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OpenText eDOCS

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What is OpenText eDOCS?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features OpenText eDOCS has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Document management

    Beyond capture, the ECM supports sharing, distributing, printing, faxing, etc.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Records management

    Secure, policy-controlled and compliant storage, retrieval and production of records, transactional or otherwise.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Content search & retrieval

    Helps users find the content they are looking for. Various methods for assistance include filters, tags, metadata, and the like.

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Enterprise content collaboration

    ECM support file and content sharing within the enterprise, or integrate with preferred collaboration software or modules. May also be referred to as social intranet.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Security, risk management & information governance

    Security controls with rules, policies, and permissions defining and delimiting access to content and records. This is a core feature, and a necessity for enterprises.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Automated workflows

    Automated workflows include contract management, invoice processing, etc.

    Category average: 7.8

Reviews

What users are saying about OpenText eDOCS.
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Cost effective and firm document management software.

Incentivized
Jason StakerView profile
Project Manager in Marketing at Elite Digital (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Content management has been the greatest role played by OpenText eDOCS. It allows me to prepare and edit any document in the project before publishing. It has effective proofreading features that highlight errors in any content to enhance better reflections. It can be maintained with minimal cost with a flexible user interface. It has the capability to transfer files automatically once they have been approved to a suitable destination.

Pros

  • Transfer of files.
  • Content proofreading.
  • Document saving and management.

Cons

  • The performance and user interface have enhanced commendable job.
  • I have no problem with operations.
  • No new feature that can affect our job.

Most Important Features

  • Cloud storage backup.
  • Electronic document management system.
  • Quick search integrated tool.

Return on Investment

  • We have highly benefited from positive ROI.
  • Our content management objectives have been achieved.

Document Editing and Flexible File Management Package.

Incentivized
Ellie WalkerView profile
.NET Software Engineer in Information Technology at Grupo Printer (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OpenText eDOCS is an excellent file categorization and document management and document editing software. Its features are easy to customize and get started working with OpenText eDOCS. Project files access through OpenText eDOCS is very simple and reliable reports from the OpenText eDOCS features and even the integration capability is the most effective for multiple file import and export of other documents to different documents management platforms.

Pros

  • Easy file categorization.
  • File transfer.
  • Documents access is easy.

Cons

  • New users may need help to set the features.
  • Powerful computer is needed.
  • Only professional users.

Most Important Features

  • Documents transfer tools.
  • File editing features.
  • File organizing tool.
  • Collaboration.

Return on Investment

  • Managing multiple document is very easy.
  • Creating reports is quite effective.
  • Documents collaboration.

Other Software Used

Dokmee ECM, Accusoft PrizmDoc, Google Forms

OpenText - good value for money

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Quality Assurance (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OpenText is primarily used for software management in our company. More specifically used to maintain legacy applications used in our organization as we transition.

Pros

  • Good handling of customer service
  • Easy to manage your account payments
  • very strong community support (blogs) with plenty of useful info

Cons

  • Their learning services could improve
  • The cloud management isn't the best in the market

Most Important Features

  • Customer service
  • Helpful support team
  • Easy to manage accounts

Return on Investment

  • Lowered our maintenance activities on eDocs
  • Document management turnaround time was reduced
  • Takes less effort to publish

OpenText - enterprise document management system

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Open Text eDOCS is an enterprise content management system that is used in my organization. It is a complete document management system enabling holistic content management - from searching and storing to organising. It is easy to integrate with other platforms and applications, like Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook emails).

Pros

  • Integration with a multitude of platforms.
  • Enhance productivity.
  • Provide effective security controls.

Cons

  • User interface.
  • Speed.

Most Important Features

  • Integration with other platforms.
  • Access on a need-to-know-basis.
  • Comprehensive audit trail.

Return on Investment

  • Improve resilience.
  • Economies of scale.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft SharePoint

Other Software Used

Microsoft SharePoint, Tableau Desktop, Microsoft Power BI, Azure Blob Storage

One Stop solution for accessing data - OpenText eDocs

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Problem Statement for organisation:
How to securely save our docs as well as it should be easily accessible without any security concern.

Pros:
1. Secure.
2. One-stop solution for all types of file/data storage.
3. Accessibility of data.
4. Ease of use/Flexibility to use.
5. Better user Experience.

Pros

  • Secure.
  • Accessibility.
  • User experience.
  • Ease of use.
  • One stop solution for all types of file/data storage.
  • Can be accessed via mobile, tablet, laptops.

Cons

  • Price.
  • Performance can be improved.
  • Should be Stable enough for users.
  • Complex to understand.

Most Important Features

  • Security.
  • Accessibility via mobile, tablets, laptops, cloud (we can store and use it from anywhere).
  • Ease of use.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Box, Atlassian Confluence and Jira Software

Other Software Used

Box, Jira Software, Atlassian Confluence