FileCloud vs. OpenText Content Suite Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
FileCloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
FileCloud is a secure content collaboration platform (CCP) that provides compliance, data governance, data leak protection, data retention and digital rights management capabilities. Workflow automation and granular control of content sharing across most enterprise platforms is fully integrated into the complete CCP stack. The platform offers file sharing, sync, and mobile access capabilities on public, private, and hybrid clouds. FileCloud is headquartered in Austin, Texas and…
$40
per user
OpenText Content Suite Platform
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
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
FileCloudOpenText Content Suite Platform
Editions & Modules
FileCloud
$40
per user
FileCloud Online
$96
per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FileCloudOpenText Content Suite Platform
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSelf-hosted FileCloud requires a starter pack ($999 per year) and it comes with 20 users. Additional users are charged at 40$ per user. FileCloud Online requires a minimum of 5 users ($480 per year). It comes with 1 TB storage and you can have upto 5 users.
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Community Pulse
FileCloudOpenText Content Suite Platform
Considered Both Products
FileCloud
Chose FileCloud
The one thing FileCloud has over all other cloud products I have used such as OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box is that you are hosting everything on your own server. You don't have to rely on Microsoft or any other company to maintain the servers and hope that they don't have a large …
Chose FileCloud
Their product is actively being updated and has better integration with the Mac platform which Varonis Datanywhere was lacking. In addition, the pricing is substantially cheaper than that compared for Varonis and FileCloud has more capabilities to sync, access, and download the …
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
FileCloudOpenText Content Suite Platform
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
FileCloud
7.2
Ratings
10% below category average
OpenText Content Suite Platform
7.6
Ratings
5% below category average
File sync, storage & archiving8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Document management8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Content search & retrieval6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration7.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance7.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Content capture & imaging00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Records management00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Content publishing & creation00 Ratings4.20 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Automated workflows00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Artificial intelligence00 Ratings4.20 Ratings
Mobile support00 Ratings4.90 Ratings
Integration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
FileCloudOpenText Content Suite Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.0
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Usability
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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
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9.0
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Implementation Rating
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8.0
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User Testimonials
FileCloudOpenText Content Suite Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
FileCloud is perfect for an environment where they have to adhere to certain audit requirements and where it forces companies to keep their data on-premise. Doing this, companies can still do all of their DLP scans, File Integrity Management, and other things and still make their data easily accessible via HTTPS or other means like FileCloud Drive. If a company is able to utilize cloud-based storage such as Dropbox, One Drive, etc. Then perhaps FileCloud would not be as suited for that particular company.
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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
  • Access internal file server data from anywhere on the planet with an internet connection.
  • Send out emails with expiration dates, password links, and access control.
  • Ability to send out attachments that are over the email limits for downloading.
  • It integrates with NTFS and Active Directory.
  • Integration plugin for Outlook and Office applications.
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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
  • Updates need to be more apparent to FileCloud Drive
  • Uninstall/Reinstall was needed to fix most issues
  • Cost
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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
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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
The one thing FileCloud has over all other cloud products I have used such as OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box is that you are hosting everything on your own server. You don't have to rely on Microsoft or any other company to maintain the servers and hope that they don't have a large issue to where you can't access your files. As long as you can access your server, you can get to your files.
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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
  • Allowed us to share our files easily
  • Allowed us to manage our cloud shares as we saw fit
  • The need to uninstall/reinstall after every other update was a little time consuming
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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

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