Epicor ECM vs. OpenText Content Suite Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Epicor ECM
Score 5.6 out of 10
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Epicor ECM is based on docStar, a document management software offering that was acquired by Epicor in 2017.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
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Epicor ECMOpenText Content Suite Platform
Considered Both Products
Epicor ECM
Chose Epicor ECM
DocStar has more options and security levels and better OCR capability.
Chose Epicor ECM
Briefly evaluated Veeam before settling on new DMS that had these features. That product looked outstanding, but couldn't justify the duplication of costs for similar results. Did not get a lot of chance to use it, but the mobile availability to access the console looked great …
Chose Epicor ECM
This was the software that was chosen for the company before I was employed.
Chose Epicor ECM
A former employee of our company chose DocStar after much research and Q&A with the DocStar seller. I believe she truly put a lot of time/effort into choosing this system, but the end result is that it is not a good match for our company. After reviewing her notes, I believe …
OpenText Content Suite Platform
Chose OpenText Content Suite Platform
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 …
Chose OpenText Content Suite Platform
OpenText Content Suite Platform replaced an existing Records Management solution and checked all of the boxes in regards to capabilities surrounding search, physical objects, long-term retention, and reporting capabilities.
Chose OpenText Content Suite Platform
Having used OpenText Content Suite for a long time, I can say it stands the competition. It offers many versions which is unlike many products in its category. Also, while it is not affordable, I believe the cost is justified considering what a business can achieve with this …
Chose OpenText Content Suite Platform
OpenText Content Suite has been an amazing addition to our business thanks to its many features and capabilities. The fact that OpenText offers many versions makes its products competitive because there is so much we can accomplish with these products. Price wise, OpenText …
Chose OpenText Content Suite Platform
OpenText is stronger in the management of high volume and secure information. However, SharePoint, while less functional from a document management perspective, provides a much stronger user interface which eases user adoption and the presentation of content. SharePoint also …
Chose OpenText Content Suite Platform
SharePoint is not very strong on records management as part of the base system. So after evaluation, it was found to not comply to all needs and therefore discarded. We also evaluated Afresco which is an opensource offering. The problem was that we could not find enough people …
Chose OpenText Content Suite Platform
I also used Tridion while at AP. It's tougher to learn (HTML knowledge is very helpful), but it is a much more powerful CMS. Tridion allows for language variation, more customization and the embedding of HD video. OpenText was a legacy system of our internal site. Tridion was …
Chose OpenText Content Suite Platform
In my opinion, OpenText Content Suite Platform provides more powerful product and highly integrated solutions more than OCR solution that Abbyy provides.
I think OpenText Content Suite Platform obviously provides stronger support and services that Abbyy support and services …
Features
Epicor ECMOpenText Content Suite Platform
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Epicor ECM
9.4
Ratings
17% 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 management9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Records management10.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Content search & retrieval10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration9.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Content publishing & creation9.00 Ratings4.20 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance9.90 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management9.00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Automated workflows9.90 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Artificial intelligence9.00 Ratings4.20 Ratings
Mobile support10.00 Ratings4.90 Ratings
Integration9.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Epicor ECMOpenText Content Suite Platform
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Usability
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Availability
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Performance
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Support Rating
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Implementation Rating
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User Testimonials
Epicor ECMOpenText Content Suite Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for billing service storage and retrieval. It ends the need to pay extra for a storage space. It also makes for easy cleanup of files on a yearly basis.
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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
  • Templates - By being able to create templates for each document type, it made organizing files much easier. It also made the titles similar in format, which also allows for better organization.
  • We were able to scan documents directly into docStar, which helped us eliminate extra steps. For example, if we were missing a page from a document, and we received it at a later time, we could scan just that page into docStar as opposed to scanning the entire document again.
  • The functionalities are straight forward, so it is not hard to use the docStar system.
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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 procedure to save documents is cumbersome -- too many steps.
  • The naming process is not intuitive.
  • Emailing large documents from DocStar can be impossible -- if a document is large, we sometimes are unable to email it from DocStar.
  • Customer support has not been good. Training is confusing, and even after training sessions, we do not fully comprehend how to use the software.
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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
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The staff is comfortable with it and I doubt they'd change at this point.
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Usability
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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
Our support for DocStar has been phenomenal! They are always prompt, courteous, and effective. We have never had a bad experience with the support staff and they are always available when we need their help.
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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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Implementation Rating
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No, it's pretty easy to implement and use.
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Alternatives Considered
Briefly evaluated Veeam before settling on new DMS that had these features. That product looked outstanding, but couldn't justify the duplication of costs for similar results. Did not get a lot of chance to use it, but the mobile availability to access the console looked great and easy to use.
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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
  • We have saved almost 10,000 dollars a year just in toner cost. We had to implement some up front cost for tablets and other computer aspects but the initial cost of this was about 3,000 to 4,000 dollars. docStar has saved us an instrumental amount of money and will so in the future as well.
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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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