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.
OpenText provides for the automation of invoice verification, automated invoice data field processing, management, approval routing, and check processing with SAP on the backend. Specifically, OpenText ECM provided the workflow, group, and role-based controls to streamline and automate the process of Accounts Payable by allowing an automated bridge between OCR and image scanning, and processing the data collected from these steps by intelligently foldering, permissioning, routing (via workflow) and processing for errors.
Pros
It's good at integration with external systems through standard industry supported APIs, including but not limited to web services integration and file system integration.
Good support from major up and downstream technologies such as image capturing and back end ERP, Database, and HR.
Highly configurable.
Very fast searching capabilities.
Highly scalable.
Cons
Better market penetration and streamlined licensing.
Better documentation and training offerings.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's my favorite enterprise document management tool, and is the most capable of the batch.
EMC Documentum ECM products are being used across the company I am currently assigned as consultant. It is used globally within the company, and primarily for archiving/storing data, applying retention and managing content within the Research and Development department. It addresses problems of managing content for easy retrieval, storage, applying retention - the whole document life cycle.
Pros
For transaction based content management, xCP product from Documentum product suite works excellent, supporting easy and fast development, huge throughput and integration with other products, like scanners etc.
Documentum Content Server is probably the most robust and most advanced in the ECM field, which does an excellent job out of the box but provides much of extensions to be developed for specific client needs. Yet, for companies that don't require so many features, there are definitely cheaper solutions that gets the basic ECM work done.
Newly changed interface approach for xCP and D2 products are quite appealing to customers and very fast, when in comparison with web based applications. Yet, with Documentum 7, even wdk is faster and more robust.
Cons
WDK framework has been the biggest drawbacks from the application speed point of view, as well as client complexity and not so natural look and feel. Yes, with the latest releases much of these features are improved.
EMC is very expensive to buy, own and support, where some products require many dependent Docuemntum products to be installed to work at its best.
Likelihood to Recommend
What are the document volume, the throughput - currently and expected in year, 3 years etc.? Is the company doing content management on international level, where access from multiple locations is needed - then Documentum can be good investment. What ECM system will be used for - document storage, document lifecycle or retention? Or all of the above? - Documentum works very well if all 3 items are combined, yet for storage there must be cheaper and more easily adaptable solutions available.