was first released, yet it continues to address the content management needs of users.
Although there are many document and content management platforms available today, Documentum probably has the largest collection of modules to address varying functional needs.
Recent releases of Documentum have provided significant improvements in user-friendly development and configuration tools, making it easier to rapidly configure and deploy applications based on the Documentum platform
Documentum provides a large number of interfaces and APIs for managing the application as well as for building custom solutions/add-ons. This makes it an extremely flexible platform that can be used to build most any kind of application
Documentum's support infrastructure and the general online community is well established and broad
Cons
In the past some of Documentum's add-ons have been very difficult to use (e.g. Documentum for Outlook) and difficult to configure (e.g. ADTS and MTS).
Due to the inherent complexity of some of the add-on modules, it was likely (at least in early releases of some of these modules) that they contained difficult to isolate bugs and other anomalies. The good news is that EMC's Support Teams provide relatively good and rapid service to assist with the resolution of such issues
Documentation is probably Documentum's weakest feature. Although significant amounts of documentation are available for all components, and there are very few items/aspects that are NOT documented, the organization of the documentation sometimes makes it difficult to find what you are looking for at times.
In the past, as new add-ons were created and released, some of these ended up being short-lived (either due to users not adopting them or if it was found that the implementation was questionable). Depending on the solution, it may be advisable not to be a "first-adopter" and wait to see what happens to it before deploying it.
Likelihood to Recommend
Documentum can be applied to almost any use-case/scenario due to its flexibility and modularity. However, it does require a significant level of investment and so is probably not ideal for very small implementations.